12/31/2020 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 12/31/2020 19:02
Approving $3.21Â Billion Budget, General Assembly Adopts 25Â Resolutions, Decisions from its Main Committees, Concluding Main Part of Seventy-Fifth Session
Concluding the main part of its seventy-fifth session, the General Assembly approved $3.21 billion for 2021 and adopted 22 resolutions and 3 decisions recommended by its Main Committees.
Adopting a range of drafts recommended by its Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary), the Assembly approved resources for 2021, the Organization s second annual budget in nearly 50 years, by a recorded vote of 168 in favour to 2 against (Israel, United States) and no abstentions. The 2021 budget was greater than the $2.99 billion budget proposal unveiled by Secretary-General António Guterres in mid-October. Up slightly from last year s $3.07 billion appropriation, the 2021 budget keeps the Organization s doors open and its staff working amid a global pandemic