Administrative and Budgetary Committee (Fifth Committee)
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79th session
The main part of the seventy-ninth session of the Fifth Committee began on 7 October 2024.
- Programme of work
- Status of Preparedness of Documentation (informal document - 2024_11_12)
- Proposed programme plan and budget for 2025
- Report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination (64th session) A/79/16
- Appointments and elections
About the Fifth Committee
- Main part of the General Assembly session: October to December.
- First part of the resumed session: March (5 weeks pursuant to resolution 77/267, by which the General Assembly decided to extend the length of the first resumed session to five weeks, starting from its seventy-eighth session)
- Second part of the resumed session to consider administrative and budgetary aspects of UN Peacekeeping and possibly other questions or items that the Committee may need to consider: May pursuant to resolution 49/233 A, by which the Assembly approved the present peacekeeping budget cycle)
- Article 17 of the United Nations Charter
- Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly
- General Assembly decisions on questions relating to the programme budget
- Regulations and Rules Governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation (ST/SGB/2018/3).
- Financial Rules & Regulations of the United Nations (ST/SGB/2013/4) and (ST/SGB/2013/4/Amend.1)
- Historical and analytical note on main committees (A/58/CRP.5)
A conference room paper produced for the 58th Session of the General Assembly providing an overview of the working methods and functions of the main Committees. - The process of informals at the Fifth Committee
An article from the UN Chronicle written in March 2002 by Vikram Sura, shedding some light on the processes that lead to consensus in the Fifth Committee.
The Fifth Committee is the Committee of the General Assembly with responsibilities for administrative and budgetary matters. Based on the reports of the Fifth Committee, the General Assembly considers and approves the budget of the Organization in accordance with Chapter IV, Article 17 of the Charter of the United Nations. This function was reaffirmed by the General Assembly in its resolution 45/248 B, Sect. VI .
The Assembly also considers and approves financial and budgetary arrangements with specialized agencies and makes recommendations to the agencies concerned.
The Committee meets during the:
The Fifth Committee may also consider urgent matters relating to the financing of a peacekeeping mission authorized by the Security Council at any of its sessions.
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