You open it, these muscles contract.

Here's a book completely wide open.

If we could unroll it, get out all the folds and so on, it would have 400 sq. meters of surface.

Hands out in front of you. Palms up, together.

There has, however, been relatively little direct cost sharing through UNDP.

Reaffirms that UNDP must ensure full recovery, at an aggregate level, of all actual costs for implementing activities financed from UNDP third party cost sharing, trust fund contribution and programme country cost sharing

It is important that a discussion on the divide between assessed contributions to peace operations and voluntary contributions be initiated.

I will spread the cards and you'll say stop, when I point to them, right. Point, say stop.

15. Decides that under the mixed assessment option of one time and multi year assessment, all assessments will be based on the regular budget scale of assessments applicable for 2007 See resolution 61 237.

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A. Staffing requirements currently funded under assessed contributions (regular budget and tribunals), by duty station

Assessed contributions

Assessed contributions amounting to US 4,284,502 and or representing 25 per cent of the total contributions receivable in the biennium were outstanding.

The results would be allocated to development assistance through a solidarity fund which could be coordinated with contributions from other countries.

At that time, any adjustments in contributions by the participants sharing the costs will be determined accordingly.

(b) Assessment of the amount in paragraph (a) above at a monthly rate of 2,814,508.

(h) Assessed contributions.

Nonetheless, on 30 April 2005, 18 Member States had paid all their due and payable assessments for the regular budget, the tribunals and peacekeeping operations in full, not counting the assessments issued on 27 April, that were still within the 30 day due period.

It should be noted that the costs are estimated on the basis of past experience and anticipated workload.

At that time, any adjustments in contributions by the participants sharing the costs will be made accordingly.

27. Decides to apportion the amount of 87,344,825 dollars, being half of the total assessment for 2004, among Member States in accordance with the rates of assessment applicable to peacekeeping operations for 2004

Approves the programme budget for the biennium 2006 2007, amounting to USD 53,501,583 (EUR 40,286,693) for the purposes specified in table 1 below

The financing options considered in the report include a one time assessment and a multi year assessment.

7. Decides that the financing for the unassessed expenditures incurred in 2001, in the amount of 413,600 United States dollars, shall be drawn from the unencumbered balance available in the Special Account for the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

22. Decides also, as an ad hoc arrangement, to assess the share of the Republic of Korea, which currently belongs to Group C, in the costs of peacekeeping operations in the following manner 36 per cent of the regular budget assessment beginning on 1 July 2001, 52 per cent in 2002, 68 per cent in 2003, 84 per cent in 2004 and 100 per cent in 2005.

With regard to the financial arrangements, it will be recalled that in accordance with the practice followed on the occasion of previous multilateral disarmament conferences, and as reflected in the Rules of Procedure, the costs of such conferences, including those pertaining to preparatory meetings, would be shared among the States Parties participating in the conferences, based upon the United Nations scale of assessment pro rated to take into account the number of

Takes note of the status of contributions to the Force as at 30 April 2006, including the contributions outstanding in the amount of 71 million United States dollars, representing some 2 per cent of the total assessed contributions, notes with concern that only thirty Member States have paid their assessed contributions in full, and urges all other Member States, in particular those in arrears, to ensure payment of their outstanding assessed contributions

He noted that UNIDO was successfully implementing its activities within the amount of the approved 2004 2005 assessed contributions, namely 142 million euros.

31. Decides to apportion the amount of 61,089,600 dollars, being half of the total assessment for 2004, among Member States in accordance with the rates of assessment applicable to peacekeeping operations for 2004

It should be emphasized that irrespective of whether a particular Member State's assessments were utilized for set aside purposes, all assessments received by the bond trustee would be fully credited to assessed contributions.

Accordingly payments and credits for each account have been applied to contributions due in the order in which they were assessed, regardless of whether they were received before or after the respective dates of succession.

Assessment of new Member States

Assessed contributions of 1,324,078 were received in advance from Member States in 2004 to be applied against the 2005 assessment.

2. Takes note of the status of contributions to the Force as at 31 October 2006, including the contributions outstanding in the amount of 67.9 million United States dollars, representing some 2 per cent of the total assessed contributions, notes with concern that only thirty eight Member States have paid their assessed contributions in full, and urges all other Member States, in particular those in arrears, to ensure payment of their outstanding assessed contributions

Takes note of the status of contributions to the United Nations Mission in Liberia as at 30 April 2006, including the contributions outstanding in the amount of 212.9 million United States dollars, representing some 8.9 per cent of the total assessed contributions, notes with concern that only six Member States have paid their assessed contributions in full, and urges all other Member States, in particular those in arrears, to ensure payment of their outstanding assessed contributions

Takes note of the status of contributions to the United Nations Operation in Burundi as at 15 April 2005, including the contributions outstanding in the amount of 88.7 million United States dollars, representing some 25 per cent of the total assessed contributions, notes with concern that only forty three Member States have paid their assessed contributions in full, and urges all other Member States, in particular those in arrears, to ensure payment of their outstanding assessed contributions

Takes note of the status of contributions to the United Nations Mission in Liberia as at 15 April 2005, including the contributions outstanding in the amount of 96.0 million United States dollars, representing some 7 per cent of the total assessed contributions, notes with concern that only sixty three Member States have paid their assessed contributions in full, and urges all other Member States, in particular those in arrears, to ensure payment of their outstanding assessed contributions

Unlike assessments for the regular budget and the tribunals, assessments for peacekeeping are issued throughout the year as relevant decisions are taken by the General Assembly and the Security Council.

Collectively, the countries of the European Union paid 37 per cent of total assessed contributions, and therefore attached considerable importance to the methodology for determining future scales of assessments.

29. Notes that the establishment of the letter of credit could incur a fee of between 0.05 and 0.5 per cent of the value of the credit facility at the start of each year, and agrees that Member States will be assessed their share of the fees at the beginning of each calendar year on the basis of the regular budget scale of assessments for 2007

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20. Further decides to apportion, on the same day of the first working week of January for the period from 2007 to 2011, the amounts applicable, based on each Member State's assessment option of either a one time payment, based on its share of 1,716.7 million dollars, or equal multi year payments over five years, in accordance with the regular budget rates of assessment applicable for 2007 for all assessments for the capital master plan, using the scale of assessments for the period 2007 2009

Reiterates that UNDP must ensure that each source of funding covers its proportional share of management and programme support

Despite lower arrears in contributions to the regular budget and the international tribunals in 2004, a substantial amount of assessed contributions, a legal obligation of Member States, remained unpaid.

4. Decides that Tuvalu should be credited with a corresponding proportion of its non member State assessment for the year 2000