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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/49/226
2 February 1995
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 116 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/49/811)]
49/226.
Financing of the United Nations Interim
Force in Lebanon
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the financing
of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon 1/ and the related report of
the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2/
Bearing in mind Security Council resolution 425 (1978) of 19 March 1978,
by which the Council established the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon,
and the subsequent resolutions by which the Council extended the mandate of
the Force, the latest of which was resolution 938 (1994) of
28 July 1994,
Recalling its resolution S-8/2 of 21 April 1978 on the financing of the
Force and its subsequent resolutions thereon, the latest of which was
resolution 48/254 of 26 May 1994,
Affirming that the costs of the Force 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,
Reaffirming its previous decisions regarding the fact that, in order to
meet the expenditures caused by the Force, 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
1/
A/49/644.
2/
See A/49/785 and Corr.1.
95-76219
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