A/RES/56/292 7. Decides also, on an exceptional and ad hoc basis and without prejudice to Article 17 of the Charter of the United Nations, unless notified otherwise by a Member State within forty-five days of the issuance of the notification by the Secretary-General of the apportionment of the respective shares of the cash balances in the accounts referred to in paragraph 6 above, to effect the transfer of the cash balances referred to in that paragraph to the account of the United Nations Logistics Base for the purpose of financing the strategic deployment stocks; 8. Decides further, on an exceptional and ad hoc basis and without prejudice to Article 17 of the Charter, that a Member State that does not select the option referred to in paragraph 7 above will be assessed its respective share of the 141,546,000 dollars as a one-time requirement according to the levels as at 1 July 2002, as set out in General Assembly resolution 55/235 of 23 December 2000, as adjusted by the Assembly in its resolution 55/236 of the same date, taking into account the scale of assessments for the year 2002, as set out in its resolution 55/5 B also of the same date, payment to be made in a manner of the Member State’s choosing, to include any combination of the cash balances referred to above and/or new funds, to cover its assessed share of 141,546,000 dollars; 9. Decides, on an exceptional basis, that in the absence of a direct transfer to the strategic deployment stocks, the respective share of the credits from the liquidated missions will be credited to those Member States once their assessed contribution is received; 10. Decides also that the provisions of paragraph 8 above will also apply to Member States that have no share in any of the unencumbered balances referred to in paragraph 6 above; 11. Authorizes the Secretary-General, on an exceptional and ad hoc basis, following the application of cash transfers by Member States in accordance with paragraphs 7 and 8 above, to transfer a portion of the interest income from the Peacekeeping Reserve Fund, taking into account the provisions of General Assembly resolution 51/218 E of 17 June 1997, so as to make available to the account of the United Nations Logistics Base a total of 141,546,000 dollars, inclusive of contributions from Member States, to establish the strategic deployment stock programme; 12. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session on the expenses incurred in the implementation of the strategic deployment stocks, and decides to review the financing arrangements after consideration of the report of the Secretary-General; 13. Endorses the recommendation contained in paragraph 23 of the report of the Advisory Committee 2 pertaining to the scope of the start-up phase of peacekeeping operations that includes the implementation of the strategic deployment stocks stockpile; 14. Also endorses the replenishment policy set out in paragraphs 24 to 27 of the report of the Secretary-General;1 15. Further endorses the interpretation by the Advisory Committee of General Assembly resolution 49/233 A of 23 December 1994, as outlined in paragraphs 22 to 25 of its report; 2 16. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly all expenses incurred on the activation of the strategic deployment stocks and to propose a course of action to be taken by the Assembly on the financing of 2