Sixty-first session Agenda item 122 Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations Report of the Fifth Committee Rapporteur: Mr. Diego Simancas (Mexico) I. Introduction 1. The previous recommendation made by the Fifth Committee to the General Assembly under agenda item 122 appears in the report of the Committee contained in document A/61/512. 2. The Fifth Committee resumed its consideration of agenda item 122 at its 37th meeting on 22 December 2006. Statements and observations made in the course of the Committee’s consideration of the item are reflected in the relevant summary records (A/C.5/61/SR.37). 3. For its further consideration of the item, the Committee had before it the following documents: 1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 11 and corrigendum (A/61/11 and Corr.1). (a) Report of the Committee on Contributions;1 (b) Report of the Secretary-General on multi-year payment plans (A/61/68); (c) Report of the Secretary-General on the unpaid assessed contributions of the former Yugoslavia (A/60/140 and Corr.1); (d) Note by the Secretary-General on the outstanding assessed contributions of the former Yugoslavia (A/58/189); (e) Letter dated 2 November 2006 from the Permanent Representative of Slovenia to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General (A/C.5/61/11); (f) Letter dated 27 December 2001 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the General Assembly (A/56/767). II. Consideration of draft resolution A/C.5/61/L.28 4. At its 37th meeting, on 22 December, the Committee had before it a draft resolution entitled “Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations” (A/C.5/61/L.28), submitted by the Chairman of the Committee on the basis of informal consultations coordinated by the representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 5. At the same meeting, the Committee adopted draft resolution A/C.5/61/L.28 without a vote (see para. 6). III. Recommendation of the Fifth Committee 6. The Fifth Committee recommends to the General Assembly the adoption of the following draft resolution: Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations The General Assembly, Recalling its previous resolutions and decisions on the scale of assessments, including 43/223 B of 21 December 1988, 46/221 B of 20 December 1991, 55/5 B, C and D of 23 December 2000, 57/4 B of 20 December 2002 and 58/1 B of 23 December 2003, Recalling in particular its resolution 55/5 B, in which the General Assembly decided to fix the elements of the scale of assessments for two successive scale periods until 2006, subject to the provisions of resolution 55/5 C, Recalling further paragraphs 5 and 6 of resolution 58/1 B, Noting that the application of the current methodology has led to substantial increases in the rate of assessment of some Member States, including developing countries, Having considered the report of the Committee on Contributions, 1. Affirms that the determination of the scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations shall remain the prerogative of the General Assembly; 2. Reaffirms the obligation of all Member States to bear the expenses of the United Nations, as apportioned by the General Assembly, in conformity with Article 17, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations; 3. Also reaffirms the fundamental principle that the expenses of the Organization shall be apportioned broadly according to capacity to pay; 4. Further reaffirms that the Committee on Contributions as a technical body is required to prepare the scale of assessments strictly on the basis of reliable, verifiable and comparable data; 5. Decides that the scale of assessments for the period 2007-2009 shall be based on the following elements and criteria: (a) Estimates of gross national income; (b) Average statistical base periods of six and three years; (c) Conversion rates based on market exchange rates, except where that would cause excessive fluctuations and distortions in the income of some Member States, when price-adjusted rates of exchange or other appropriate conversion rates should be employed, taking due account of its resolution 46/221 B; (d) The debt-burden approach employed in the scale of assessments for the period 2004-2006; (e) A low per capita income adjustment of 80 per cent, with a threshold per capita income limit of the average per capita gross national income of all Member States for the statistical base periods; (f) A minimum assessment rate of 0.001 per cent; (g) A maximum assessment rate for the least developed countries of 0.01 per cent; (h) A maximum assessment rate of 22 per cent; 6. Resolves that the scale of assessments for the contribution of Member States to the regular budget of the United Nations for 2007, 2008 and 2009 shall be as follows: Member State Percentage Afghanistan 0.001 Albania 0.006 Algeria 0.085 Andorra 0.008 Angola 0.003 Antigua and Barbuda 0.002 Argentina 0.325 Armenia 0.002 Australia 1.787 Austria 0.887 Azerbaijan 0.005 Bahamas 0.016 Bahrain 0.033 Bangladesh 0.010 Barbados 0.009 Belarus 0.020 Belgium 1.102 Belize 0.001 Benin 0.001 Bhutan 0.001 Bolivia 0.006 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.006 Botswana 0.014 Brazil 0.876 Brunei Darussalam 0.026 Bulgaria 0.020 Burkina Faso 0.002 Burundi 0.001 Cambodia 0.001 Cameroon 0.009 Canada 2.977 Cape Verde 0.001 Central African Republic 0.001 Chad 0.001 Chile 0.161 China 2.667 Colombia 0.105 Comoros 0.001 Congo 0.001 Costa Rica 0.032 Côte d’Ivoire 0.009 Croatia 0.050 Cuba 0.054 Cyprus 0.044 Czech Republic 0.281 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 0.007 Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.003 Denmark 0.739 Djibouti 0.001 Dominica 0.001 Dominican Republic 0.024 Ecuador 0.021 Egypt 0.088 El Salvador 0.020 Equatorial Guinea 0.002 Eritrea 0.001 Estonia 0.016 Ethiopia 0.003 Fiji 0.003 Finland 0.564 France 6.301 Gabon 0.008 Gambia 0.001 Georgia 0.003 Germany 8.577 Ghana 0.004 Greece 0.596 Grenada 0.001 Guatemala 0.032 Guinea 0.001 Guinea-Bissau 0.001 Guyana 0.001 Haiti 0.002 Honduras 0.005 Hungary 0.244 Iceland 0.037 India 0.450 Indonesia 0.161 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 0.180 Iraq 0.015 Ireland 0.445 Israel 0.419 Italy 5.079 Jamaica 0.010 Japan 16.624 Jordan 0.012 Kazakhstan 0.029 Kenya 0.010 Kiribati 0.001 Kuwait 0.182 Kyrgyzstan 0.001 Lao People’s Democratic Republic 0.001 Latvia 0.018 Lebanon 0.034 Lesotho 0.001 Liberia 0.001 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 0.062 Liechtenstein 0.010 Lithuania 0.031 Luxembourg 0.085 Madagascar 0.002 Malawi 0.001 Malaysia 0.190 Maldives 0.001 Mali 0.001 Malta 0.017 Marshall Islands 0.001 Mauritania 0.001 Mauritius 0.011 Mexico 2.257 Micronesia (Federated States of) 0.001 Moldova 0.001 Monaco 0.003 Mongolia 0.001 Montenegro 0.001 Morocco 0.042 Mozambique 0.001 Myanmar 0.005 Namibia 0.006 Nauru 0.001 Nepal 0.003 Netherlands 1.873 New Zealand 0.256 Nicaragua 0.002 Niger 0.001 Nigeria 0.048 Norway 0.782 Oman 0.073 Pakistan 0.059 Palau 0.001 Panama 0.023 Papua New Guinea 0.002 Paraguay 0.005 Peru 0.078 Philippines 0.078 Poland 0.501 Portugal 0.527 Qatar 0.085 Republic of Korea 2.173 Romania 0.070 Russian Federation 1.200 Rwanda 0.001 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.001 Saint Lucia 0.001 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.001 Samoa 0.001 San Marino 0.003 Sao Tome and Principe 0.001 Saudi Arabia 0.748 Senegal 0.004 Serbia 0.021 Seychelles 0.002 Sierra Leone 0.001 Singapore 0.347 Slovakia 0.063 Slovenia 0.096 Solomon Islands 0.001 Somalia 0.001 South Africa 0.290 Spain 2.968 Sri Lanka 0.016 Sudan 0.010 Suriname 0.001 Swaziland 0.002 Sweden 1.071 Switzerland 1.216 Syrian Arab Republic 0.016 Tajikistan 0.001 Thailand 0.186 The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 0.005 Timor-Leste 0.001 Togo 0.001 Tonga 0.001 Trinidad and Tobago 0.027 Tunisia 0.031 Turkey 0.381 Turkmenistan 0.006 Tuvalu 0.001 Uganda 0.003 Ukraine 0.045 United Arab Emirates 0.302 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 6.642 United Republic of Tanzania 0.006 United States of America 22.000 Uruguay 0.027 Uzbekistan 0.008 Vanuatu 0.001 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 0.200 Viet Nam 0.024 Yemen 0.007 Zambia 0.001 Zimbabwe 0.008 Total 100.000 7. Requests the Committee on Contributions, in accordance with its mandate and the rules of procedure of the General Assembly, to review the elements of the methodology of the scale of assessments in order to reflect the capacity of Member States to pay and to report thereon to the Assembly by the main part of its sixty-third session; 8. Resolves that: (a) Notwithstanding the terms of financial regulation 3.9, the Secretary-General shall be empowered to accept, at his discretion and after consultation with the Chairman of the Committee on Contributions, a portion of the contributions of Member States for the calendar years 2007, 2008 and 2009 in currencies other than the United States dollar; (b) In accordance with financial regulation 3.8,_Ref154509204 \h \* MERGEFORMAT 2 the Holy See, which is not a member of the United Nations but which participates in certain of its activities, shall be called upon to contribute towards the expenses of the Organization for 2007, 2008 and 2009 on the basis of a notional assessment rate of 0.001 per cent, which represents the basis for the calculation of the flat annual fees to be charged to the Holy See in accordance with its resolution 44/197 B of 21 December 1989; 9. Endorses the recommendations of the Committee on Contributions contained in paragraph 132 of its report; 10. Decides that the rate of assessment for Montenegro, admitted to membership of the United Nations on 28 June 2006, should be 0.001 per cent for 2006; 11. Also decides that Montenegro shall contribute at the rate of one twelfth of this percentage for each full month of membership in 2006; 12. Further decides that the contributions of Montenegro for 2006 shall be applied to the same basis of assessment as for other Member States, except that, in the case of appropriations or apportionments approved by the General Assembly for the financing of peacekeeping operations, the contributions of Montenegro, as determined by the level of contribution for peacekeeping operations to which it is assigned in 2006, pursuant to the provisions of Assembly resolution 55/235 of 23 December 2000, shall be calculated in proportion to the calendar year; 13. Decides that the assessments of Montenegro for 2006 shall be deducted from those of the former Serbia and Montenegro for that year; 14. Also decides that, in accordance with financial regulation 3.7,_Ref154509204 \h \* MERGEFORMAT 2 the advance of Montenegro to the Working Capital Fund should be calculated by the application of its rate of assessment for 2006 to the authorized level of the Fund and should be added to the Fund, pending its incorporation in a 100 per cent scale for the Fund for 2006-2007, pursuant to the related provisions of General Assembly resolution 60/283 of 7 July 2006; 15. Notes that, pursuant to its resolution 47/217 of 23 December 1992, the assessment of Montenegro for the Peacekeeping Reserve Fund should be calculated by the application of its first rate of assessment for peacekeeping operations to the authorized level of the Fund; 16. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on multi-year payment plans and of the related conclusions and recommendations of the Committee on Contributions; 17. Reaffirms paragraph 1 of its resolution 57/4 B; 18. Urges all Member States to pay their assessed contributions in full, on time and without imposing conditions; 19. Encourages Member States in arrears in the assessed contributions to the United Nations to consider submitting multi-year payment plans. Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 11 and corrigendum (A/61/11 and Corr.1). See ST/SGB/2003/7. Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 11 and corrigendum (A/61/11 and Corr.1). A/61/68. Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 11 and corrigendum (A/61/11 and Corr.1), paras. 75-78. __________________ __________________  sss1 \* MERGEFORMAT A/61/512/Add.1 sss1 \* MERGEFORMAT A/61/512/Add.1 FooterJN \* MERGEFORMAT 06-68395 \* MERGEFORMAT 10 \* MERGEFORMAT 9 FooterJN \* MERGEFORMAT 06-68395 United Nations A/61/512/Add.1 General Assembly Distr.: General 22 December 2006 English Original: Spanish jobn \* MERGEFORMAT 06-68395 (E) 030107 Barcode \* MERGEFORMAT *0668395*