UNITED NATIONS Distr. )GENERAL GENERAL A/3767 ASSEMBLY 5 December 1957 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH
Twelfth session Agenda item 48
ADMINISTRATIVE AND BUDGETARY CO...QRDTIIJATION BETWEEN THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE SPECIALIZED AGENCIES Administrative budgets of the specialized agencies for 1958 Twenty-eighth report of ifhe Advisory COillllli ttee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions to the twelfth session of the General Assembly
1. In accordance with its terms of reference, the Advisory COilllllittee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions has examined the administrative budgets or budget estimates for 1958 of the following specialized agencies, whose agreements with the United Nations provide for transmittal of their budgets for review by the General Assembly:-1/ International' Labour Organisation (ILO); Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO); Universal Postal Union (UPU); World Health Organization (WHO); International Telecommunication Union ( ITU); Horld Meteorological Organization (HMO). 2. The Advisory Committee offers, in paragraphs 3 to 23 below, comments on
certain general ~uestions arising out of its review of the 1958 budgets of these agencies. In addition, specific points with regard to the budgets of individual
agencies are dealt with in subse~uent paragraphs. A consolidated summary of· appropriations or estimates by main heads of expenditure, compared with the
corresponding figures for 19571 is also presented in respect of each of the
~/ Under the relevant agreements with the United Nations, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Monetary Fund are not re~uired to transmit their budgets for examination by the United Nations. 57-33859 ; ... II A/3767 English Page 2
agencies in order to show in condensed form the information contained in Information Annex III to the United Nations budget estimates for the financial .year 1958 (A/36oO/Add,l, PP• 4-7).gj
GENERAL APPRAISAL 3, The gross totals of the 1958 budgets or budget estimates of these agencies and the United Nations are shown in the following table, together with the appropriation figures for 1957 and actual expenditure figures for each of the four years 1953, 1954, 1955 and 1956:
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1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1958 increase Percentage Actual Actual Actual Actual Appropri- Appropri- or decrease increase or expenses expenses expenses expenses ations ations or by comparison decrease by estilllates with 1957 comparison Dollars (us) Dollars (us) Dollars (us) Dollars (us) Dollars (US) Dollars (us) Dollars (us) with 1957
rw!l 6,509, 775 6, 754,878 7,041,474 7,290,575 7, 716,708 8,073,901 357,193 4.63 FAO 5,064,399 5,500,268 5,974,192 6, 397,561 7,071,000 8,61.o,4ootd 1,539,4oO 21.77 UNESCO 7,972,937 9,019,408 9, 150,533 1.1,437,197 ll, 724,746 l2,124,6o9 399,863 3.41 ICAO 3,150,032 3,086,747 3,255,335 3, 348,596 3, 667,732 3, 592,901 (- 74,831) (- 2.04) UPU 435,413 432,71.1 429,328 441,157 655,290 566,355 (- 88,935) (- 13-57) WHO 8,ll2,6o5 8, 134,514 9,275,300 9,982,794 12,550,000-c/ 13,566,1309) 1,016,130 8.10
ITU 1,455,733 1, 327,292 1,29Q,884 1,684,933 1, 605,665 2,1.16,541 510,876 31.82
WMO 271,9ll 326,922 394,653 371.,316 438,401 455,823 17,422 3.97 Sub-total (specialized agencies) 321 972,8o5 34,582,74o 36,8ll,699 4o,954,129 45,429,542 49, 106, 66o 3,677,1.18 8.09 United Nations 49,292,552 48, 51.0, 009 5o,o89,8o8 50,508,095 50,815,700~ 54,782,500!/ 3,966,8oo 7.81
GRAND TOTAL 82,265,357 83,092,749 86, 901, 507 91,462,224 96,245,242 1.03,889,16o 7,643,918 7.94 'UO
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Footnotes to table on ~age 3.
The following rates of exChange have been used in the above table: Canadian dollar at ~r; Swiss francs at Sw. frs. 4.28 : $USl.OO.
~ Figures for the years 1953 to 1955 include $2501 000 eaCh year for the reorganized Working Ca~ital Fund;.credits from the original Fund totalling $245,717 for eaCh of these years have not been taken into account. £1 Director~eneral's budget submission to the Ninth Conference. Including $50,000 to be carried forward to 1959 for 1959 Conference.
£I Including su~plementary· amount of $11 525 1 000 a~~ro~riated by the Ninth World Health Assembly. The amount of the undistributed reserve, excluded from the figure shown in the table, is $1,040,420.
~/ Excluding undistributed reserve of $1,2031 030. ~ Excluding ~ossible su~~lementary appro~riations. !/ Estimate only; excluding ~ossible revisions before ado~ion of the budget and su~plementary estimates during 1958.
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4. The aggregate of the 1958 ~propriations or estimates of the eight specialized
agencies shows. an increase of $3,677 1118 or 8.09 per cent, over the 1957
appropriations. The budgets of the same agencies increased by $4,1911 024, or 10.23 per cent, between the years 195P and 1957. Significant increases occur in
t~e budgets of FAO ($1,5391 400, or 21.77 per cent) and WHO ($1,016,1301 or
8.10 per cent); increases also occur in ITU ($510 1 876 1 or 31.82 per cent),
UNESCO ($399,863, or 3.41 per cent), ILO ($357 1193, or 4.63 per cent) and
~0 ($17,422, or 3.97 per cent) •. ICAO and UPU show decreases of $74,8311 or 2.04 per cent, and $88,935, or 13.57 per cent, respectively, the large proportionate decrease in UPU peing attributable to the fact that the 1957 budget of that agency included a sizable provision, not repeated in the 1958 budget, for the quinquennial Congress. 5. The Advisory Committee has already commented, in its report on the 1958 budget estimates of the Unite.d Nations (A/3624) ,"»on the increase in these estimates by cpmparison with the 1957 appropriations.
6. XU its report on the 1957 budgets of the specialized agencies (A/34891 paras. 6-7) ,!if the Advisory Committee, in commenting on the continuing upward trend of these budgets emphasized the need for a framework to guide the
development of United Nations and ~ency programmes in order to ensure a maximum return from the increasing outlays. On the Committee's recommendation, the General Assembly, on 27 February 1957, adopted resolution 1094 (XI) by which it requested the Economic and Social Council to study the matters raised in the Advisory Committee's report concerning en appraisal of the over-all programmes to be undertaken by the United Nations and the specialized agencies in the economic and social fields over the next five or si~ years, end to report thereon to the General Assembly at its thirteenth session. 7. Pursuant to this r~~uest, the Council, on 1 August 1957 adopted resolution 665 C (XXIV)2/ in which were outlined various steps designed towards a general survey of the activities of the United Nations end the specialized agencies in the economic, social and human rights fie~ds end a forecast of the
2/ ~fficial Records of the General AssGmbly, Twelfth Session, SupplElient No. 7• !if Ibid., Eleventh Session, .Annexes, agei)da iten 49. 5./ Parts A, B and D of· tl::is resolution also relate to the question of the development and co-ordination of the economic, social and human rights programmes and activities of the United Nations and the specialized agencies. The Council also adopted resolution 664 (XXIV) on the subject of concentration of activities in these fields. ; ... II A/3767 English Page 6
scope and trend of programmes and expenditures during the five"year period 1959-1964, In tald.ng this decision, the Council carried forward the successive efforts it has made since 1950 towards the co"ordination, concentration and orderly development of these programmes, 8. In accordance with the provisions of the Council's resolution, the Administrative Committ~e on Co-ordination (Ace),§/ at its October 1957 session, considered various preliminary ~uestions concerning the method of undertald.ng the five"year appraisals. A report on this subject will be submitted by ACC to the twenty-sixth (1958 summer) session of the Council). 9, The Advisory Committee would emphasize, in order to clarify the intent behind its recommendations to the eleventh session of the General Assembly, that the forward"look would, in its view, be in terms of the general scope and trend of broad segments of the programmes, rather than of a rigid blue-print of detailed projects to be undertaken over a period of several years, At present there is a wide range in the degree of forward plan1ing, even in a broad sense, of programmes among .the organizations, Special problems will no doubt arise in some of the organizations in attempting to define long-term trends in programmes, It should, however; be possible to solve such problems " with sufficient margin for flexibility " in the interest of an prderly planning of over"all international effort in the. economic and social fields,
§/ C~osed of the Secretary"General· of the United Nations and the executive heads of the specialized agencies. / ... A/3767 English Page 7
ESTABLISHED POSTS, TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE AND CONSULTANTS I 10. The number of established posts authorized or requested under the regular budgets (i.e, excluding the Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance and other extra-budgetary programmes) for the three years 1956, 1957 and 1958 is as follows:
1956 1957 1958
ILO II lo ' lo lo e • lo • II II II II II II II II II II t II II II II II II II II II 868 872 889 FAO ...... 974 996 l,o85 UNESCO •••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1,010 991 1,002
ICAO II II I II II II II II I II lo II II II II II II I II II II II II II II II II II 4o8 435 431 UPU ...... 34 35 35 WHO ...... l,Oll 1,070 l,ll9 ITU ...... 205 205 220 WMO ...... 55 58 62 Sub-total, specialized agencies 4,565 4,662 4,843 United Nations ...... 3,945 4,314 4,398 TOTAL 8,510 8,976 9,241 11. Total expenditure on salaries, wages and allowances is expected to increase from some $61.9 million to about $65,8 million. The major part of the increase, to the tune of about $2.5 million, occurs in the cost of established posts, with increases also in temporary assistance, consultants and for staff allowances.
SALARY, ALLOWANCE AND BENEFITS SYSTEM 12. The Advisory Committee has inquired into the action taken, or proposed to be taken, by the several agencies in regard to the decisions and recommendations of the General Assembly (resolution 1095 (XI) of 27 February 1957) concerning revisions in the common United Nations salary, allowance end benefits system. 13. Prior to the adoption of resolution 1095 (XI), the following agencies, in addit,ion to the Uni.ted Nations, generally adheredi/ to the common salary, allowance and benefits system which was approved by the Assembly in 1950 (resolution 470 (V)): ILO, FAO, UNESCO, ICAO, WHO and WMO. UPU and ITU did not participate in the common system, nor did the International Bank or the Monetary Fund.
II There were variations among the agencies where salaries at very senior levels were concerned. / ••• A/3767 English Page 8
14, All the organizations which had adopted the common salary system.evolved in 1950 have also generally accepted the elements of the reviaed.system. The Advisory Committee summarizes below, for the information pf the General Assembly, the action taken in this regard in the several organizations, particular note being taken of departures from the Assembly's recommendations: (a) ILO: The Governing Body, at its l34th (March 1957) and l35th (June 1957)
sessions, approved, with effect from 1 January 19571 the revised common system, as recommended by the General Assembly, with the exception that it was decided to apply, effective l June 1957, a class 2 post adjustment to the salaries of staff members in the Professional and higher categories at Geneva.~/ (b) FAO: The Council, in June 1957, approved the introduction, effective 1 January 1957, of the revised common system and, as recommended by the General Assembly, Rome was placed in class 2 for purposes of post adjustment. (c) UNESCO: The General Conference, at its session held in November- December 1956, authorized the Director-General, subject to the approval of the Executive Board, to proceed ;~th the implementation of such elements of the revised system as he considered desirable and practicable, provided that any such revisions made prior to the tenth (1958) session of the Conference were in general conformity with the measures adopted by the General Assembly. The revised system, as recommended by the Assembly,· has since been applied in UNESCO from 1 January 1957, with Paris being placed in class 4 for purposes of post adjustment, Following the recent financial measures adopted by the Government of France, which, so far as UNESCO is concerned, have the effect of increasing the exchange value of the dollar· in French francs from 350 to 420, the Executive Board will consider, at .its November 1957 session, the question of altering the classification of Paris for post adjustment purposes. (d) ICAO: The Council of ICAO, at a special meeting in September 1957, approvAd, with effect from 1 January 1957, the main features of the revised common system as recommended by the General Assembly accepting for Montreal a class 4 post adjustment to the salaries of staff members in the Professional and Director category pending a comparative study of cost-of-living data for
The General Assembly had recommended (paragraph 3 of resolution B l A/3767 English Page 9 the Geneva/MOntreal areas. As regards the General Service category, a provisional adjustment in aalar~es was introduced pending the outcome of· a comparative study of wages paid by the best employers in Montreal. (e) UPU: UPU has not applied the common system in respect of ita Bureau. It ~ras, ho~rever, agreed at the 1957 session of the Eltecutive and Liaison Committee that a sub-committee should study the question of the appropriate salary scales to.be applied to the Union's personnel. The recommendations of the sub committee will be considered by the Executive and Liaison Committee at its 1958 session. (f) WHO: At its nineteenth session in January 19571 the Executive Board generally approved, the recommendations of the Salary Review Committee for application from 1 January 1957. The acceptance of the new system was conditional on its adoption in substantially the same form by the United Nations General Assembly. The World Health Assembly, at its May 1957 session, decided that, subject to the adoption of a similar decision by the ILO Governing Body, Geneva should be placed, effective 1 June 1957, in class 2 for purposes of post adjustment. This decision has now become operative, following similar action by the Governing Body of the ILO.~/ (g) ITU: The Administrative Council, in May 1957, reviewed the salary structure and rates in ITU end decided to adhere, in principle, to the United Nations common system, since existing ITU scales no longer corresponded to the realities of the situation. An immediate complete assimilation to the common system was not, however, considered possible until.the question of the ITU' s participation in the Joint staff Pension Fund could be studied further and resolved.lO/ ' As a transitional measure, the Council approved revised arrangements, effective 1 January 1958, under which the salary structure ~rould be CO!lqlarable to the common system, with rates of salaries some 10 to 15 per cent below the Geneva base (class 1) rates under the common system. ~/ See sub-paragraph (a) and footnote 8 above. 10/ At present ITU has separate pension arrangements for ita staff. j ••. II A/3767 English Page 10 (b) WMO: The EKecuti'Ve Committee, at its session held in September October 1957, decided to apply to the staff of WMO, with retroactive effect from 1 January 1957, the provisions of the revised common system,!!/ The EKecutive Committee further decided that Geneva should be placed in class 2 for purposes of post adjustment with effect from the same date as the General Assembly may decide for the United Nations Office at Geneva. WOBKING CAPITAL FUND 15. The amounts approved or proposed for the Working Capital Fund in the various organizations are shown in the following table: 1958 gross budget Working Capital Fund Percentage of 1958 gross budget Dollars (us) Dollars (us) ILO 8,073,901 1,25o,oocft/ 15.48 FAO 8,423,050 1,9oo,oo0£1 22.08 UNESCO 12,124,609 3,ooo,ooo 24.74 ICAO 3,592,901 1,097,6oc!d 30.55 UPU 566,355 ~/ WHO 13,566,130 3,395,55~/ ITU 2,ll6,541 ~I viMO 455,823 !./ United Nations 54,782,500 22,ooo,ooo 4o.l6 _[:Footnotes to table on following page:_? !!/ WMO, however, nBP.S a smll.ller number of incremental steps for each of the levels of the Professional category except P-1. I ... I A/3767 English Page.ll Footnotes to table on preceding page. ~ Authorized level of Working Capital Fund as constituted by moneys placed in the Fund by States Members. This together with ILO Reserve Fund which nmr forms part of the Working Capital Fund amounted to $2,643,851 at 31 October 1957. pj Amount recozmnended by the FAO Council to the Conference. Represents an increase of $150,000 from the current level of $1,7501 000. ~ As at 31 October 1957. On the same date, the cash standing to the credit of the Fund was $886,663 (Canadian), or 24.68 per cent of the 1958 gross budget. The Council of ICAO will study the question of fixing the level of its Working Capital Fund with a fixed value per unit of assessment to be directly related to the General Fund current scale of contributions totallingl,5CO basic units. 2} In the case of UPU1 the working expenses of the International Bureau are advanced by the Swiss Government. Such advances must be repaid at the earliest possible date and any sums outstanding on 31 December of the year of account carry interest as from that date at 5 per cent per annum. In principle, ITU is in a s1mila1· position, but, in fact, as a result of accumulated savings during the last few years, no advances have been requested of the Swiss Government since 1953. ~/ Includes unpaid advances from China and "inactive" Members in the amount of $245,695· !/ The Working Capital Fund of WMO is subject to a maximum limit of 10 per cent of the contributions during the first financial period 1951-19551 but only 7 per cent was levied in each of these years. At the end of the period the capital of the Fund stood at $961 772. The Second Congress of \iMC' decided that Members would not be required to make further advances to the Fund during the se~ond financial period 1956-1959. A/3767 English Page 12 COLLECTION OF CONTRIBUTIONS 16. The rate of collection of contributions, and in particular in the early months of the year, has an important bearing on the level at which the Working Capital Fund has to be maintained. The following table shows, in respect of l9!i6 and 1957, the percentage of the current year's contributions collected at 30 June and 30 September, together •lith the total of contributions outstanding at the later date: Percentage of current year's Total of all contributions contributions collected at outstanding at 30 September 30 June 30 September 1956 1957 1956 1957 1956 1957 Dollars (US) Dollars (us) ILO 41.22 41. 6~/ 81. 39 77-17'!2./ 2,559,665 2,407,299 FAO 67.81 55.40 94.34 82.85 1,980,664£/ 21 779' 01 or:.! UNESCO 33.ll 30.4(}!:./ 74.60 8o.4ffll 7,890,714 8,158,653 ICAO 55.42 65.o6 82.38 87.30 1,429,27~/ 1,324,937.!:./ UPU 68.48 70.07 76.22 81.58 117,360 94,430 vmrf./ 34.40 ,32.90 87.60 90.50 ,8,993,330 5,4ll,381 ITU 89-ll 86.48 89.92 89·58 127,297 131,643 WMO 64.4o 65.63 93.05 87.75 50,292 81,124 United Nations~/ 26.32 30.o6 78.20 69.93 13,801,281 17,301,353 LFootnotes to table on following page~ ; ... A/3767 English 'I Page 13 Footnotes to table on preceding page. ~/ Includes $5,007 contributions assessed after the adoption of the budget. £/ Includes $98,536 contributions assessed after the adoption of the budget. ~/ Figure for each year includes $1,3o6,724 due from former member Governments. iJ:./ Includes budget surpluses distributed and refunds on the Working Ca. pi tal Fund. ::/ Canadian dolla.rs a. t par. !./ Percentage of current year's contributions excludes "inactive" Members and China.. The outstanding contributions figure is made up as follows: 30 September 1956 30 September 1957 ~Inactive" Members 5,604,843 1,457,405 China 3,267,858 3,848,808 ' other Members 120,629 105,168 8,993,330 5,4ll,381 In addition, there are outstanding contributions in the amount of $817,683 pertaining to those Members who have resumed active participation in 1957. This amount is not included in the above figures, s.s it represents instalments which will be payable in accordance with resolution WHA 9·9 of the Ninth World Health Assembly. These instalments are outstanding, but are not considered to be in arrears. ~/ Excluding the 1955 and 1956 assessments for the new Members. I ... A/3767 English Page 14 17. The Advisory Committee recommends t~t the legislative bodies of the several organizations should suggest to their Member Governments the payment in the early months of the ye~r of an increasing proportion, if not the whole, of their assessed contributions. This is important in order to avoid the need to increase the level of the.Working Capital Fund; it may indirectly also have some impact on the level of.the budget itself. 18. The scales of assessment according to which the net 1958 appropriations of the United Nations and the larger of the specialized agencies are proposed to be allocated among Member States are shown in an annex to the present report. ADMINISTRATIVE AND BUDGETARY CO-ORDINATION 19. In accordance with the >~ishes which the General Assembly expressed at its ninth (19511-) and tenth (1955) sessions,12/ and in response to invitations received from the organizations concerned, the Advisory Committee has completed special studies of the administrative and financial procedures of the ILO, FAO, UNESCO, v/HO and viMO, with particular reference to their activities under the Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance, These studies which were undertaken at the respective headquarters of the organizations, are the subject of separate reports13/ which the Advisory Committee has submitted to the eleventh and t;1elfth sessions of the General Assembly. 20. The Advisory Committee intends during .1958 1 after completing studies in respect of ICAO and ITU, to submit to the General Assembly an over-all report on administrative and budgetary co-ordination between the United Nations and the specialized agencies, >~ith special reference to the Expanded Programme. 21. Follo;,ing a request by the Technical Assistance Committee in terms of General Assembly resolution 1037 (XI) of 26 February 1957, the Advisory Committee ~/ Official Records of the General Assembl , Ninth Session, Annexes, agenda item 3, document A 2 1, para. 10; Ibid., Tenth Session, Annexes, agenda item 45, document A/3098, para. 8; also General Assembly resolutions 884 (IX) of 14 December 1954 and 972 (X) of 15 December 1955· 13/ A/3142 (ILO), A/3166 (UNESCO), A/3596 (l/HO), A/3597 (l!MO) and A/3598 (FAO), i/ ... I A/3767 English Page 15 has reviewed the 1958 estimates of the administrative and operational services costs of the Expanded Programme. The Committee 1 s comments in this regard will be found in document A/5738 l·lhich includes some further observations on the question of the identification and allocation. of these costs as between the regular4/ budgets of the organizations and the Special Account of the Expanded Programme,!_ ******** \ 14/ The Advisory Committee offered some preliminary comments on this subject in its special report on FAO (A/3598, paras. 65-71). I ... A/3767 I English Page 16 DETAILED COMMENTS ON 1958 BUDGEI'S OF AGENCIES 22, The Advi~ory Committee offers below comments on specific points in the 1958 budgets or estimates of the various specialized agencies. International Labour Organisation 1957 1958 Appropriations Appropriations Dollars (US) Dollars (us) Personal services ·.• . • • 5,506,557 5,819,ll4 General services • • • • • • '2,054,151 2,084, 787 Special projects and activities . .• . 150,000 164,000 Other budgetary provisions • • • • 6,ooo 6,ooo Total (gross) .• • • 7,716,708 8,073,901 Less: Casual revenue ••• • • • • 99,000 101,000 Total (net) • • • • • • • 7,972,901 23. The Advisory Committee had an opportunity to discuss the 1958 budget of the ILO With the Director-Ge~eral of the International Labour Office. 24, The gross budget for 1958 shows an increase of $35711931 or 4.63 per cent over the 1957 appropriations, the major part of the increase, in an amount of some $250 1 000 1 being attributable to the introduction of the revised salary system. Of this $250,000, some $118,000 is accounted for by the application of a class 2 post ~ment for Geneva, 25. ~~ volume of meetings, on which attention has been focused in recent years, continues to pose administrative and budgetary problems. As an immediate partial solution, the ILO has cut down on the programme of meetings for 1958: it has scheduled only t~ro of the six meetings. of the Industrial Committees that were due to be held in 1958. The programme for 1958 is not, however, intended as an indication of the appropriate continuing level of meetings. That would depend to a great extent on the results of a general. review of the programme . of meetings of the Governing Body and its subsidiary bodies which is being undertaken by a special committee of the Governing Body. ; ... BGRML,. q; A/3767 English Page 17 26. The Advisory Committee understands in this connexion that the Governing Body is studying the possibility of a similar review of the organization and programme of meetings of a11 bodies of the ILO, including the International Labour Conference and its machinery, 27. Attention was drawn last year (A/3142, para. 36) to the study which the Director-General had instituted, of the ILO's organizational arrangements covering field offices, on the one hand, and branch offices and national correspondents, on the other. The Advisory Committee understands that, effective 1 October 1957, the two separate controlling units athead~uarters, namely the Technical Assistance Division and the External Services Division, have been merged to form a new Field Services Division which will have responsibility for all field and branch offices and correspondents. The new arrangement is not only more logical but is also e~ected to result in some economy, While, for the present, the arrangements in the field continue ~rithout change, this ~uestion is also under examination by the Director-General. Food and Agriculture Organization 1957 1958 Appropriations Estin:ates Dollars (US) Dollars (US) Personal services .• .• .• . .• 5,511,770 5,906,575 General services • • • • • 1,500, 730 1,686,825 Special projects and activities . .• . ·' 50,000 50,000 Other budgetary provisions • • • • 8,5ocJ!:.I 967,ooO'E/ Total (gross) 7,071,000 8,610,400 ~: Casual revenue • , , • • • • • • • 180,000 157,000 Total (net) 6,891,000 8,453,400 The original Contingency amount of $17,000 was transferred to "Personal services" to meet part of the revised salaries costs. £1 For breakdown see tabulation in para. 30 (a)-(h). I ... A/3767 English ~I Page 18 28. The Advisory Collllllittee, during its visit to the head~uarters of FAO in April to May 1957, undertook a broad over-all review of the administrative and budgetary aspects of the activities of that organization. n1e resultant report of the Committee (A/3598), thou@1 mainly concerned with the FAO's participation in the Expanded Programme of Tecl1nical Assistance, also toucl1ed upon certain 1 general ~uestions of secretariat structure, administration and finance, 29. The Collllllittee has since. had an opportunity of 'discussing with the Director General's representatives the details of the 1958 budget estimates of FAO. 30. For 1958, the Director-General has proposed a total gross budget of $8,610,400 representing ~n increase of $1,539,4oo,or 21.77 per cent, over the 1957 appropriations (including an estimated 1957 supplementary provision of $271,00o!2/ for the implementation of the revised salary system). In addition to the increased cost of implementing the basic, continuing programme of work, the 1958 budget estimates reflect: (a) Proposals for expansions in FAO's regional activities ($295,750);!§/ its publications programme ($199,600); and increased inter-agency co-operation ($75 1 500); (b) Provision for the Mediterranean Development Project whicl1 aims at reforestation and agricultural development of countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea ($94,700); (c) Provision for work in atomic energy in agriculture ($29,900); (d) Provision for strengthening the "elfare aspects of FA0 1 s work ($37,500); (e) Provision for alterations to premises (pending the construction of a new wing, With assistance from the Italian Government) ($171 500); (f) Provision for strengthening the Director-General's Office ($35,000); (g) Provision in respect of additional adjustments in General Service staff salaries ($39 1 000); and (h) Contingencies and certain administrative needs ($142,550), 31. As regards the Mediterranean Project, the Advisory Committee notes that the normal policy of financing basic surveys from the regularbudget ~>nd the provision oj assistance in respect of specific projects from the Expanded Programme funds, was, for practical reasons, reversed in this instance. It is signil'icant only because Tllio sv.·g~1lementar; provision is $41,000 short of the estimateCl total cost of ~;312,cco - a ,-covision of the previous estimate of $316,4-oo; $l~l,CCO •·•as reservecl by the Director-General for t!:is r;urpc£e in t!w 1957 budcet. 16/ See document A/5598, paragraphs 30-32 for an outline of the proposals for tile strengthening of the regional offices, and the Advisory Committee's comments thereon. I ... "' A/3767 English ' Page 19 FAO normally does not provide any "technical assistance" from its regular budget funds, While the approach in this case was probably justified, even under the Organization's own practice, it underlines the need for effective co-ordination, at the legislative as well as the executive level, of FAO's regular programme and its teclcnical assistance activities, 32. The Director-General has proposed, and the FAO Council has recommended, for approval by the Conference at its current 1957 session, a set of amenclments to the rules of procedure of the relevant bodies and to the financial regulations of FAO which would provide for a biennial budget for the Organization with effect from the financial period 1960-1961. Tlte Advisory Committee understands further that the Director-General will report in 1958 to the Committee on Financial Control on possible methods of simplifying the form of the FAO budget with a view to a closer integration of organizational arrangements in the secretariat and a more flexible and effective use of total available resources, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 1957 1958 Appropriations Appropriations Dollars. (US) Dollars {US) Personal services • • • • • 5,831,958 6,199,303 General services • • • • • • • • • 2,207,638 2,268,305 Special projects and activities • • 3,102,619 3,069,815 Other budgetary provisions 582,531 587,186 Total (gross). ll,724,746 l2,l:c4,6C9 Less: Casual revenue • . • • . • • • 191,368 263,632 Total (net) I I • I I I I ll,860,977 33, The Advisory Committee had an opportunity to discuss the 1958 budget of UNESCO with representatives of the Director-General of the organization. 34. While the increase in the UNESCO budget as between 1957 and 1958 is relatively small, .the total appropriation of $23,849,355 for the two years, ; ... I A/3767 English Page 20 which was approved by the General Conference at its 1956 biennial session, represented an increase of more than two million dollars over the 1955-1956 budget. 35. Attention was drawn in the Advisory Committee's report on the agency budgets for 1957 (A/3489, para.56)!1/ to certain organizational rearrang=ments which the Director-General proposed to the 1956 session of the Conference, with a view to a closer integration of the technical assistance and regular programmes of UNESCO. The Administrative Commission of the General Conference established a special ad hoc working group to review these proposals, which were aimed at the creation of a new "Bureau of Relations with Member States" in place of the then existing Technical Assistance Department, the Division of Relations with Member States and National Commissions and the separate unit in the Bureau of Programme and Budget dealing with the "participation" programme.;!;§/ 36, Following the report of the working group and the resultant decisions of the Conference, the new Bureau of Relations with Member States was established with effect from 4 February 1957• The new arrangements have contributed to a better co-ordination and integration of the regular and technical assistance programmes, both at the technical and the administrative levels. The Advisory Committee notes with special interest that, effective l September 1957, integration at the administrative level has been carried a step further through the transfer to the ' central administrative services of UNESCO of various personnel and general servicing functions hitherto performed by the Bureau of Relations with Member States. 37. The General Conference, in a resolution relating to the special study made by the Advisory Committee in 1956 (A/3166), invited the Director-~neral, in consul~ation with the Executive Board, to arrange for a survey (or surveys) on the administrative management of the organization, with a view to achieving maximum efficiency and economy. The Director-General has accordingly appointed a group of !1/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Eleventh Session, llnnexes, agenda item 49. ;!,§/ This is a programme of aid to Member States, financed from the regular budget of UNESCO. ; ... A/3767 English Page 21 three internationally known experts to undertake the survey, which is e:JCpected to be completed before the session of the Executive Board in April 1958. 38. A significant advance in the for1fard planning of progra.mmes has been made in UNESCO: with a preliminary discuss:l,on by the Exe<;lutive Board1 as early as June 19571 of a progra.mme and budget for 1959-1960. The Executive Board seems to contemplate a. moderate increase in the budget, including provision for. some expansion in progra.mmes and for the increased instalments towards repayment of ·~··· the Headquarters loan. The Advisory Committee notes with inte~est thtit''1;J;le 1959-1960 budget will also be presented in a simplified. form, projects ~eing consolidated into broad progra.mme segments and technical assistance projects integrated into the body of the programme rather than included a.s an appendix. 39· The Executive Board of UNESCO, which until 1956 was assisted by a Progra.mme Commission and a. Finance Commission, has been reorganized and now functions through an Administrative Commission (de~ing also With financial and legal matters) a.nd an External Relations Commission. As a result, broad policies in respect of programmes will be discussed by tl;le Board itself, whi1e related technical points, when they arise, will be studied by ad hoc committees. In vi<:lW of the creation of a strengthened Administrative Commission, it is unlikely, in the Director General t s view 1 that any additional machinery1 such· as the ad hoc Committee of Nine which was es~blished to review the 1957-1958 programme and budget, will be needed to examine administrative and financial ~estiona. ; ... A/3767 English Page 22 International Civil Aviation Organization . 1957 1958 Appropriations Appropriations Doll~:~-rs (US) Dollars (us) Personal services •••••••••••••••••••• 2,74.3,080 2,782,900 General services .•••...•..•.•..•. _•••.. 729,052 704,401 Special projects and activities •••••• 200,000 100,000 other budgetary provisions ••••••••••• (4,4oo) 5,6oo Total (gross),,,. 3,667,732 3,592,901 Less: Casual r~venue ••.•••.•.•.••.•• 501,005 505,000 Total (net) ••••• 3,166,727 3,087,901 4o~ The Adyisory Committee had an opportunity to discuss the 1958 budget of LCAO 'IIi th the Secretary-General of the Organization, 41. The 1958 gross budget of ICAO shows, in comparison 'With the 1957 appropriations, a reduction of $74,831, or a little more than 2 per cent. A )Dajor difference between the two years is that, for 1957, there was a p;rovision, not repeated for 1958, of $100,000 for a special Implementa·tion Panel. Tl:\e work of this Panel·is eJ~;Pected to be. completed in early 1958. 42. The Advisory Committee notes that in 1957 and 1958 there have been, or 'Will be 1 substantial advances from the Working Capital Fu:nd!2/ to finance various additional eJ~;Penditures. Thus the ICAO Council, on the basis of an authority granted by the Assembly, has appropriated for. each of the two years an amount of $100,000§Q/ from the Working Capital Fu;nd to meet additional eJ!l?enditures for carrying out approved work-programmes •. In addition, necessary advances, estimated at some $200,000 for 1957 and 1958 will be mad.e from the Fund in order te m~~'j; the cost of implementing the revised salary system. It is anticipated that the advances will be repaid throu~ supplementary assessments to be approved in 1958. !2/ The Fund stood at some $8oo,ooo as o:t' l October 1957. §Q/ 'It is eJ!l?ected,however1 that :t'or 1957 the amount will be reduced to some $80-85,000, as staffing arrangements for the additional work programme were not completed until the middle o:t' the year. A/3767 English Page 23 43. Follovdng an investigation during 1955 and 1956 of the establishment, organization and methods of the secretariat of ICAO, further efforts have been made towards the closer integration of the organization·• s technical assistance activities with its regular programme of work, Effective 1 January 1957, organizational arrangements relating to personnel and finance have been integrated with the regular administrative services for these functions, except that the. recruitment of eXperts and the selection of fellows have been retained within the Technical Assistance Bureau, Estimated costs of personnel connected with the EXpand.ed Programme are reimbursed out of funds allocated from the Special Account, The Advisory Committee intends, in connexion with the special study of ICAO which it proposes to make in 1958, to review these and other ~estions conce~ng the administration of the technical assistance programme in that cr[a~ization- 44. The Canadian Government suggested in 1956 that, should the ICAO Council favour the construction of an ICAO headCJ.uarters building in Montreal, that Government vrould gl.ve the most sympathetic consideration to a request for an interest-free loan to be amortized over a period of 25 or 30 years, While the present premises of ICAO in Montreal are considered satisfactory for the time being, the Council will shortly examine various ca.uestions arising out of the Canadian offer, 45. As regards permanent accommodatio.nin Paris for the ICAO Regl.onal Office for Europe and Africa, plans for locating this Office in the premises of the nevr UNESCO headca.uarters have fallen through, The UNESCO General Conference, at its 1956 session, decided that the third building which is proposed to be erected on the premises should be utilized to accomrodate the permanent delegations to UNESCO' the United Na~ions Information Centre, and a few internatio~ non-governmental organizations, A proposal to use the facilities. of the third building for locating the ICAO Regl.onal Office rather than the offices of permanent delegations vras not accepted, .. , A/3767 English Page 2~· Universal Postal Union 1957 1958 Appropriations Appropriations Dollars (us) Dollars (US) Personal services ·~·~······~·.··~·~-·~·.·~· 221,412 231,074 General services • , •• , ... , .. , . , •.•.•.•.•.•.•.•,. 194,392 215,421 Special projects and activiti.e.s. , , ...... 239,486 ll9,86o Other budgetary ~revisions •••••••••••••• Total (gross) ..... 655,290 566,355 Less: Casual revenue 82,593 23,598 Total (net) •••••• 572,697 542,757 46. Tbe follo1dng comments are based on a study of official documentation supporting the 1958 budget of UPU, 47. Tbe decrease in the 1958 budget, by comparison with 1957, reflects the fact that provision was ~ade in 1957 for the XIVth Universal Postal Union Congress which met at Ottawa, 48. While' UPU does not participate directly in the E:xpanded Progra=e of Technical Assistance, it.mw,es its contributions in this field by co-operating in the recruitment and training of postal e:xperts. and by providing them with appropriate documentary material and other information, 49. At the April 1957 session· of the Executive and Liaison Committee, a number of representatives urged a more active participation in technical assistance activities. It was agreed that the Bureau of the Union should study the possibility of organizing exchanges of technicians and students between postal administrations, of initiating seminars, and of collecting and disseminating information on a wider and better-defined basis than hitherto, / ... A/3767 English Page 25 ilorld Health Organization 1957 1958 Appropriations Appropriations Dollars (us) Dollars (us) Personal services ... , .• .. • .•.· .• .•.• .• .• •••.. 7,468,496 7,875,388 General services • f • f II I t •••• a II I e C II e C e 3,203,929 3,399,568 Special projects and'activities ••••• 1,627,575 1,845,674 Other budgetary provisions •••••••••• 250,000 445,500 Total (gross) •••• 12,550,00~ 13,566,13~/ Leas: Casual revenue •.•..••..•.•... 680,800 358,000 Total (net) ••• ll,869,200 13,208,130 '!:./ This figure represents the "effective "orking budget" or the amount approved for actual expenditure (see paragraph 52 belm1) • 50. As in the case of FAO, the Advisory Committee during its recent visit to the headquarters of 1ffl0 considered, in consultation >·lith the Director-General of the organization, various administrative and budgetary questions, in addition to the special study of matters relating to the participation of HHO in the Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance. The Committee's report at that time (A/3596), "hile mainly devoted to the technical assistance activities of \·IHO, also covered several points of over-all administrative and budgetary significance. Particular attention may be dra•m to those parts of that report which deal "ith the structure of the organization, the scope and development of \fflO programmes and the integration of these programmes. 51. The Advisory Committee subsequently had an opportunity to discuss the 1958 budget of vli!O "ith representatives of the Director-General. 52. The gross total in the above table for each year represents the "effective "orking budget" of the amount approved for actual expenditure; it is exclusive of an undistributed reserve (1957: $1,040,420; 1958: $1,203,030) comprising the II . • II . 21/ assessments against ina.ct~ve membere-- and China. 21/ There are at present four "inactive" members: Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. I ... A/3767 English Page 26 53. The effective working budget for 1958 represents an increase, by comparison Hith 1957, of $1,016,130, or 8.10 per cent. Some $650,000 of this increase relates to an· expansion of IillO 1 s advisory services; among items covered· by the remainder are statutory increa_ses in staff salaries, expert committees and conferences, 'IillO participation in the comprehensive community development programmes undertaken by the United Nations, and a small expansion of the activities at IillO headquarters. Further, an amount of $100 1 000 is provided tm1ards partial reimbursement of the Harking Capital Fund for certain expenses in 1957 proposed by the Director-General in respect of the housing of the Hestern Pacific Regional Office (Manila), 54, The 1958 session of the Horld Health Assembly is scheduled to be held at Minneapolis in response to an invitation from the Government of the United States of America. It is expected that, in accordance with established_ policy in vmo, the extra costs involved (about $450,000) will be met, almost in their entirety, 22 by the host Government and the community of Minneapolis. / 55. During the Advisory Committee's visit to HHO headquarters at Geneva in ' April 1957, the Director-General expressed some concern at the relatively poor response in the matter of voluntary contributions to the special Malaria Eradication Fund, The Advisory Committee understands that the outlook has subsequently improved 1·7i th a substantial contribution expected from the United States. It is of interest to note in this connexion that UNICEF has in recent years greatly increased its allocations for malaria eradication work and expects to keep these at the same level of $8 million a year for the period 1958-1961. 56. The action taken in lillO in respect of the revised common salary system has been outlined in paragraph 14 (f) above. A recent interesting development in this regard is the unanimous decision of the Directing Council_ of the Pan American 2~/ . Sanitary Organization (PAS0)-2 not to apply minus post adjustments to any duty station in respect of staff paid from PASO funds. This involves a departure. 22/ The normal expenditure for a session of the Assembly at Geneva is of the order of $200 1 000. 23/ PASO serves as the regional organization of WHO for the Americas. I ... I A/3767 ' English Page 27 from the common system, as recommended by the Salary Review Committee and approved by the General Assembly and by the legislative bodies of several of the specialized agencies, including 'flHO 1 'l1hich provides for minus post adjustments where these are warranted in comparison to the base (Geneva as of 1 January 1956). It is understood that the vlHO Executive Board would consider a similar deviation for WHO staff so as to avoid different treatment for staff employed by the two organizations in the Region of the Americas. A/3767 II English Page 28 International Telecommunication Union 1957 1958 Appropriations Appropriations Dollars (us) Dollars (us) Personal services ...... •..... 1,353,948 1,740,921 General services. •-• ....•...... •. 236,764 355,678 Special projects and activities ••••••••••• Other budgetary provisions •••••••••••••••• 14,953 19,942 Total (gross) ... 1,605,665 2,ll6,541 Less: Ca.sua.l revenue . ..•..••.•..••....•.. 246,998 490,233 Total (net) .•••. 1,358,667 1,626,308 57. The Advisory Committee had an opportunity to discuss the 1958 budget of ITU with the Secretary-General of the Union. 58. The above appropriations cover the "ordinary" expenses of ITU and the "extracrdir..ary" expenditures 1ihich relate to meeting:; of various bcdies of t!.e Unicn. In ad:iition to these appropriations, ITU has a supplementary putlications budget which for 1958 has been approved at acme $356,coo (1957: $379,000). 59· The amounts approved for the "o::-dinary", "extraordinary" and pub1:!-cations budgets in respect of 1957 and 1958 are as follows: 1957 1958 T T Ordinary budget .•.••.•.•...•...... •..••••.•••. ~ ••. 1,510,456 1,753,691 Extraordinary budget ...... •..•...... ••...... 95,210 362,850 Supplementary publications budget ••.•••••••••••••••••••••••••• 379,194 356,075 60. The increase in the ordinary budget for 1958 is mainly due to the proposed introduction, effective 1 January 1958, of revised salary scales in respect of ITU 24/ . staff (see para.14(g) above).- The more significant increase occurs, however, in 24/ As explained in paragraph 14(g) above, these scales are not the same as those applied in the United Nations and most of the specialized agencies. I ... A/3767 English Page 29 the extraordinary budget and is attributable to a particularly heavy programme of n:eetings scheduled for 1958. The Advisory Committee understands that the meetings programme w±ll be even heavier in 1959, with three major international conferences lasting a total of six months. It may be noted here that this heavy conference schedule follows nearly ten years of relatively few major meetings (other than the Plenipotentiary Conferences). For reasons of economy and in order to assure the ,maximum usefulness in terms of preparatory work and practical conditions of exploitation of telecommunications, ITU has been postponing some of the major conferences which would normally have met earlier. 61. Although the ceiling on ordinary expenses stipulated in the Buenos Aires Protocol of 1952?:2./applies only to the period ending with 1958, the Secretary General of ITU proposes to prepare the 1959 budget estimates so as not to increase the contributions of members. The Secretary-General will also present to the Administrative Council and the Plenipotentiary Conference to beheld in 1959 a report on the possibilities of presenting the ITU budget in a consolidated form. World Meteorological Organization 1957 1958 Appropriations Estimates Dollars (us) Dollars (us) Personal services ...... •..•... , .. .- .• , , ..•. , 281,820 303,925 1 General services ...... , •• , • , , ••••••••••••• , •• , 130,853 145,835 Special projects and activities •••••••••••••••• 9,030' 2,753 Other budgetary provisions •••.•.•.•.••••••••.•• 3,310 3,310 Total (gross) •••••••• 425,013 455,823 Less: Casual revenue . ...••...... • 13,500 13,500 Total (net) .••••••••• 411,513 442,323 ?:2./ This ceiling is in the wnour.t (dollar equivalent) of $1,421, 729. For 1958, additional credits have been authorized in accordance with relevant provisions of the Protocol. ; ... A/3767 English Page 30 62. The Advisory Committee's special study of WMO (A/3597), while mainly devoted to that organization's technical assistance programme, covered also various points of general administrative interest. The special study has also provided useful background information for the Committee's review of.the 1958 budget of the organization. 63. The 1958 estimates of WMO show, by compariso~ with 1957, an increase of $30,810, or 7.25 per cent. The major part of this increase is due to the proposed application, with retroactive effect from 1 January 1957, of the revised common system of salaries. 64. The total of 1956 expenses, 1957 appropriations and 19$8 estimates amounts to some $1,257,000, leaving a balance of about $443,000 in the approved ceiling for the four-year period 1956-1959 of $1,700,000. While in 1955, following the Second WMO Congress, it was envisaged that the 1959 budget would be of the order of $440,000, the recent increases in salaries and allowances., which were not foreseen at that time, have given rise to additional e:Kpendi tures. After a thorough review of the total needs of WMO for the remainder of the four-year period 1956-1959, the Executive Committee decided that the approval of the members of the organization should be sought by correspondence to an increase of $70,0o8 (i.e. 4 per cent) in the total authorized maximum expenditure for the period. The decision of the ' members 1dll not be known until February 1958. If the proposal is approved, the additional funds will be divided between 1958 and 1959 in the amounts of $19,336 and $50,672 respectively. ; ... A/3767 English Annex Page 1 ANNEX SCALES OF ASSESSMENTS: UNITED NATIONS AND LARGER SPECIALIZED AGENCIES - 1958 United Members Nations ILO FAO UNESCO ICAO HHO Per cent Per cent Per cent Per cent units units Afghanistan 0.06 0.12 0.08 0.06 2 7 Albania 0.04 0.12 -'!:! £/ Argentina 1.14 1.58 1.54 1.10 21 160 Australia. 1.61 1.90 2.17 1.55 36 206 • Austria. 0.35 0.35 0.47 0.34 4 37 Belgium 1.24 1.41 1.67 1.19 23 153 Bolivia 0.05 0.12 0.07 0.05 2 6 Brazil 1.06 1.57 1.43 1.02 29 154 Bulgaria 0.14 0.20 0.13 17 Burma 0.10 0.16 0.14 0.09 2 11 Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic 0.47 0.45 0.45 50 Cambodia 0.04 0.04 0.04 2 £/ Canada. 3.09 3.56 4.17 2.93 63 383 Ceylon 0.11 0.13 0.15 0.10 2 11 Chile 0.29 0.36 0.39 0.28 6 40 China 5.01 2.04 4.83 10 639 Colombia 0.36 0.41 0.49 0.35 13 Costa Rica 0.04 0.12 o.o4 0.04 £/ Cuba 0.26 0.32 0.35 0.25 6 32 Czechoslovakia · 0.82 0.94 0.79 13 102 Denmark 0.64 0.79 0.86 0.62 14 82 Dominican Republic 0.05 0.12 0.07 0.05 2 £/ Ecuador 0.05 0.12 0.07 0.05 2 £/ Egypt 0.35 0.48 0.47 0.34 6 56 El Salvader 0.06 0.12 0.08 0.06 2 7 ; ... A/3767 English Annex Page 2 United Members Nations ILO FAO UNESCO ICAO WHO Per cent Perc;"ent Per cent Per cent unrtS units Ethiopia 0.11. 0.12 0.15 0.10 2 13 Federation of Nigeria 3 Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasala.nd - 3 Finland, 0.36 0.30 0.49 0.35 7 38 France 5.56 6.14 7.51 5.35 lll 685 Germany, Federal Republic of 4.35 5.60 3;94 68 471. Ghana 0.07 0.12 0.09 El Greece 0.19 0.21 0.26 0.19 4 23 Guatemala 0.07 0.12 0.09 0.07 2 8 Haiti 0.04 0.12 o.o4 0.04 2 El Hondure.s 0.04 0.12 0.04 o.o4 2 El Hungary 0.39 0.50 0.43 47 Iceland 0.04 0.12 0.04 2 El India 2.90 3.35 3.91 2.79 43 363 Indonesia 0.50 0.43 0.67 0.48 11. 56 Iran 0.26 0.31 0.35 0.25 3 36 Ira Japan 1.92 2.00 2.59 1.84 35 228 Jordan 0.04 0.12 0.04 0.04 2 I El Korea, Republic of 0.18 0.12 2 El Laos 0.04 o.o4 0.04 2 El Lebanon 0.05 0.12 0.07 0.05 2 El ; ... A/3767 English Annex Page 3 United Members Nations ILO FAO UNESCO ICAO WHO Per cent Percent Per cent Per cent units units Liberia o.o4 0.12 0.04 0.04 2 E./ Libya 0.04 0.12 0.04 0.04 2 E./ Luxembourg 0.06 0.12 0.08 o.o6 2 7 Malaya, Federation of 0.22 0.30 Mexico 0.68 0.78 0.92 0.66 23 82 Monaco o.o4 E./ Morocco 0.12 0.14 0.16 0.11 2 16 Nepal 0.04 0.04 o.o4 E./ Netherlands 1.12 1.23 1.51 1.08 40 144 New Zealand 0.42 0.50 0.57 o.4o 7 53 Nicaragua 0.04 0.12 0.04 0.04 2 E./ Norway 0.48 0.53 0.65 0.46 ll 58 Pakistan 0.54 0.72 0.73 0.52 9 70 Panama 0.05 0.12 0.07 0.05 E./ Paraguay 0.04 0.12 0.04 0.04 2 E./ Peru 0.15 0.21 0.20 0.14 2 19 Philippine!'! 0.40 0.37 0.54 0.38 8 46 Poland 1.52 1.24 2.05 1.46 25 168 Portugal 0.24 0.32 0.32 4 34 Romania 0.49 0.50 0.47 56 Saudi Arabia 0.07 0.09 0.07 8 Sierra Leone 3 Spain 1.11 1.14 1.50 1.07 20 135 Sudan O.ll ' 0.12 0.15 0.10 2 13 S1Yeden 1.43 1.75 1.93 1.37 25 191 I ... A/3767 English Annex Page 4 United Members Nations ILO FAO UNESCO ICAO WHO Per cent Percent Per cent Per cent units units Switzerland 1.47 1.32 0.95 20 124 Syria 0.08 0.12' 0.11 0.07 2 10 Thailand 0.16 0.21 0.22 0.15 3 22 Tunisia. 0.05 0.12 0.07 0,05 E) Turkey 0.61 0.78 0.82 0.59 9 82 Ukrainian Soviet Bocia.list Republic 1.80 1.00 1.74 190 Union o:f' South A:f'rica. 0.67 0.93 0.90 12 96 Union o:f' Soviet Socialist Republics 1.3.62 10.00 13.11 1,436 United Kingdom o:f' Great Brita.in and Northern Ireland 7.62 10.24 10.29 7.33 145 1,045 United States o:f' America. 32.51 25.00 32.51 31.30 500 =I Uruguay 0.16 0.19 0.22 0.15 3 19 Venezuela. 0.42 0.57 0.40 11 47 Viet-Nam 0.21 0.22 0.14 2 19 Yemen 0.04 0.04 E) Yugoslavia 0.35 0.43 0.47 0.34 ~ 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 1,504 fFootnotes to table on next page.? I ... A/3767 English A=ex Page 5 Footnotes to table on preceding page. a/ A dash (-) against a State indicates that it is not a member of the -, organization concerned. 'E./ Minimum assessment of o.o4 per cent. The as~essment for Ghana is tentative, pending a decision by the Eleventh World Health Assembly in the light of the decision of the United Nations General Assembly at its twelfth session and any other information made available by the Director-General of WHO. ~ Special assessment on largest contributor in accordance with paragraph 3 of resolution WHA 8.5, reading as follows: "3. Decides that, in the application of the principle that the maximum assessment of any one member shall not exceed 33-l/3 per cent, such maximum assessment shall be calculated as a percentage of the total assessments of the members actively participating in the work of the Organization, and that this principle shall be progressively implemented in relation to the WHO' 1955 scale in four annual stages, as follows: 11 (l) For 1956, one-fourth of the adjustment shall be applied; J 11 ( 2) For 1957, one-half of the adjustment shall be applied; "(3) For 1958, three-fourths of the adjustment shall be applied; and ''(4) For 1959 and future years, the full adjustment shall be applied, "provided that, in the,event of the return to active participation of some or all of the non-participating members, the provisions of this paragraph shall be reconsidered by the Health Assembly with a view to accelerating the date by which the maximum assessment would be 33-l/3 per cent. 11 -·----