UN General Assembly opens us$ 50 million credit for one-year financing of MINURSO

The United Nations General Assembly has opened credits worth US$ 50.4 million to finance the MINURSO, French acronym for the mission supervising the holding of a referendum in the Sahara, over the period extending between July 1st, 2001 and June 30, 2002.

Under a resolution contained in its latest reports on peace-keeping operations financing, the general assembly allocates this budget under reserves that the security council decides to extend the MINURSO mission beyond next June 30.

The general assembly said a monthly amount of US$ 4.2 million will be disbursed. It also decided to deduce for member states who paid their contribution the surplus in the funds unused up to next June 30 (US$ 2.9 million). Member states which have not paid their contribution will have the unused funds deduced from the non-paid contributions.

The assembly has allocated a total of US$ 1.8 billion for all of the 12 peace keeping missions worldwide. The most considerable funds went to the mission in East-Timor (US$ 563 million), Sierra Leone (US$ 550 Mln), Kosovo (US$ 400 Mln) and the Democratic Republic of Congo (USD 273 Mln).