A/RES/73/271 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 4 January 2019 Seventy-third session Agenda item 140 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2018 [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/73/421/Add.1)] 73/271. 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 for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations, including its resolutions 55/5 B and C of 23 December 2000, 57/4 B of 20 December 2002, 58/1 B of 23 December 2003, 61/237 of 22 December 2006, 64/248 of 24 December 2009, 67/238 of 24 December 2012 and 70/245 of 23 December 2015 and its decision 68/548 of 27 December 2013, Reaffirming Article 17 of the Charter of the United Nations and rule 160 of its rules of procedure, Recalling paragraphs 5 and 6 of its resolution 58/1 B, Having considered the report of the Committee on Contributions on its seventyeighth session 1 and the report of the Secretary-General on multi-year payment plans, 2 1. Takes note of the report of the Committee on Contributions; 1 2. Reaffirms 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; 3. Also reaffirms the fundamental principle that the expenses of the Organization shall be apportioned broadly according to capacity to pay; 4. Further 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; __________________ 1 2 18-22656 (E) Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 11 (A/73/11). A/73/76. 080119 *1822656*

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