United Nations A/RES/56/299 General Assembly Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 144 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/56/981)] 56/299. Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force The General Assembly, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force 1 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,2 Recalling Security Council resolutions 983 (1995) of 31 March 1995, by which the Council decided that the United Nations Protection Force within the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia should be known as the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force, and 1186 (1998) of 21 July 1998, by which the Council extended the mandate of the Force until 28 February 1999, Recalling also its decision 50/481 of 11 April 1996 on the financing of the Force and its subsequent resolutions and decisions thereon, the latest of which was resolution 54/275 of 15 June 2000, Reaffirming that the costs of the Force 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, Recalling its previous decisions regarding the fact that, in order to meet the expenditures caused by the Force, a different procedure is required from that applied to meet expenditures of the regular budget 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, 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, _______________ 1 2 01 49952 A/56/842. A/56/887. Distr.: General 16 July 2002