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Budget:
The regular programme budget of the United Nations is approved
by the General Assembly biennially. The budget is submitted
initially by the Secretary-General and reviewed by a 16-member
expert committee -- the Advisory Committee on Administrative and
Budgetary Questions. The programmatic aspects are reviewed by the
21-member Committee for Programme and Co-ordination.
For the 1986-1987 biennium, the budget appropriations, as
revised in 1986, totalled $1,711,801,200, divided into 11 main
categories of expenditures, as follows (in United States dollars):
I. Over-all policy-making, direction and
co-ordination.......................... 46,148,900
II. Political and Security Council affairs,
peace-keeping activities............... 94,625,400
III. Political affairs, trusteeship and
decolonization......................... 30,677,700
IV. Economic, social and humanitarian
activities............................. 477,410,900
V. International justice and law............ 27,767,700
VI. Public information....................... 76,182,700
VII. Common support services (administration
and management; conference and
library services)...................... 649,546,400
VIII. United Nations bond issue................ 16,758,600
IX. Staff assessment......................... 261,259,800
X. Capital expenditures (construction,
alteration, improvement and major
maintenance of premises)............... 30,823,100
XI. Special grants (grant to UNITAR)......... 600,000
Revised income estimates for the biennium 1986-1987, other than
assessments on Member States, totalled $304,745,100:
I. Income from staff assessment............. 265,126,700
II. Other income (general income and
revenue-producing activities).......... 39,618,400
The main source of funds for the regular budget are the
contributions of Member States, who are assessed on a scale
specified by the Assembly on the recommendation of the 18-member
Committee on Contributions. The fundamental criterion on which the
scale of assessments is based is the real capacity to pay of Member
States. The Assembly has fixed a maximum of 25 percent of the
budget for any one contributor and a minimum of 0.01 percent. (For
scale of assessments of Member States, see "Member States" section.)
The regular programme budget to which these assessments apply
covers expenses relating to substantive programmes, programme
support and administrative activities of the Organization both at
Headquarters and around the globe. Outside the regular budget,
Member States are also assessed, in accordance with a modified
version of the basic scale, for the costs of the United Nations
Interim Force in Lebanon and the United Nations Disengagement
Observer Force in the Middle East.
Many other United Nations activities are financed mainly by
voluntary contributions outside the regular budget. These
programmes and funds include the United Nations Development
Programme, the World Food Programme, the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations
Children's Fund, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine Refugees in the Near East, and the United Nations Fund
for Population Activities.
Source: "Basic Facts About the United Nations," Department of
Public Information, United Nations, New York, N.Y., 1987.