The UN General Assembly (UNGA) approved a budget for the UN Secretariat’s 2025 operations, following deliberations in the UNGA’s Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) that concluded on 24 December 2024.
The regular budget for 2025 will be USD 3.72 billion – around USD 120 million more than the USD 3.6 billion figure unveiled by UN Secretary-General António Guterres in October 2024 – and USD 130 million greater than the Organization’s 2024 budget. The total budget appropriation for 2025 amounts to USD 3,717,379,600.
Having considered the report of the Fifth Committee on the ‘Proposed programme budget for 2025’(A/C.5/79/L.26), the UNGA adopted the budget on 24 December without a vote.
The Committee did not give the Secretary-General the USD 8.5 million appropriation he had requested to begin carrying out the Pact for the Future, approving an additional USD 2.9 million appropriation for 2025 instead. The USD 2.9 million appropriation, along with the establishment of seven new posts on 1 January 2025, are included in Part X of the resolution, ‘Special subjects relating to the proposed programme budget for 2025” (A/C.5/79/L.24).
Per a UN press release, “[t]he regular budget funds UN programmes across key areas, including political affairs, international justice and law, regional cooperation for development, human rights and humanitarian affairs, and public information.”
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