The United Nations budget for 2023 will be more than 3,100 million euros

MADRID, 31 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The General Assembly of the United Nations has adopted this Friday a budget for 2023 of 3,400 million dollars (3,169 million euros), which represents an increase of 280 million with respect to the budget of the organization, which was 3,120 million euros. (2,789 million euros).

Specifically, the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly - the one in charge of the administrative and budgetary part - has concluded the main part of its seventy-seventh session by sending the General Assembly a budget for 2023 of almost 3.2 billion euros, as detailed by the organization in a statement.

This figure is 200 million more than the budget figure presented by the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, in mid-October 2022.

"I thank all the members of the Fifth Committee, the chair and members of the bureau, and the secretariat for ensuring that our organization is adequately funded to respond to the many intertwined crises facing the world," the president said. of the 77th General Assembly of the United Nations, Csaba Korosi.

"I thank you for preventing the imminent prospect of a possible closure of the United Nations. Our 8 billion stakeholders expect solutions from us," he added during his speech at the General Assembly.

The approval of the UN resources for 2023 has been marked by the discussion among the delegates of the commission for the decision to allocate more money to the items destined to support the mandates of the Human Rights Council.

The representative of the Czech Republic, on behalf of the European Union, has called for additional resources, drawing criticism from China.

The latter's representative argued that the amendment would impose "a financial burden on Member States" and would undermine the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Affairs (ACABQ).

However, by sending another budget resolution to the Assembly, on the review of budget cycle changes, the committee has confirmed the definitive change initiated in a three-year trial in 2020, switching to an annual budget model instead of a biannual one. .

Guterres has repeatedly argued that moving to an annual exercise improves the accuracy of resource estimates and allows the organization to adapt "more quickly to changes in mandate."

In addition, according to the UN Secretary General, it also gives member states "the opportunity to provide more frequent instructions on the allocation of resources and align decisions with recent or sudden events, such as the global pandemic."