III-2 THE BUDGET OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR JULY 1, 1963-JUNE 30, 1964: Resolution Approved by the Council of the OAS, May 15, 1963 18 RESOLUTION ON PROGRAM AND APPROPRIATIONS THE COUNCIL OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES, RESOLVES: 14 1. To approve the program of activities presented by the Secretary General in the Proposed Program and Budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, with the changes recommended by the Committee on Program and Budget in its report. 2. To appropriate the amount of $13,740,271 to meet the expenses for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, and the amount of $893,968 for the Working Capital Fund, and to call upon the Secretary General to take into account the Resolution on the Execution of the Program and Budget and on the Financial Situation of the Pan American Union. These amounts are distributed as follows: Chapter I. Executive Office II. Inter-American Economic and Social Council and Panel III. Department of Economic Affairs IV. Department of Social Affairs V. Department of Statistics VI. Department of Technical Cooperation VII. Regional Offices VIII. Department of Legal Affairs Amount $383, 350 608, 314 1,250, 424 1, 135, 874 IX. Department of Cultural Affairs X. Department of Scientific Affairs XI. Department of Public Information XII. Department of Administrative Affairs XIII. Office of Council and Conference Secretariat Services XIV. Office of Publication Services XV. Office of Financial Services XVI. Common Staff Costs XVII. General Services XVIII. Permanent Equipment XIX. Debt Service XX. Contingencies 863, 885 2, 355, 931 103, 310 481, 562 Less: Adjustment for turnover of staff XXI. Inter-American Children's Institute XXII. Inter-American Defense Board Total BOAS doc. OEA/Ser.G/III/C-sa-493(2). $12, 917, 117 129,000 694, 154 $13, 740, 271 "It was agreed that the Committee on Program and Budget would study the possibility of obtaining, within the Program and Budget for the fiscal year 1963– 64, the amount of $22,826 to meet the expenses occasioned by the Inter-American Specialized Conference on Telecommunications. [Footnote in source text.] WORKING CAPITAL FUND 1. Appropriation to strengthen the Working Capital Fund 2. Reimbursements a. Expenses of secretariat services for the Inter- b. Expenses arising from the signing of contracts c. Expenses in connection with the Eighth d. Expenses in connection with the First Meeting e. Expenses in connection with the Second Meet- f. Expenses in connection with the Third Meeting Rev.) g. Partial reimbursement of the amount of 3. Credit Item to strengthen the Working Capital Fund; it TOTAL BUDGET FOR 1964 3. To authorize the Secretary General: a. To transfer the funds corresponding to Chapter XX, Contingencies, to other chapters and to use them to meet unforeseen requirements. b. To transfer funds among the rest of the chapters of the budget, not to exceed 5 per cent of the total assigned to the chapter from which these funds are taken, and provided that this does not mean the elimination or substantial alteration of any approved program. In the 15 See American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1961, pp. 424–431. 16 See ibid., 1962, pp. 320-331. 17 See post, title III-34. 18 Information on this meeting will appear in American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1964. 19 Ibid. 20 See American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1962, pp. 508-512. event that this transfer exceeds the aforementioned 5 per cent, the Secretary General must first obtain authorization from the Committee on Program and Budget. The Council shall be notified of all transfers at the close of the respective fiscal year. c. To transfer up to $25,000 a year from the Working Capital Fund in order to meet increases in printing costs, replacement of supplies of publications, and increase in editions of periodical publications. It is understood that funds taken from the Working Capital Fund shall be reimbursed by depositing in it income resulting from the sale of publications and that, with the financial statements of the corresponding year, a report shall be submitted on the matter. 4. To request of the Secretary General: a. That in connection with the item of $53,042 assigned to cover the expenses in connection with the Special Consultative Committee on Security he report to the Council on the distribution of this amount, once the Council approves the Statutes of the said committee. b. That he present to the Council, through the Committee on Program and Budget, so that the Council may properly study and approve it before July 1 of this year, a detailed budget for the Inter-American Children's Institute, within the sum approved for that institution. 5. To suspend, for reasons of economy, the provision contained in the second sentence of Article 28 of the Statutes of the Inter-American Economic and Social Council.21 III-3 THE SCALE OF ASSESSMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR JULY 1, 1963-JUNE 30, 1964: Resolution Approved by the Council of the OAS, May 15, 1963 22 THE COUNCIL OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES RESOLVES: 1. To establish, in accordance with the resolution adopted by the Council on the basis for financing the Pan American Union, dated December 21, 1949, the percentages and amounts set forth below, as the scale of assessments for the contributions to be made by the governments of the member states for the support of the Pan American Union for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1963, and ending June 30, 1964. Text in American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1961, p. 423. 21 22 2 OAS doc. OEA/Ser.G/III/C-sa-493 (2). 282, 441 282, 441 43,903 *This contribution is shown only for the purpose of establishing the correlative percentages. Note. In these amounts, cents have been eliminated. III-4 EXECUTION OF THE PROGRAM AND BUDGET AND THE FINANCIAL SITUATION OF THE PAN AMERICAN UNION: Resolution Approved by the Council of the OAS, May 15, 1963 23 WHEREAS: Article 81 of the Regulations of the Pan American Union establishes a Working Capital Fund for the purpose of ensuring the normal financial functioning of the Pan American Union; It has frequently been necessary in recent years to provide for extraordinary expenditures of the kinds mentioned in Articles 83.b and 83.c of the Regulations of the Pan American Union, with the result that the Working Capital Fund does not have sufficient cash resources; The Pan American Union has found itself in difficult financial situations, particularly during the current fiscal year, owing to the continuing increase in its budget, delays in payment of quotas, and the resulting situation in which necessary funds are not available to make the reimbursements to the Working Capital Fund agreed upon by the Council, and The payment of outstanding quotas and the adoption of measures to control expenditures would facilitate the solution of this problem, "OAS doc. OEA/Ser.G/III/C-sa-493(2). On June 18, 1963, the Council of the OAS had to authorize the Secretary General to negotiate a short-term loan to ease the immediate financial situation (OAS doc. OEA/Ser.G/III/C-sa-498 (6)). Efforts to put the Pan American Union on a more satisfactory financial basis continued in 1964. See American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1964. THE COUNCIL OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES, RESOLVES: To request of the Secretary General: a. That in Proposed Program and Budget for the fiscal year 1964– 65 he keep its total, except for vegetative increases, within the amount of $14,634,239 authorized for the fiscal year 1963-64. b. To take 4.5529 per cent of each quota or part thereof contributed by the member states and place this amount in the Working Capital Fund, since the actual allocations to the Fund represent this percentage in the actual budget of the Pan American Union. c. That during the fiscal year 1963-64 he keep the expenditures financed from the Budget of the Pan American Union within the total amount of the estimated income from quota contributions by the member states during that year, and that he inform the Committee on Program and Budget quarterly regarding the financial situation of the institution and the progress of its activities, in order to enable the Committee to follow the financial development of the Pan American Union closely and to take the measures that may be advisable. B. Political and Economic Developments in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean Area CENTRAL AMERICA III-5 "PEOPLES WHO HAVE WAITED CENTURIES FOR OPPORTUNITY AND DIGNITY CANNOT WAIT MUCH LONGER": Statement Made by the President of the United States (Kennedy) at the Meeting of the Presidents of Central America, Panama, and the United States at San José, Costa Rica, March 18, 1963 (Excerpt)1 Here in Central America we have already begun to move toward the goals of the Alianza. You have made enormous strides toward the creation of a common market of 13 million people. New regional institutions have been created; a central bank has been established;2 and centralized planning and direction are going ahead in education, finance, and many 1 1 White House press release (San José) dated Mar. 18, 1963 (text as printed in the Department of State Bulletin, Apr. 8, 1963, pp. 512-515). The Presidents of Central America, Panama, and the United States met at San José, Costa Rica, Mar. 18-20, 1963. 2 See American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1961, p. 268. Doc. III-5 |