United Nations A/RES/56/501 General Assembly Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 147 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/56/974)] 56/501. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Somalia II The General Assembly, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the financing of the United Nations Operation in Somalia II 1 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,2 Recalling Security Council resolutions 751 (1992) of 24 April 1992, by which the Council established the United Nations Operation in Somalia, and 814 (1993) of 26 March 1993, by which the Council expanded the size of the Operation and authorized the mandate for the expanded Operation (United Nations Operation in Somalia II), and the subsequent resolutions of the Council that extended the mandate of the Operation, the latest of which was resolution 954 (1994) of 4 November 1994, by which the Council extended the mandate of the Operation for a final period until 31 March 1995, Recalling also its resolution 47/41 A of 1 December 1992 on the financing of the Operation and its subsequent resolutions and decisions thereon, the latest of which was decision 53/477 of 8 June 1999, Reaffirming that the costs of the Operation 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 Operation, 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 operations, _______________ 1 2 02 46141 A/56/915. A/56/949. Distr.: General 24 July 2002