Sierra Leone Amount due was 17,587.

That would reduce the amount outstanding at the end of 2005 compared with the end of 2004.

Of the 73 million outstanding as at 7 October, the United States and Japan both owed about 28 million, Argentina owed over 3 million, and Brazil accounted for over 2.6 million.

The total amount of spending defined as such is KM 2,198 per capita annually.

For overseas branches, the net amount due to the local parent companies is taken as an approximation of the magnitude of direct investment.

One can carry out an orderly rescheduling of the PIIGS public debts without actually reducing the principal amount owed.

Of the approved total cost of 921,100, the amount of 875,200, or 95 per cent has been committed.

Of the total approved programme of 2,565,900, funds in the amount of 1,801,900, or 70 per cent of the approved programme, have been utilized.

Of the total amount due for distribution of 3,624,342 as at 31 December 2004, an amount of 536,534 was applied against the 2005 assessments.

There was no room for complacency, however, as the level of debt owed to Member States as at 31 December 2004 had been estimated at 605 million. The situation could become worse if the Organization had to resort to cross borrowing from the peacekeeping budgets to fund regular expenditure.

Bangladesh was concerned that the amount owed to it  46 million remained the highest, although it had declined in comparison with 2003, when it had been about 69 million.

Predatory lenders went further, offering negative amortization loans, so the amount owed went up year after year.

Of the total amount outstanding of 739 million, 606 million is accounted for by the United States of America, 64 million by Brazil and 22 million by Argentina.

(b) Existing receivable means a receivable that arises upon or before conclusion of the contract of assignment and future receivable means a receivable that arises after conclusion of the contract of assignment

Interest income in excess of the budgetary estimate ( 660,500) for the year 2004 is 57,870 actual amount, if any, due for distribution to eligible Member States will be determined at the end of the biennium.

Noting that claim number 4002126 has received 55 million and has been in a holding pattern as regards the balance owing since the last payment was made in April 2003,

Of the total programme of 998,100 for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the amount of 255,500, or 26 per cent, has been utilized. The installation of blast proof film has been completed at ECLAC headquarters and its Mexico City and Bogotá offices, and is under implementation at other local ECLAC offices.

The total amount due as at 31 December 2004 amounts to 1,000,000 ( 737,000 at the United Nations operational rate of exchange as at 31 December 2004).

(c) If a nominated beneficiary does not survive, or if a designation of beneficiary has not been made or has been revoked, the amount standing to the credit of a staff member will, upon the staff member's death, be paid to his or her estate.

The minimum payments necessary to reduce the amounts owed by those Member States on their contributions so that they remain below the gross amount assessed for the preceding two full years (2003 and 2004) are as follows

widowed or divorced staff member 3 246

Total net Total net remuneration is the sum of the non pensionable component and the net pensionable salary.

Total net Total net remuneration is the sum of the non pensionable component and the net pensionable salary.

Salary scale for staff in the Trades and Crafts category at Headquarters

The minimum payments necessary to reduce the amounts owed by those Member States on their contributions so that they remain below the gross amount assessed for the preceding two full years (2003 2004) are as follows

I will transfer the money.

2 Proposal for consideration by COP 7.

(amounts in thousands)

Decision 2 COP.1.

The total amount budgeted for Major Programme I has been increased by approximately 7 per cent, as a result of a substantial increase in UNIDO's contribution to the Security and Safety Services managed by UNOV.

Total Progress

Grand total 452 21 473

Although the total amount outstanding is more than 400 million lower than at the end of 2004, it still stands at over 2.1 billion, and as noted above, further assessments can be expected during 2005.

At 31 December 2004, Japan and the United States of America together accounted for almost 1.5 billion, 57 per cent of the total, with Ukraine, France, China and Germany also owing in excess of 100 million each.

By 30 April 2005, payments of 1.466 billion had been received for peacekeeping operations. The amount outstanding, due and payable had fallen to 1.207 billion, and only the United States and Ukraine still owed over 100 million.

(a) The assignor has the right to assign the receivable

I will transfer the money.

The revised amount requested represented a 35.7 per cent increase over the sum already appropriated.

Despite being a developing country with a relatively low capacity to pay, China was keenly aware of its responsibility as a major power and had paid on time its full assessed contribution to the regular budget ( 29,989,755) for 2004 and its assessments of 6,034,627 and 70 million, respectively, for the two Tribunals and the 15 peacekeeping missions.

Macroeconomics and institutions

These disclaimers related to projects implemented by two international NGOs for 17 per cent and 14 per cent, respectively, of the total 2003 amount paid to them by UNHCR ( 1,900,098).

(q) Assignor means the person that makes an assignment of a receivable.

The Advisory Committee was informed that troop cost reimbursement from inception to June 2004 totalled 216.3 million, while the estimated amount owed for the period from July 2004 to January 2005 was 84.6 million.

These disclaimers related to projects implemented by two international NGOs for 17 per cent and 14 per cent, respectively, of the total 2003 amount paid to them by UNHCR ( 1,900,098).

But the debate about austerity and the cost of high public debt levels misses a key point Public debt owed to foreigners is different from debt owed to residents.