The foregoing represents the view of both Houses of Congress. During the Senate debate [last year] on the appropriations bill for State Department funds a Sense of the Congress Resolution was approved supporting the U.S. statement at Santiago and urged the General Assembly to "favorably consider and adopt the U.S. proposal at an early date."

I wish emphatically to reiterate my government's hope and belief that this change in the assessed quotas of the various members can be achieved without damaging the OAS development assistance activities. We recognize that what is needed is [a] phased approach to the change in quotas, in which the other members would have time to adjust to the larger shares they may be asked to bear.

OAS Doc. OEA/Ser.G, CP/doc.693/77 corr. 1, May 16, 1977. For excerpts from the text of Secretary Kissinger's statement at Santiago on June 11, 1976, see the 1976 Digest. Ch. 2, § 4A, pp. 24–25.

U.S. Contributions

On December 28, 1977, Secretary Vance signed a letter transmitting to the Congress the twenty-fifth report on the extent and disposition of U.S. contributions to international organizations. The report indicated that U.S. contributions to international organizations and programs other than international financial institutions totaled $609.6 million in fiscal year [FY] 1976.

Set forth below are portions of the introduction to the report describing its contents:

The contributions listed in this report are appropriated to the Department of State or to the Agency for International Develop ment, except where otherwise indicated. The report deals with contributions to multilateral organizations, i.e., intergovernmental bodies having three or more members. Bilateral organizations are not covered in the text or in the total figures, nor are the interna.. tional financial institutions such as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; the latter are the subject of report to the Congress by the National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Policies. Other items of expense excluded from the tabular presentation. . . are:

(a) the cost to the U.S. Government of the salaries and expenses of American employees detailed to the secretariats of international organizations (e.g., the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development);

(b) loans to international organizations which are to be repaid to the U.S. Government;

(c) commodities donated pursuant to Public Law 480, except such commodities specifically pledged as a part of a U.S. contribu

(d) two-party contractual or other arrangements between an agency of the U.S. Government and an international organization for research or other services.

U.S. contributions to international organizations and programs totaled $608.5 million in fiscal year 1976. . . . These figures include assessed contributions of $247.7 million to 60 international organizations . . . and voluntary contributions of $360.8 million in cash, commodities, and services to 39 [international programs]. Of these totals $341.2 million . . . were for programs in support of economic development and humanitarian assistance activities and $51.5 million and $4.8 million were contributed to U.N. peacekeeping operations, of which $31.9 [million] was assessed and $24.4 million voluntary.

Our assessed contribution to international organizations in fiscal year 1976 came to 26.00 percent of total assessments against all Member States, while our voluntary contributions represented 25.62 percent of the total. On an overall basis, we contributed 26.18 percent of total contributions (both assessed and voluntary) to all the organizations and programs

Of the total assessed contributions in FY 1976 of $215.8 million, $143.9 million, or slightly more than two-thirds of that total helped finance the regular activities of the United Nations, its specialized agencies, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. The remainder consisted of $45.5 million for eight inter-American organizations, $19.7 million for seven other regional organizations, and $6.6 million for 32 miscellaneous organizations. In addition, the United States contributed $31.8 million or 28.89 percent of the assessment budget to the U.N. peacekeeping operation in the Middle East

[T]he total voluntary contributions for FY 1976 [amounted to] $360.7 million . . . . [Of this] $341.2 million, or 94.59 percent of the total of such contributions, was contributed to 37 special programs within the U.N. system in support of economic development and humanitarian activities . . . . [The remaining percentage, which amounted to $19.6 million, was contributed to two U.N. peacekeeping organizations, the U.N. Force in Cyprus and the U.N. Emergency Force and U.N. Disengagement Observer Force.] The largest contribution for FY 1976 amounted to $100 million and was made to the U.N. Development Program (UNDP). Other major contributions including cash, commodities, and services amounted to $84.4 million to the U.N./FAO World Food Program and $26.7 million to the UNRWA . . .; also $20 million to the U.N. Fund for Population Activities and $20 million to UNICEF's regular program.

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United States Contributions to International Organizations: Report to the Congress for Fiscal Year 1976, Dept. of State Pub. No. 8929 (footnotes omitted). Set forth below is a table compiled from the report indicating the U.S. assessed contributions to international organizations in 1976 in dollar amounts and in the percent that these dollar assessments constitute in the annual budgets of these international organizations:

Id. The amounts reported include the annual contributions, and, where applicable, advances to the organizations' working capital funds. Credits due the United States are deducted. This table does not include loans (or repayment thereof) such as the loan to the United Nations for the construction of its headquarters, the purchase of U.N. bonds, or loans under the Indus Basin and Tarbela Development Funds. Neither does this table include commodities unless a contribution was pledged in kind, nor contracts and/or research grants by U.S. Government agencies for services or research performed by an international organization:

On July 5, 1977, William Jones, U.S. Permanent Delegate to the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), presented to UNESCO Director-General Amadou Mahtar M'Bow a check for more than $43 million to cover the U.S. assessments for 1975 and 1976, including the supplemental assessment approved by the 19th General Conference, the U.S. advance to the working capital fund, and a payment for income tax equivilization. Dept. of State File 10/UNESCO.

F. POWERS AND RULES OF ORGANS

United Nations Secretary-General

On September 29, 1977, the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 415, which "[r]equests the Secretary-General to appoint. . . a representative to enter into discussions, with the British Resident