FIFTY-SECOND WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY Agenda item 15
WHA52.1 24 May 1999
Status of collection of assessed contributions The Fifty-second World Health Assembly, Noting with concern that, as at 31 December 1998: (1) the rate of collection in 1998 of contributions to the effective working budget for that year amounted to 77.94%, leaving US$ 92 373 784 unpaid; (2) only 105 Members had paid their contributions to the effective working budget for that year in full, and 63 Members had made no payment; (3) total unpaid contributions in respect of 1998 and prior years exceeded US$ 180 million,
1. EXPRESSES deep concern at the continuing high level of outstanding contributions, which has had a deleterious effect on programmes and on the financial situation of the Organization; 2. CALLS THE ATTENTION of all Members to Financial Regulation 5.6, which provides that instalments of contributions shall be considered as due and payable in full by the first day of the year to which they relate, and to the importance of paying contributions as early as possible to enable the Director-General to implement the budget in an orderly manner; 3. REMINDS Members that, as a result of the adoption, by resolution WHA41.12, of an incentive scheme to promote the timely payment of assessed contributions, those that pay their assessed contributions early in the year in which they are due will have their contributions payable for a subsequent budget reduced appreciably, whereas Members paying later will see their contributions payable for that subsequent budget reduced only marginally or not at all; 4. URGES Members that are systematically late in the payment of their contributions to take immediate steps to ensure prompt and regular payment; 5. REQUESTS the Director-General and the Regional Directors to intensify contacts with Member States to pay their outstanding contributions;
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6. REQUESTS the Director-General to review, taking into account developments in other organizations in the United Nations system, current financial arrangements and to propose other possibilities to promote early payments with a view to ensuring a sound financial basis for programmes, and to report on this matter to the Executive Board at its 105th session and to the Fifty-third World Health Assembly; 7. FURTHER REQUESTS the Director-General to draw this resolution to the attention of all Members.
Ninth plenary meeting, 24 May 1999 A52/VR/9
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