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232 General Assembly-Thirty-sixth Session (a) $116,698,400 being half of the estimated staff assessment income approved for the biennium 1982-1983 under resolution B above; (b) $216,400 being the increase in the revised income from staff assessment for the biennium 1980-1981 . 36/241. Unforeseen and extraordinary expenses for the biennium 1982-1983 The General Assembly I. Authorizes the Secretary-General, with the prior con- currence of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and subject to the Financial Regula- tions of the United Nations and the provisions of paragraph 3 below, to enter into commitments in the biennium 1982- 1983 to meet unforeseen and extraordinary expenses arising either during or subsequent to that biennium, provided that the concurrence of the Advisory Committee shall not be necessary for: (a) Such commitments, not exceeding a total of $US 2 million in any one year of the biennium 1982-1983, as the Secretary-General certifies relate to the maintenance of peace and security; (b) Such commitments as the President of the Interna- tional Court of Justice certifies relate to expenses occasioned by: (i) The designation of ad hoe judges (Statute of the Court, Article 31), not exceeding a total of $150,000; (ii) The appointment of assessors (Statute, Article 30), or the calling of witnesses and the appointment of experts (Statute, Article 50), not exceeding a total of $50,000; (iii) The maintenance in office of judges who have not been re-elected (Statute, Article 13, paragraph 3), not exceeding a total of $150,000 in 1982; (iv) The payment of pensions and travel and removal expenses of retiring judges, and travel and removal expenses of new members of the Court, not ex- ceeding a total of $157,000 in 1982, and the pay- ment of pensions of retiring judges, not exceeding atotalof$131,000 in 1983; (c) Such commitments, in an amount not exceeding $300,000, in the biennium 1982-1983, as the Secretary- General certifies are required for interorganizational security measures pursuant to section IV of General Assembly res- olution 36/235 of 18 December 1981 ; 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-seventh and thirty-eighth sessions all commitments made under the provisions of the present resolution, together with the cir- cumstances relating thereto, and shall submit supplementary estimates to the Assembly in respect of such commitments; 3. Decides that if, as a result of a decision of the Se- curity Council, commitments relating to the maintenance of peace and security should arise in an estimated total exceeding $10 million either before the thirty-seventh ses- sion or between the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth sessions of the General Assembly, a special session of the Assembly shall be convened by the Secretary-General to consider the matter. 105th plenary meeting 18 December 1981 105th plenary meeting 18 December 1981 36/242. Working Capital Fund for the biennium 1982- 1983 The General Assembly Resolves that: 1. The Working Capital Fund shall be established for the biennium 1982-1983 in the amount of $US I 00 million; 2. Member States shall make advances to the Working Capital Fund in accordance with the scale adopted by the General Assembly for contributions of Member States to the budget for the year 1982; 3. There shall be set off against this allocation of advances: (a) Credits to Member States resulting from transfers 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 Work- ing Capital Fund for the biennium 1980-1981 under General Assembly resolutions 34/232 of 20 December 1979 and 35/ 11 A of 3 November 1980; 4. Should the credits and advances paid by any Member State to the Working Capital Fund for the biennium I 980- 1981 exceed the amount of that Member 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 1982-1983; 5. The Secretary-General is authorized to advance from the Working Capital Fund: (a) Such sums as may be necessary to finance budgetary appropriations pending the receipt of contributions; sums so advanced shall be reimbursed as soon as receipts from contributions are available for the purpose; (b) Such sums as may be necessary to finance com- mitments which may be duly authorized under the provisions of the resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, in particular resolution 36/241 of 18 December 1981 relating to unforeseen and extraordinary expenses; the Secretary- General shall make provision in the budget estimates for reimbursing the Working Capital Fund; (c) Such sums as, together with net sums outstanding for the same purpose, do not exceed $200,000, to continue the 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 Administrative and Budgetary Questions; (d) With the prior concurrence of the Advisory Com- mittee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, such sums as may be required to finance payments 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 biennium, during the life of the related policies, to cover the charges applicable to each biennium: VIII. Resolutions adopted on the reports of the Fifth Committee 233 (e) Such sums as may be necessary to enable the Tax Equalization Fund to meet current commitments pendi~g 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 r~lated to. the Working Capital Fund, the Secretary-General 1s authonz~d to utilize in the biennium 1982-1983, cash from special funds and accounts in his custody, under the conditions approved in General Assembly resolution 1341 (XIII) of 13 December 1958, or the proceeds of loans authorized by the Assembly. 105th plenary meeting 18 December 1981 36/243. Formulation, presentation, review and ap- proval of programme budgets The General Assembly. Recalling section XX of its resolution 36/235 of 18 De- cember 1981 , Decides to continue, at its thirty-seventh session, con- sideration of the question of the formulation, presentation, review and approval of programme budgets, including the draft resolution on this subject submitted on 14 December 1981 , 94 as orally revised. 95 04 A/C. 5/36/L.4 l /Rev. I 108th plenary meeting 19 March 1982 9 ' Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-sixth Session, An- nexes, agenda item 100, document A/36/845. para. 109.

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