UN member states, especially developed industrialised nations, should provide adequate and timely financial contributions to ensure successful implementation of the UN mandates, said a Vietnamese diplomat.
Vietnam ’s Charge d’affaires to the UN, Ambassador Bui The Giang made the call while delivering a statement to the Administrative and Budgetary (Fifth) Committee on Item 131 “Improving the financial situation of the UN” in New York on October 21.
The ambassador said understanding, cooperation and appropriate financial assistance mechanisms are needed for some member states, particularly those developing countries and LDCs that have been hit extremely hard by the global economic and financial crisis to overcome both immediate and long-term consequences of the crisis and to move along with other better recovered states.
He emphasised the importance of effective and efficient use of the increasingly scarce resources and called on the UN Secretariat to further improve its accountability and efficiency by making more concrete improvements in the areas of administration, management, allocation and utilization of the limited resources at its disposal so as to eliminate waste and duplication.
Giang acknowledged the positive projection of year-end cash positions for all funds for this year and commended the 119 member states that have paid in full and timely their dues to the UN regular budget. “This is particularly laudable for the developing countries that have suffered heavily from the global economic and financial crisis and are still facing formidable challenges in fully realizing all MDGs by 2011,” he said.
However, the diplomat voiced his concerns over the lingering destructive consequences of the said crisis as well as its uneven, fragile and slow recovery which combined are to blame for the unpaid regular budget and international tribunals assessments in case of some countries.
This, he said, is also responsible for the drop this year from the last year level in the number of states that have fully paid for capital master plan assessments, for peacekeeping assessments and for all-category assessments./.
Vietnam ’s Charge d’affaires to the UN, Ambassador Bui The Giang made the call while delivering a statement to the Administrative and Budgetary (Fifth) Committee on Item 131 “Improving the financial situation of the UN” in New York on October 21.
The ambassador said understanding, cooperation and appropriate financial assistance mechanisms are needed for some member states, particularly those developing countries and LDCs that have been hit extremely hard by the global economic and financial crisis to overcome both immediate and long-term consequences of the crisis and to move along with other better recovered states.
He emphasised the importance of effective and efficient use of the increasingly scarce resources and called on the UN Secretariat to further improve its accountability and efficiency by making more concrete improvements in the areas of administration, management, allocation and utilization of the limited resources at its disposal so as to eliminate waste and duplication.
Giang acknowledged the positive projection of year-end cash positions for all funds for this year and commended the 119 member states that have paid in full and timely their dues to the UN regular budget. “This is particularly laudable for the developing countries that have suffered heavily from the global economic and financial crisis and are still facing formidable challenges in fully realizing all MDGs by 2011,” he said.
However, the diplomat voiced his concerns over the lingering destructive consequences of the said crisis as well as its uneven, fragile and slow recovery which combined are to blame for the unpaid regular budget and international tribunals assessments in case of some countries.
This, he said, is also responsible for the drop this year from the last year level in the number of states that have fully paid for capital master plan assessments, for peacekeeping assessments and for all-category assessments./.
