A/RES/48/247 Page 2 Bearing in mind the special responsibilities of the States permanent members of the Security Council, as indicated in General Assembly resolution 1874 (S-IV) of 27 June 1963, in the financing of such operations, Noting with appreciation that voluntary contributions have been made to the Liberian peace process by certain Governments, Mindful of the fact that it is essential to provide the Observer Mission with the necessary financial resources to enable it to fulfil its responsibilities under the relevant resolutions of the Security Council, 1. Takes note of the status of contributions to the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia as at 24 March 1994, including the contributions outstanding in the amount of 26,411,962 United States dollars; 2. Expresses concern about the deteriorating financial situation with regard to peace-keeping activities due to overdue payments by Member States of their assessments, particularly Member States in arrears; 3. Reaffirms its resolution 48/227 of 23 December 1993 and stresses the need for the Secretariat to submit budget documents in time in order to allow for a proper and thorough review and approval by the General Assembly of the budgets before their implementation; 4. Reaffirms also the importance of the role of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions as an advisory body to the General Assembly in the budget process; 5. Endorses the observations and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee, 2/ subject to the provisions of the present resolution; 6. Requests the Secretary-General to take all necessary action to ensure that all United Nations activities related to the Liberian peace process, including the upcoming elections, are administered in a coordinated fashion with a maximum of efficiency and economy and, in particular, to implement fully the economy, financial and efficiency measures to be approved during the resumed forty-eighth session in accordance with relevant mandates of the Security Council; 7. Urges those Member States which have not paid their assessed contributions to the Observer Mission to do so promptly and in full; 8. Affirms that it expects that the Secretariat will make appropriate arrangements to ensure that the General Assembly is not asked to take any future decisions on budgets for peace-keeping operations retroactively; 9. Decides to appropriate to the Special Account referred to in General Assembly decision 48/478 an amount of 32,797,100 dollars gross (32,225,100 dollars net), authorized and apportioned in accordance with that decision, for the maintenance of the Observer Mission from 22 September 1993 to 21 April 1994; 10. Decides also, with regard to the period beyond 21 April 1994, to authorize the Secretary-General to enter into commitments at a monthly rate not to exceed 4,359,100 dollars gross (4,232,900 dollars net), for a period of three months, in connection with the maintenance of the Observer Mission, should the Security Council decide to continue the Mission beyond that date, and to apportion the amount of 7,520,900 dollars gross (7,335,700 dollars net) among Member States in accordance with the composition of groups set out in paragraphs 3 and 4 of General Assembly resolution 43/232 of 1 March 1989, as adjusted by the Assembly in its resolutions 44/192 B of 21 December 1989, 45/269 of 27 August 1991, 46/198 A of 20 December 1991 and 47/218 A /...