(Millions of United States dollars)

The Protection Information Section had a significant backlog.

The burden of servicing debt and the payment of arrears have a suffocating effect on the economies of developing countries.

Overtime is constantly being required to deal with a backlog of cases.

With regard to the payment of arrears, he drew attention to the technical suggestions contained in paragraphs 68 and 69, which would facilitate both the payment of arrears and the work of the Secretariat and the Committee on Contributions.

Total amount of arrears at time of signing the plan, in addition to current year's assessments.

In addition, a number of payments were received and credits applied.

The discussion concerning measures to encourage the payment of arrears also gave rise to grave concern.

Regarding interest on or indexation of arrears, should the General Assembly decide to introduce interest charges on arrears, the rate should be fixed at a low level and should not have retroactive effect, and the annual rate should not exceed 1 per cent.

Acknowledging the importance of facilitating the timely publication of the Yearbook of the International Law Commission and eliminating the backlog,

Local governments have also accumulated massive amounts of non explicit debt through arrears, credits, and guarantees.

(d) Requested the Director General to pursue his efforts and contacts with Member States to effect the collection of arrears.

In the meantime, the Secretariat was requested to meet with representatives of the five successor States to determine the exact amount of the arrears.

13. Endorses the efforts of the Secretary General to eliminate the backlog in the publication of the Repertoire of the Practice of the Security Council

(d) Requests the Director General to pursue his efforts and contacts with Member States to effect the collection of arrears.

In that context, it encouraged the Comoros to consider the possibility of submitting a multi year payment plan.

Endorses the efforts of the Secretary General to eliminate the backlog in the publication of the Repertoire of the Practice of the Security Council

In clearing its arrears, the Transitional Government becomes eligible for new modes of financial support provided by the Bank.

(c) Urges those Member States and former Member States that have not yet paid their assessed contributions, including advances to the Working Capital Fund and prior years' arrears, as well as towards the security enhancements, to do so without delay

8. Endorses the efforts of the Secretary General to eliminate the backlog in the publication of the Repertoire of the Practice of the Security Council

Moreover, by the end of March 2005, Côte d'Ivoire had accumulated some 135 million in arrears to the World Bank.

Guinea Bissau was committed to paying its contributions to the United Nations and would keep the issue of multi year payment plans under continuous consideration.

No other Member States have so far submitted payment plans or schedules for the elimination of their arrears.

Measures to facilitate the payment of arrears should also take account of the special circumstances of developing countries.

But the United States is impeding this process by falling far behind in its obligatory payments to the UN peacekeeping budget, with total US arrears estimated at more than 500 million and possibly exceeding 1 billion by the end of 2007.

Contributions of the European Commission and France for debt relief to Burundi have made it possible to finalize the payment of these arrears.

I appeal to all Member States to pay their assessments promptly and in full, and to clear all remaining arrears.

The General Assembly had been struggling for some years to develop measures to encourage the payment of arrears and the timely payment of assessed contributions.

The risk stemming from local government debt is exacerbated further by massive amounts of non explicit debt acquired through arrears, credits, and guarantees.

The table contained in annex VIII shows the breakdown between pre dissolution arrears and post dissolution arrears.

In that respect, the great volume of arrears and outstanding debts of former Member States was unacceptable.

It supported the establishment of the Trust Fund for the elimination of the backlog on the Repertory and encouraged cooperation with universities.

(a) The plans should provide for payment each year of the Member State's current year assessments and a part of its arrears

Although the Transition Government has pursued sound macroeconomic and public finance management, accumulation of arrears may resume, depending on the political situation.

Mr. Al Battawi (Iraq) said that multi year payment plans were a good method of paying off arrears and securing fulfilment of Member States' obligations to the Organization.

In view of its problems, Tajikistan requested that consideration be given to writing off its arrears to peacekeeping accounts that accrued before 2000.

Lastly, he commended the Secretariat for its efforts to eliminate the backlog in the publication of the Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs and the Repertoire of the Practice of the Security Council.

Furthermore, when grants and concessional bilateral flows are used to clear arrears with multilateral institutions, this further reduces the resources available for development.

Haiti's external debt represents more than 1 billion with an accumulation of arrears towards multilateral (US 1,091.30 million) and bilateral (US 209.10 million) creditors (see table below).

His delegation also had reservations about the Committee's discussion of the topic of interest on arrears (paras. 30 and 31), which also fell outside the scope of its mandate.

Thus, payments of first and second instalments of 18,693 and 18,691 each have been received, thereby reducing the arrears to the current status of 53,941. The agreement is in accordance with the

Being committed to the objectives of the UNIDO activities and wishing to continue fruitful co operation, the government has made substantial efforts to reduce the arrears under a payment plan.

Since existing measures to encourage the payment of arrears had proved useful, it was not necessary for the Committee on Contributions to pursue its consideration of that issue.

Iraq had had recourse to such a plan in view of its severe economic difficulties and it urged other countries with big arrears to do likewise.

The sum represents money owed to the Member States that contribute the troops who make up the Force. I appeal to all Member States to pay their assessments promptly and in full and to clear all remaining arrears.