A/RES/32/215 GA

206 General Assembly-Thirty-second Session (iii) (iv) (v) The holding of sessions of the Court away from The Hague (Statute, Article 22), not exceeding a total of $150,000; The maintenance in office of judges who have not been re~elected ( Statute, Article 13, para- graph 3), not exceeding a total of $75,000 in 1978; The payment of pensions and travel and re- moval expenses of retiring judges, and travel and removal expenses of new members of the Court, not exceeding a total of $130,000 in 1978, and the payment of pensions of re- tiring judges not exceeding a total of $130,000 in 1979; 2. Resolves that the Secretary-General shall report to the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and to the General Assembly at its thirty-third and thirty-fourth sessions ali commit- ments made under the provisions of the present resolu- tion, together with the circumstances refating thereto, and shall submit supplementary estimates to the As- sembly in respect of such commitments; 3. Decides that if, as a result of a decision of the Security Council, commitments relating to the main- tenance of peace and security should arise in an es- timated total exceeding $1 O million befare either the thirty-third or the thirty-fourth session of the General Assembly, a special session of the Assembly shall be convened by the Secretary-General to consider the matter. 110th plenary meeting 21 December 1977 32/215. W orking Capital Fund for the biennium 1978-1979 The General Assembly Resolves that: l. The Working Capital Fund shall be established for the biennium 1978-1979 in the amount of $US 40 million; 2. Member States shall make advances to the Work- ing Capital Fund in accordance with the scale adopted by the General Assembly for contributions of Member States to the budget for the biennium 1978-1979; 3. There shall be set off against this allocation of advances: (a) Credits to Member States resu.lting from trans- fers made in 1959 and 1960 from surplus account to the Working Capital Fund in an adjusted amount of $1,025,092; (b) Cash advances paid by Member States to the Working Capital Fund for the biennium 1976-1977 under General Assembly resolution 3541 (XXX) of 17 December 197 5; 4. Should the credits and advances paid by any Member State to the Working Capital Fund for the biennium 197 6-1977 exceed the amount of that Mem- ber State's advance under the provisions of paragraph 2 above, the excess shall be set off against the amount of the contributions payable by the Member State in respect of the biennium 1978-1979; 5. The Secretary-General is authorized to advance from the Working Capital Fund: (a) Such sums as may be necessary to finance bud- getary appropriations pending the receipt of contribu- tions; sums so advanced shall be rcimburscd as soon as receipts from contributions are available for the purpose; (b) Such sums as may be necessary to finance commitments which may be duly authorized under the provisions of the .resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, in particular resolution 32/214 of 21 De- cember 1977 relating to unforeseen and extraordinary expenses; the Secretary-General shall makc provision in the budget estimates for reimbursing the Working Capital Fund; (e) Such sums as, together with net sums out- standing far the same purpose, do not exceed $200,000, to continue thc revolving fund to finance miscellaneous self-liquidating purchases and activities; advances in excess of the total of $200,000 may be made with the prior concurrence of the Advisory Committee on Ad- ministrative and Budgetary Questions; (d) With the prior concurrence of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Ques- tions, such sums as may be required to finance pay- ments of advance insurance premiums where the period of insurance extends beyond the end of the biennium in which payment is made; the Secretary-General shall make provision in the budget estimates of each bien- nium, during the life of the related policies, to cover the charges applicable to eaoh biennium; (e) Such sums as ma y be necessary to enable the Tax Equalization Fund to meet current commitments pending the accumulation of credits; such advances shall be repaid as soon as credits are available in the Tax Equalization Fund; 6. Should the provision in paragraph 1 above prove inadequate to meet the purposes normally related to the Working Capital Fund, the Secretary-General is authorized to utilize, in the biennium 1978-1979, cash from special funds and accounts in his custody, under the conditions approved in General Assembly resolu- tion 1341 (XIII) of 13 December 1958, or the pro- ceeds of loans authorized by the Assembly. 110th plenary meeting 21 December 1977

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