It continued to be characterized by serious delays in the payment of assessed contributions, their partial payment or even non payment.

C. Status of assessed contributions

25. In addition to payments of current assessments, Member States have made arrearage payments of 15 million.

Increase (decrease) in contributions or payments received in advance

In conclusion, she listed the countries that were up to date with the payment of their contributions, including those that had made payments recently.

C. Status of assessed contributions

Since Poland had also paid its assessments for the two International Tribunals, 79 countries were up to date with their contributions to the budgets of the Tribunals that was far from enough to finance its functioning.

With only two months to go before the end of the year, more than half of regular budget assessments remained unpaid and only 111 States had fully paid their assessed contributions compared with 118 at the same time the previous year.

Nonetheless, on 30 April 2005, 18 Member States had paid all their due and payable assessments for the regular budget, the tribunals and peacekeeping operations in full, not counting the assessments issued on 27 April, that were still within the 30 day due period.

We cannot accept that any Member State is entitled to withhold payments unilaterally or that the assessment of those countries that will not pay their dues should be picked up by others.

As far as the International Tribunals were concerned, the slight improvement in the payment of assessments should not obscure the fact that 113 countries had made only partial payments or had not made any payments.

Measures to encourage the payment of arrears

Once the required annual debt service payment amount was reached, the trustee would no longer set aside any portion of the assessment payments, which would then be fully directed to the United Nations regular budget.

Ninety nine per cent of all assessments has been paid, only 1 per cent has not been paid.

It regretted that late payment of assessments, essentially by the biggest contributors and a handful of others, and non payment of assessments by some other Member States, was forcing the Organization to consistently retain funds.

The portion of the assessment due for plan debt service, or assessed plan debt service , would be 10 per cent of 52 million, or 5.2 million.

It expressed its concern at the delay in the payment of contributions thus far and urged countries that had not yet done so to pay their contributions in full as soon as possible so that the preparatory work could continue and the exercise could be held on the scheduled dates.

Pakistan had paid its regular and Tribunal budget assessments in full and on time.

Takes note of the status of contributions to the United Nations Operation in Burundi as at 15 April 2005, including the contributions outstanding in the amount of 88.7 million United States dollars, representing some 25 per cent of the total assessed contributions, notes with concern that only forty three Member States have paid their assessed contributions in full, and urges all other Member States, in particular those in arrears, to ensure payment of their outstanding assessed contributions

Upon receipt of payment of the promised assessed contribution from your Government, that payment (up to the amount of the advance drawn) will be transferred into the Revolving Credit Fund to liquidate the advance.

At the end of September 1998, unpaid assessments aggregated 2,507 million, including assessments within the 30 day due period.

The high levels of outstanding assessed contributions for the regular budget of the Organization and the considerable negative cash position of the International Tribunals, which stood at 80 million as of 15 October 2004, were cause for concern, as was the fact that 113 countries had outstanding assessed contributions for the budgets of one or both of the Tribunals.

Takes note of the status of contributions to the United Nations Mission in Liberia as at 15 April 2005, including the contributions outstanding in the amount of 96.0 million United States dollars, representing some 7 per cent of the total assessed contributions, notes with concern that only sixty three Member States have paid their assessed contributions in full, and urges all other Member States, in particular those in arrears, to ensure payment of their outstanding assessed contributions

Income consists of assessed contributions from the States Parties.

The ratio between assessments and payments had improved slightly, to 47 per cent of assessments at the end of 2003 and 61 per cent at the end of 2004.

It also noted that, as a result of that aggression, the Government had been unable to make a number of essential payments, including its assessed contributions to the United Nations.

He further intended to pay some of the arrears when Member States remitted substantial payments of their arrears, as had occurred in 1996 when the Russian Federation had paid over 200 million in arrears.

Exchange rate of assessed contributions paid in US

The financial situation of the International Tribunals remained a matter of concern, despite the slight decrease in the amount of unpaid contributions 113 Member States had paid only a part of their assessments and 13 had made no contributions as yet.

Expresses its appreciation to those Member States which have paid their assessed contributions in full, and urges all other Member States to make every possible effort to ensure payment of their assessed contributions to the Mission in full

Expresses its appreciation to those Member States that have paid their assessed contributions in full, and urges all other Member States to make every possible effort to ensure payment of their assessed contributions to the Force in full

The 41 per cent increase in outstanding assessed contributions meant that less cash was available and the ageing of unpaid assessments was cause for concern.

The current rate of assessment for the largest contributor was, in fact, below its capacity to pay.

To some extent, the situation at the end of September reflected amounts outstanding and unpaid in respect of peacekeeping assessments which had been issued only in July and August 1997 and many Member States which normally paid on time were expected to pay their recent assessments shortly.

Projections through the end of 2005 are based on the past pattern of payments, including those of the major contributor.

Over the period from 1980 to 1997, 90 per cent of all regular budget assessments have been paid, leaving 10 per cent unpaid.

3. Notes with concern the levels of unpaid assessed contributions, and urges Member States to pay their assessed contributions on time, in full and without conditions

Regrettably, as at 15 October, only 111 Member States had paid their assessed contributions to the regular budget in full, 78 Member States had fully paid their assessed contributions to the budgets of the International Tribunals, and 18 had fully paid their assessed contributions to the peacekeeping budget.

b Payment in 2005 to be 5 million plus 2005 assessments of 350,000.

2. Expresses its appreciation to those Member States which have paid their assessed contributions in full, and urges all other Member States to make every possible effort to ensure payment of their assessed contributions to the Mission in full

2. Expresses its appreciation to those Member States which have paid their assessed contributions in full, and urges all other Member States to make every possible effort to ensure payment of their assessed contributions to the Operation in full

Expresses its appreciation to those Member States which have paid their assessed contributions in full, and urges all other Member States to make every possible effort to ensure payment of their assessed contributions to the Operation in full

Expresses its appreciation to those Member States that have paid their assessed contributions in full, and urges all other Member States to make every possible effort to ensure payment of their assessed contributions to the Force in full

Of the 103 Member States that still had unpaid assessed contributions to one or both tribunals, 12 had not paid any assessments for the tribunals since their inception.

Although, the number of Member States that had paid their assessed peacekeeping contributions in full rose in 2004, it was still significantly below the 124 Member States that had paid their regular budget assessments in full.