A/RES/1875(S-IV) GA

4, General Assembly-Fourth Special Session 1875 (S-IV). United Nations Emergency Forcei cost estimates and financing for the period 1 July to 31 December 1963 The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 1089 (XI) of 21 December 1956, 1090 (XI) of 27 February 1957, 1151 (XII) of 22 November 1957, 1337 (XIII) of 13 December 1958, 1441 (XIV) of 5 December 1959, 1575 (XV) of 20 December 1960 and 1733 (XVI) of 20 December 1961, Having considered the report of the Secretary-Gen- eral on the cost estimates of the United Nations Emer- gency Force for the period 1 January 1963 to 31 De- cember 1963,6 and the report of the Advisory Commit- tee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions there- on,7 I. Decides to continue the Special Account for the expenses of the United Nations Emergency Force; 2. Authorizes the Secretary-General to expend up to 31 December 1963 at an average monthly rate not to exceed $1,580,000 for the continuing cost of the United Nations Emergency Force; 3. Decides to appropriate an amount of $9.S million for the operations of the United Nations Emergency Force for the period 1 July to 31 December 1963; 4. Decides to apportion: (a) The amount of $2.S million among all Member States in accordance with the regular scale of assess- ments for 1963 ; ( b) The $7 million balance of the amount appro- priated in paragraph 3 above among all Member States in accordance with the regular scale of assessments for 1%3, except that each economically less developed coun- try shall be assessed an amount calculated at 45 per cent of its rate under the regular scale of assessments for 1963; provided that this apportionment shall constitute an ad hoe arrangement for the present phase of this peace- keeping operation, and shall not constitute a precedent for the future ; 5. Decides that, for the purpose of the present re- solution, the term "economically less developed coun- tries" shall mean all Member States except Australia, Austria, Belgium, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Re- public, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lux- embourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Sweden, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ire- land and the United States of America; 6. Recommends that the Member States named in paragraph 5 above make voluntary contributions in addition to their assessments under the present resolu- tion in order to finance authorized expenditures in ex- cess of the total amount assessed under this resolu- tion, such voluntary contributions to be credited to a special account by the Secretary-General and trans- ferred to the United Nations Emergency Force Special Account as and when an economically less developed 6 Jbid., Seventeenth Session, Annexes, agenda items 32 and 63, document A/5187. 7 Ibid., document A/5274. country has once paid to the credit of the latter ac- count its assessment under paragraph 4 ( b) above or an equal amount, the transfer to be of an amount which bears the same proportion to the total of such volun- tary contributions as the amount of such payment bears to the total of the assessments on economically less developed countries under paragraph 4 ( b) ; any amount left in such special account on 31 December 1965 shall revert to the Member States that made such voluntary contributions in proportion to their respective voluntary contributions; 7. Appeals to all other Member States which are in a position to assist to make similar voluntary contribu- tions or alternatively to forgo having their assessments calculated at the rate mentioned in the exception con- tained in paragraph 4 ( b) above ; 8. Decides that the voluntary contributions referred to in paragraphs 6 and 7 above may be made by a Member State, at its option, in the form of services and supplies acceptable to the Secretary-General, fur- nished for use in connexion with the United Nations Emergency Force during the period 1 July to 31 De- cember 1963, for which the Member State does not require reimbursement, the Member State to be cre- dited with the fair value thereof as agreed upon by the Member State and by the Secretary-General. 1205th plenary meeting, 27 June 1963. 1876 (S-IV), United Nations Operation in the Congo: cost estimates and financing for the period 1 July to 31 December 1963 The General Assembly, Recalling the Security Council resolutions of 14 July 1960,8 22 July 1960,9 9 August 1960,10 21 February 1%1 11 and 24 November 1961,12 and General Assembly resolutions 1474 (ES-IV) of 20 September 1960, 1583 (XV) of 20 December 1960, 1595 (XV) of 3 April 1%1, 1599 (XV), 1600 (XV) and 1601 (XV) of 15 April 1961, 1619 (XV) of 21 April 1961, 1633 (XVI) of 30 October 1961 and 1732 (XVI) of 20 December 1961, Having considered the report of the Secretary-Gen- eral on the cost estimates of the United Nations Oper- ation in the Congo for the period 1 July to 31 December 1963,13 and the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, thereon,14 1. Decides to continue the Ad H oc Account for the United Nations Operation in the Congo; 2. Authorizes the Secretary-General to expend up to 31 December 1963 at an average monthly rate not to exceed $5.5 million for the continuing cost of the United Nations Operation in the Congo; 8 Official Records of the Security Council, Fifteenth Year, Supplement for July, August and September 1960 document S/4387. ' 9 1/nd., document S/4405. 10 ]Ind., document S/4426. 11 Ibid., Sixteenth Year, Si,pp/ement for January, February and March 1961, document S/4741. 12 Ibid., Supplement for October, November and December 1961, document S/5002. 13 _Official Records of t~e General Assembly, Fourth Special Session, Annexes, agenda item 7, document A/5416. 14 Ibid., document A/5421.

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