OEA/Ser.P
AG/RES. 1754 (XXX-O/00)
6 June 2000
Original: Spanish

 RESOLUTION

PROGRAM-BUDGET OF THE ORGANIZATION FOR 2001

(Resolution adopted at the fourth plenary session, held on June 6, 2000)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN the Report of the Preparatory Committee on the Proposed Program-Budget of the Organization for 2001 (AG/doc.3919/00), and

CONSIDERING:

That, under Articles 54 and 55 of the Charter, the General Assembly is responsible for approving the Organization’s program-budget and for "fixing the quota that each Government is to contribute to the maintenance of the Organization";

That, in resolution AG/RES. 1697 (XXIX-O/99), operative section III.B.3.a, the General Assembly instructed the Secretary General to submit a proposed program-budget for the Regular Fund no higher than US$80,000,000; however, it also suggested in that resolution that the amount of the budget proposal may be less if estimated revenues from quotas and miscellaneous income are below that amount;

That, based on the General Secretariat’s best estimates of revenue for the 2001 fiscal year from quotas and miscellaneous income (including rental income from the General Secretariat Building and contributions for technical supervision and administrative support from FEMCIDI and the Specific Funds), the Subcommittee on Administrative and Budgetary Matters of the Preparatory Committee of the General Assembly has recommended that the Regular Fund budget not exceed US$76,000,000; and

That the 2001 proposed program-budget presented by the Secretary General to the Preparatory Committee in March 2000 requires reformulation, taking into account the discussion on priorities which took place at the Permanent Council meeting of May 22, 2000, and the dialogue on the financial situation of the Organization which is programmed for the thirtieth regular session of the General Assembly, in June 2000,

RESOLVES:

1. To instruct the Secretary General to reformulate the 2001 proposed program-budget and present it to the Preparatory Committee no later than August 15, 2000, taking into account the following:

1. The need to produce a Regular Fund program-budget that does not exceed $76,000,000;
2. The discussion on the priorities identified by member states, which took place at the Permanent Council meeting of May 22, 2000;
3. The dialogue on the financial situation of the Organization which took place at the thirtieth regular session of the General Assembly, in Windsor, Canada; >
4. The resolutions and decisions with budgetary implications adopted by the General Assembly at its thirtieth regular session, in Windsor, Canada; and
5. The comments and recommendations of the Board of External Auditors for the year ending December 31, 1999.

2. To instruct the Permanent Council to convene no later than October 15, 2000, a special session of the General Assembly to consider and approve the 2001 program-budget, the 2001 quotas, and other matters related to the program-budget and basis of financing of the Organization.