A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/49/249 7 August 1995 Forty-ninth session Agenda item 132 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/49/947)] 49/249. Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peace-keeping operations The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 3101 (XXVIII) of 11 December 1973 and its subsequent resolutions relating to the composition of the existing groups, the latest of which is resolution 47/218 A of 23 December 1992, and its decision 48/472 A of 23 December 1993, Having received the request of Belarus for reclassification from group B to group C, 1. Welcomes with great satisfaction the voluntary decision made by the Government of Portugal to reclassify Portugal from group C to group B; 2. Decides, as an ad hoc arrangement, to note the voluntary decision made by the Government of Portugal and to place Portugal among the Member States referred to in paragraph 3 (b) of its resolution 43/232 of 1 March 1989 and, in accordance with that decision, to apportion its share of the costs of peace-keeping operations financed through assessed contributions on the basis of the proportion determined by the scale of assessments in the following manner: 35 per cent beginning 1 July 1995, 50 per cent in 1996, 70 per cent in 1997, 85 per cent in 1998 and 100 per cent in 1999 and subsequent years; 95-77371 /...