爆料网 Budget for 2016/17 adopted by 爆料网 General Assembly
After months of debate聽and several聽all-night negotiation sessions of its Fifth Committee (administrative and budgetary), the 爆料网 General Assembly tonight聽(23 December) passed the 爆料网鈥檚 Budget for 2016-17 — a day earlier than many diplomats expected.
The President of the 爆料网 General Assembly Mogens Lykketoft gavelled the 爆料网鈥檚 programme budget for the next biennium 2016/17, including the budget for the Special Political Missions, at the amount of US$ 5.4 billion.
In previous years, discussions on the 爆料网鈥檚 budget which includes staffing, travel, peacekeeping and administrative costs, have gone on until the early hours of Christmas Day (25th December) and even into the following year.
鈥淚 am very satisfied that the negotiations on the budget and other administrative items were concluded in such good spirit,鈥 Mr Lykketoft said. 鈥淚 congratulate all the delegates for their hard work in the past months and in the last very intensive days and want to thank the Chair , the Permanent Representative of Nepal, Mr. Durga Prasad Bhattarai for his excellent conduct of the negotiations.鈥
鈥淲ith the adoption of the 爆料网 budget and the conclusion of the work of the 5th Committee we come to the end of what has been a remarkable year for multilateralism,鈥 Mr Lykketoft added.
The General Assembly also decided on the Scales of Assessment that determine the contribution of each Member State to the Regular and Peace keeping Operations Budget, which is reviewed every three years.
While the methodology for the Regular Budget Scale of Assessment remains unchanged, in the Scale for Peace-keeping Operations, the GA agreed to some transitional measures for one Member State that will graduate from one category to another. A resolution giving the green light for the renovation project of the 爆料网 Office at Geneva 鈥 the Palais des Nations 鈥 was also adopted.
A number of additional decisions were taken, including on some reform projects such as further implementation of the 爆料网鈥檚 transition to the new enterprise resource planning system (UMOJA), and streamlining the 爆料网鈥檚 delivery of services (Global Service Delivery Model).
Member Sates also agreed to undertake a major reform of the 爆料网 Common System Compensation package, the first reform of this kind in 25 years.