A/RES/74/266
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 135
Proposed programme budget for 2020
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 27 December 2019
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/74/614)]
74/266.
Working Capital Fund for 2020
The General Assembly
Resolves that:
1.
The Working Capital Fund shall be established for the year 2020 in the
amount of 150 million United States dollars;
2.
Member States shall make advances to the Working Capital Fund in
accordance with the scale of assessments adopted by the General Assembly for
contributions of Member States to the budget for 2020;
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 the surplus account to the Working Capital Fund in an adjusted amount of
1,025,092 dollars;
(b) Cash advances paid by Member States to the Working Capital Fund for the
biennium 2018–2019 in accordance with General Assembly resolution 72/265 of
24 December 2017;
4.
Should the credits and advances paid by any Member State to the Working
Capital Fund for the biennium 2018–2019 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 year 2020;
5.
Fund:
The Secretary-General is authorized to advance from the Working Capital
(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 that purpose;
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