Special Representatives, Envoys and Related Positions

A/RES/48/259View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda items 123 Proposed programme budget for the biennium 1994-1995 and 138a Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations, published in 1994.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1994–1996

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/50/219

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1996	A/RES/50/219	Special representatives, envoys and related positions	134	39%Compare
1994	A/RES/48/259	Special representatives, envoys and related positions	246	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Budget Financing Guidelines Peacekeeping Operations Recommendations Salaries and Allowances Special Missions Top Echelon Staff

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General 1/ and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions; 2/

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Advisory Committee as contained in its report;

Requests the Secretary-General to clarify the position of special representatives and envoys appointed on a "when actually employed" basis, on special service agreement, on a one United States dollar-a-year honorarium or with no remuneration, and to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session such special guidelines as would need to be applied to these types of contractual arrangements, including a set of objective criteria for determining the level of such positions and the form of remuneration to be used;

Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the number of special envoys, special representatives and other special high-level positions is kept at a minimum, that their functions and responsibilities are more clearly defined and streamlined, avoiding any possible duplication, and that current financial regulations and budgetary procedures are fully complied with, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session;

A/C.5/48/26 and Add.1.

A/48/7/Add.7.

Decides that a period of three hundred and sixty-five days shall be used for the calculation of the daily salary of high-level officials working on a "when actually employed" basis;

Takes note of the annex to the addendum to the report of the Secretary-General. 3/

A/C.5/48/26/Add.1.

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