The main principle of the relevant methodology must be Member States' capacity to pay.

Mr. Neil (Jamaica) said that the principle of capacity to pay was applicable to all States.

The Committee's deliberations on the matter should be guided by the principle of capacity to pay.

It was based on the principle of capacity to pay and carefully weighed all the factors involved.

However, although GNI was the best approximation of capacity to pay, it was not the only one.

In accordance with the principle of capacity to pay, those countries that were able to pay their contributions as assessed must do so in full, on time and without conditions.

It was regrettable that the Committee on Conferences seemed to give greater weight to technical considerations than to capacity to pay.

Mr. Tal (Jordan) said that capacity to pay must be the guiding principle in calculating the scale of assessments.

3. Also reaffirms the fundamental principle that the expenses of the Organization shall be apportioned broadly according to capacity to pay

When providing assistance to affected countries, the international community should also pay attention to their capacity for dealing with natural disasters.

His delegation therefore supported measures to encourage Member States to pay their contributions on time, in full and without conditions, based on the principle that expenses should be apportioned on the basis of capacity to pay.

The principle of capacity to pay must be taken fully into account in the review of the scale methodology in 2006.

Reaffirming also the fundamental principle that the expenses of the Organization shall be apportioned among Member States broadly according to capacity to pay,

The apportionment of the Organization's expenses among Member States must be fair and equitable, with capacity to pay being the paramount consideration.

72. Requests the Secretary General to pay full attention to the parity of the six official languages in expanding the international radio broadcasting capacity

57. Requests the Secretary General to pay full attention to the parity of the six official languages in expanding the international radio broadcasting capacity

However, the principal element of the methodology should continue to be capacity to pay, the most accurate reflection of which was gross national income (GNI).

In this connection, donor countries should pay particular attention to the need for a 10 year plan for capacity building with the African Union.

Donors should therefore pay special attention to the urgent need for capacity building within the Transitional Government, as a prerequisite for effective development cooperation.

It was also important to take account of exceptional circumstances, such as the recent severe weather in the Caribbean, which affected countries' real capacity to pay.

5. Emphasizes the need for future scales of assessments to reflect the principle that the expenses of the Organization shall be apportioned broadly according to capacity to pay

Mr. Elji (Syrian Arab Republic) said that any future changes in the scale methodology must be based on the principle of real capacity to pay and the Committee on Contributions should concentrate on finding the best way to determine that capacity.

The ensuing massive bank bailout, plus continued budget deficits and declining nominal GNP, means that Ireland s debt is ballooning, while its capacity to pay has collapsed.

Although that rapid increase might affect Member States' capacity to pay their assessments on time, the fact remained that the deficit of 2.5 billion was difficult to explain.

Capacity building has several components, of which three are critical training, funding of civil service modernization and adequate pay for public servants.

The debt burden adjustment should be retained as an element of the scale methodology because external debt had a substantial impact on Member States' capacity to pay.

Accordingly, in considering the methodology for calculating future scales of assessments, the Fifth Committee must focus on determining the best way to reflect Member States' true capacity to pay.

Assessment rates should be fixed according to Member States' capacity to pay, which should be determined on the basis of economic data that best reflected the performance of national economies.

However, in countries where additional loans are necessary there is a need to promote responsible lending and borrowing and to link the grant element of such loans to the capacity to pay.

Clearly, capacity to pay could not be measured through statistics alone, and stubborn adherence to the criterion of per capita GNI was erroneous and misleading, and did not correspond to economic realities.

Mr. Tal (Jordan) endorsed the comments made by the representative of Qatar regarding capacity to pay, which, if used as the main criterion for calculating the scale of assessments, would greatly facilitate the ability of developing countries to pay their assessed contributions on time, in full and without conditions.

The Committee on Contributions should base its recommendations on the scale for 2007 2009 on accurate statistics and should keep in mind that capacity to pay was the paramount principle.

It was clear from the current discussion that the methodology unfairly burdened some States while failing to reflect other States' true capacity to pay or the special responsibilities borne by some of them.

The representative of the European Union had stated that the most accurate reflection of capacity to pay was gross national income (GNI) and that there could be no basis for exceptions to that principle.

He refused to pay.

The debt burden adjustment was an integral part of the scale methodology, for external debt not only affected a country's capacity to pay but also placed a significant burden on its economy.

There are no places where a shortage of qualified labor or of available capacity is sufficiently great to induce managers to pay more than they have been used to paying for good hands or useful machines.

Turning to the report of the Committee on Contributions, he recalled that capacity to pay was the fundamental principle used to determine the scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations.

Borrow a lot of money, pay it off, pay it off, pay it off, get down to near zero, and bang! World War I.

The employer is obliged to pay workers the same pay for work of equal value.

2. Decides also to continue consideration of the proposal for the re establishment of the Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Working Group on the Implementation of the Principle of Capacity to Pay during its resumed fifty fifth session.

How to Pay a Banker

We rise to an astronomical level, around 118 percent of GDP, But we pay it off, pay it off, pay it off, and then, what's this?

Among the reasons the President cited were continuing tensions between the organs of State sovereignty which, according to him, hampered the smooth functioning of State institutions and weakened the Government's capacity to pay salaries or to survive in parliament.

The Committee on Contributions must revise the scale methodology as a matter of priority to better reflect better States' true capacity to pay and to prevent sharp increases that were out of all proportion to the growth of national economies.