United Nations

A/64/631
Distr.: General 20 January 2010 Original: English

General Assembly

Sixty-fourth session Agenda item 136 Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations

Letter dated 20 January 2010 from the Secretary-General to the President of the General Assembly
1. At present, 19 Member States are in arrears under the terms of Article 19 of the Charter of the United Nations, which states: A Member of the United Nations which is in arrears in the payment of its financial contributions to the Organization shall have no vote in the General Assembly if the amount of its arrears equals or exceeds the amount of the contributions due from it for the preceding two full years. The General Assembly may, nevertheless, permit such a Member to vote if it is satisfied that the failure to pay is due to conditions beyond the control of the Member. 2. The minimum payments necessary to reduce the amounts owed by those Member States on their contributions so that they remain below the gross amount assessed for the preceding two full years (2008 and 2009) are as follows:
Minimum payment (United States dollars)

Member State

Central African Republica Chile Comorosa Dominican Republic Guinea-Bissaua Kiribati Kyrgyzstan Liberiaa Marshall Islands Micronesia (Federated States of) Palau Paraguay

435 600.00 1 248 700.00 804 300.00 910 300.00 408 000.00 16 600.00 7 600.00 691 300.00 38 300.00 3 700.00 31 000.00 194 300.00

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Member State

Minimum payment (United States dollars)

Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sao Tome and Principea Somalia Sudan Swaziland Timor-Leste
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16 100.00 600.00 692 000.00 1 120 300.00 157 000.00 24 700.00 23 300.00

In its resolution 64/2, the General Assembly decided that the Central African Republic, the Comoros, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Sao Tome and Principe and Somalia should be permitted to vote in the Assembly until the end of its sixty-fourth session.

(Signed) BAN Ki-moon

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