GA/10955
Sixty-fourth General Assembly
Plenary
101st Meeting (PM)
Also Adopts Consensus Text on Cross-Cutting Issues, Including Increased Death Benefit, Global Field Support Strategy
Acting on the recommendations of its Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary), the General Assembly this afternoon adopted a peacekeeping budget of $7.2 billion for the period from 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011.
The amount approved today provided for 15 peacekeeping missions, the Logistics Base in Brindisi and the peacekeeping support account. The breakdown of the appropriation is as follows:
Mission Amount approved
AMISOM (African Union Mission in Somalia) $178.22 million
MINURCAT ( Mission in Central African Republic and Chad) $215 million
MINURSO ( Mission for Referendum in Western Sahara) $57.13 million
MINUSTAH (Stabilization Mission in Haiti) $380 million
MONUC (Organization Mission in Democratic Republic of the Congo) $1.37 billion
UNAMID (Hybrid Operation in Darfur) $1.82 billion
UNDOF (Disengagement Observer Force) $47.81 million
UNFICYP (Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus) $56.33 million
UNIFIL (Interim Force in Lebanon) $518.71 million
UNMIK ( Mission in Kosovo) $47.87 million
UNMIL ( Mission in Liberia) $524 million
UNMIS ( Mission in Sudan) $938 million
UNMIT (Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste) $206.31 million
UNOCI (Operation in Côte d'Ivoire) $485.08 million
United Nations Office to the African Union $10.17 million
Brindisi $68.17 million
Support Account $356.03 million
The text for each Mission contained different provisions on how the sums were to be apportioned among Member States and specified any offsets that might apply.
All resolutions were adopted without a vote, except the text on the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which, by a recorded vote, received 131 votes in favour to 2 against (Israel, United States), with 1 abstention(Côte d'Ivoire). (For details of the vote, see Annex II)
Prior to action on the text as a whole, a separate recorded vote was held on the paragraphs referring to several previous resolutions that called for Israel to pay $1.12 million for the damage resulting from a 1996 incident at the UNIFIL headquarters in Qana, Lebanon. The paragraphs were retained by a vote of 79 in favour to 5 against ( Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, United States), with 47 abstentions. (Annex I)
The Assembly also adopted a consensus draft resolution on cross-cutting issues, a six-part resolution that, among others, increased the level of compensation for death for all categories of uniformed personnel and addressed the new global field support strategy being proposed by the Department of Field Support under the leadership of Under-Secretary-General Susana Malcorra. The final proposal on the strategy is to be submitted to the Assembly at its sixty-fifth session.
Member States were to be consulted on the proposal's further development, according to one of the provisions, including on functions and resources to be transferred to the global service centre in Brindisi, Italy. In the context of the new field support strategy, the Assembly decided that the regional service centre at Entebbe, Uganda, would be a family duty station effective 1 July 2011, contingent on and without prejudice to any future decision taken by the Assembly on the designation of duty stations.
And finally, the Assembly decided to defer until its sixty-fifth session its consideration of the financial position of closed peacekeeping missions.
The Assembly will meet again at a time to be announced.