Based on our calculations, in 2008-09 we estimate that the UK’s share of assessed costs to individual missions paid for from within conflict resources will be as follows:
£ UN Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT) 18,297,738 UN Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) 19,968,022 UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) 49,272,772 UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) 1,334,652 UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) 25,323,581 UN African Union: UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) 64,197,346 UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) 30,070,770 UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) 1,392,357 UN Integrated Mission in East Timor (UNMIT) 6,008,093 UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) 1,462,365 UN Disengagement Observer Force Zone (UNDOF) 1,834,559 UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) 24,201,172 UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) 7,480,504 UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) 28,307,578 UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) 1,764,832 UN International Criminal Court 5,463,876 UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda 5,403,725 UN International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia 7,145,468 UN/AU UN Logistical Support to African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) 1,960,880 Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe field missions 9,633,681 EU Common Foreign and Security 15,100,000 EU Force in Chad (EUFOR) 6,647,350 EU NAVFOR Atalanta 340,466 Total 332,611,787
We have budgeted for £456 million for assessed costs in 2009-10. As most of these costs are yet to be agreed in the relevant international forum, we do not yet have reliable estimates for individual missions.
The projected increase in the UK’s assessed peacekeeping contributions in 2009-10 is the result of both an increase in peacekeeping activity international and the fall in the value of sterling against the US dollar and the euro.
The impact of exchange rate changes in financial year 2008-09 has been partly offset by the effects of forward purchasing our foreign currency requirement.
We have earmarked £456 million for assessed costs in 2009-10. However, this remains a projection as UN peacekeeping costs are still to be negotiated by the UN General Assembly for 2009-10, and future UN peacekeeping activity remains subject to decisions by the UN Security Council. We cannot provide an accurate estimate of the additional costs caused by the fall in the value of sterling rather than through the expansion of international peacekeeping missions until the budgets for each of the individual missions are agreed and payments made.
Of the additional £71 million to be provided by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Ministry of Defence (MOD) and Department for International Development (DFID) for discretionary conflict activity (conflict prevention, stabilisation and peacekeeping), £15 million (21 per cent.) has been provided by the FCO, £22.5 million (32 per cent.) by the MOD and £33.5 million (47 per cent.) by DFID.
The final budgets contained within the written ministerial statement are the original and only allocation figures for South Asia and Afghanistan for financial year 2009-10.
South Asia and Afghanistan received £56.4 million in 2008-09 and has been allocated £61.3 million for 2009-10.
Of the additional £71 million to be provided by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Ministry of Defence (MOD) and Department for International Development (DfID) for discretionary conflict activity (conflict prevention, stabilisation and peacekeeping), £15 million (21 per cent.) has been provided by the FCO, £22.5 million (32 per cent.) by the MOD and £33.5 million (47 per cent.) by DflD.