133. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Burundi

By its resolution 1545 (2004) of 21 May 2004, the Security Council authorized, for an initial period of six months as from 1 June 2004, with the intention to renew it for further periods, the deployment of a peacekeeping operation in Burundi entitled the United Nations Operation in Burundi (ONUB). In its most recent resolution, 1692 (2006) of 30 June 2006, the Council extended the mandate of the Operation until 31 December 2006.

At its resumed sixty-second session, in June 2008, the General Assembly decided that Member States that had fulfilled their financial obligations to the Operation should be credited with their respective share of the unencumbered balance and other income in the amount of $30,729,800 in respect of the financial period ended 30 June 2007; also decided that, for Member States that had not fulfilled their financial obligations to the Operation, their share of the unencumbered balance and other income in the amount of $30,729,800 in respect of the financial period ended 30 June 2007 should be set off against their outstanding obligations; and further decided that the decrease of $378,700 in the estimated staff assessment income in respect of the financial period ended 30 June 2007 should be set off against the credits from the amount of $30,729,800 (resolution 62/253).