UNIFIL financing – Fifth Cttee debate – Summary record (excerpts)

Fifth Committee

Summary record of the 27th meeting

Held at Headquarters, New York, on Monday, 13 November 2000, at 10 a.m.

Contents

Agenda item 116: Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations (continued)

Agenda item 124: United Nations common system (continued)

Agenda item 125: United Nations pension system (continued)

Agenda item 138: Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the Middle East

(b) United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon

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Agenda item 138: Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the Middle East

(b) United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (A/55/482 and A/55/516)

47. Mr. Mselle (Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions), introducing the report of the Advisory Committee (A/55/516) on the revised budget of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) for the period from 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2001 (A/55/482), said that the revised budget presented by the Secretary-General amounted to $225,535,700 gross, an estimate that was $86,758,400 higher than the initial approved budget, which reflected, inter alia, the increase in authorized troop strength from 4,513 to 7,935 that had been endorsed by the Security Council. In paragraph 12 of its report, the Advisory Committee recommended that the General Assembly should appropriate an additional gross amount for the expansion of the mission, as proposed by the Secretary-General.

The meeting rose at noon.