A/RES/56/501 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 Operation with the necessary financial resources to enable it to meet its outstanding liabilities, 1. Takes note of the status of contributions to the United Nations Operation in Somalia II as at 30 April 2002, including the contributions outstanding in the amount of 60.8 million United States dollars, representing some 3 per cent of the total assessed contributions, notes with concern that only one hundred and fortyeight Member States have paid their assessed contributions in full, and urges all other Member States, in particular those in arrears, to ensure payment of their outstanding assessed contributions; 2. Expresses its appreciation to those Member States which have paid their assessed contributions in full; 3. Expresses concern at the financial situation with regard to peacekeeping activities, in particular as regards the reimbursement of troop contributors that bear additional burdens owing to overdue payments by Member States of their assessments; 4. Also expresses concern at the delay experienced by the Secretary-General in deploying and providing adequate resources to some recent peacekeeping missions, in particular those in Africa; 5. Emphasizes that all future and existing peacekeeping missions shall be given equal and non-discriminatory treatment in respect of financial and administrative arrangements; 6. Also emphasizes that all peacekeeping missions shall be provided with adequate resources for the effective and efficient discharge of their respective mandates; 7. Endorses the recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;2 8. Authorizes the Secretary-General to retain an amount of 19,616,000 dollars from the balance of appropriations of 40,940,700 dollars to meet the cost of outstanding Government claims; 9. Decides to suspend for the immediate future the provisions of regulations 4.3, 4.4 and 5.2 (d) of the Financial Regulations of the United Nations in respect of the remaining surplus of 21,324,700 dollars in order to allow for the reimbursement of troop contributors and in the light of the cash shortage of the Operation, and requests the Secretary-General to provide an updated report in one year; 10. Decides also to defer consideration of the treatment of the increase in staff assessment income of 950,300 dollars in respect of the surplus referred to in paragraph 9 above; 11. Emphasizes that no peacekeeping mission shall be financed by borrowing funds from other active peacekeeping missions; 2