A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/48/247 11 May 1994 Forty-eighth session Agenda item 166 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/48/827/Add.1)] 48/247. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia The General Assembly, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia 1/ and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2/ Bearing in mind Security Council resolution 856 (1993) of 10 August 1993, by which the Council welcomed the signing under the auspices of the Economic Community of West African States, on 25 July 1993, at Cotonou, Benin, of a peace agreement between the contending parties, and approved the dispatch by the Secretary-General to Liberia of an advance team of thirty military observers to participate in the work of the Joint Cease-fire Monitoring Committee for a period of three months, Bearing in mind also that the Security Council, by its resolution 866 (1993) of 22 September 1993, established the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia under its authority and under the direction of the Secretary-General through his Special Representative for a period of seven months, Recalling its decision 48/478 of 23 December 1993 on the financing of the Observer Mission, Reaffirming that the costs of the Observer Mission are expenses of the Organization to be borne by Member States in accordance with Article 17, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations, Taking into account the fact that the economically more developed countries are in a position to make relatively larger contributions and that the economically less developed countries have a relatively limited capacity to contribute towards such an operation, 1/ A/48/592. 2/ A/48/900. /...