General Assembly Adopts 2012/13 Peacekeeping Budget of Just over $7 Billion
for 14 Operations, Acting on Recommendations of Fifth Committee
The General Assembly today, acting on the recommendations of its Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary), adopted a peacekeeping budget of just more than $7 billion for the period 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2013.
The funding approved today — for 14 peacekeeping missions, the Logistics Base in Brindisi and the peacekeeping support account — is broken down as follows:
| Mission |
Total Appropriation |
| MINURSO ( Mission for Referendum in Western Sahara) |
$60.79 million |
| MINUSTAH (Stabilization Mission in Haiti) |
$676.70 million |
| MONUSCO (Organization Stabilization Mission in Democratic Republic of the Congo) |
$1.40 billion |
| UNAMID (Hybrid Operation in Darfur) |
$1.51 billion |
| UNDOF (Disengagement Observer Force) |
$47.99 million |
| UNFICYP (Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus) |
$56.97 million |
| UNIFIL (Interim Force in Lebanon) |
$546.90 million |
| UNISFA (United Nations Interim Security Force in Abyei) |
$269.19 million |
| UNMIK ( Mission in Kosovo) |
$49.02 million |
| UNMIL ( Mission in Liberia) |
$518.09 million |
| UNMISS (United Nations Mission in South Sudan) |
$876.16 million |
| UNMIT (United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste) |
$162.21 million |
| UNOCI (United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire) |
$600.15 million |
| UNSOA (United Nations Support Office for the African Union Mission in Somalia) |
$455.98 million |
It then adopted without a vote a text on financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) (document A/66/835). The Assembly allocated to the Special Account for the Force the amount of $56.97 million for the period from 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2013, inclusive of $54.57 million for the maintenance of the Force,
