A/RES/48/245 Page 2 Recognizing 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, Recognizing also that, in order to meet the expenditures caused by the Observer Mission, a different procedure is required from the one 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, 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. 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; 2. Notes with satisfaction an improvement in the compliance by the Secretariat with certain resolutions of the General Assembly with regard to the form of budget documents concerning peace-keeping operations; 3. Reaffirms 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; 4. Endorses the observations and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee; 2/ 5. Urges all Member States to make every possible effort to ensure payment of their assessed contributions to the United Nations Observer Mission Uganda-Rwanda promptly and in full; 6. Affirms that it expects that it will not be asked to take any future decisions on budgets for peace-keeping operations retroactively; 7. Decides that the special accounts for the Observer Mission and the Assistance Mission shall be integrated for purely administrative purposes; 8. Decides also to appropriate to the Special Account for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda a total amount of 3,642,300 United States dollars gross (3,557,400 dollars net) for the operation of the Observer Mission for the period from 22 June to 21 December 1993; /...