Special Representatives, Envoys and Related Positions

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

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2 versions · 1994–1996

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1994A/RES/48/259Special representatives, envoys and related positions

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8 topics

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

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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;

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/

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