Questions Relating to the Programme Budget for the Biennium 2006-2007

A/RES/60/246View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 124 Proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006-2007, published in 2006.

What else is in this group?

29 documents · 1977–2015

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2015).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2015	A/RES/69/262	Questions relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2014-2015	6,604	–
2013	A/RES/67/246	Questions relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2012-2013	8,403	–
2011	A/RES/65/259	Questions relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2010-2011	7,116	–
2009	A/RES/63/263	Questions relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2008-2009	3,221	–
2007	A/RES/61/252	Questions relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2006-2007	3,117	–

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Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2006

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2006	A/61/282	Identification of additional resources for the Development Account report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/60/246

What subjects does this mandate have?

9 subjects

Accountability Crime Victims Development Finance Financial Implications Programme Budgeting Recommendations Resources Allocation Rwanda Staffing

What’s in this document?

14 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms that the Fifth Committee is the appropriate Main Committee of the General Assembly entrusted with responsibilities for administrative and budgetary matters;

Also reaffirms rule 153 of its rules of procedure;

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination as contained in paragraphs 61, 67 and 106 to 122 of its report;Error: Reference source not found

Notes that consideration of the programme narratives contained in the revised estimates⁷ will follow consideration thereof by the Committee for Programme and Coordination no later than September 2006;

⁷A/60/537.

Endorses, subject to the provisions of the present resolution and without establishing a precedent, the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions concerning posts and non-post resources as contained in chapter II of its first report on the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006–2007,⁸ and the resource recommendations contained in its reports on revised estimates, including those on the 2005 World Summit Outcome,⁹ and on statements of programme budget implications relating to decisions taken by the Main Committees of the General Assembly;

⁸Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (A/60/7 and Corr.1).

⁹A/60/7/Add.5, 13 and Corr.1 and 2, Add.15, 17–20 and 25–32.

Decides that the staffing table for the biennium 2006–2007 shall be as set out in the annex to the present resolution;

Also decides to extend for the biennium 2006–2007 the experiment approved under paragraph 14 of General Assembly resolution 58/270, and requests the Secretary-General to report to the Assembly at its sixty-first session on the implementation of the experiment;

Requests the Secretary-General to utilize the arrangements referred to in paragraph 7 above to identify available posts to provide for the new post requests referred to in paragraphs IV.2, IV.28 and IV.29 of the first report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions on the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006–2007,7 as well as in paragraph 5 of the second report of the Advisory Committee on the proposed programme budget;¹⁰

¹⁰A/60/7/Add.1.

Recalls its decision in paragraph 3 (b) of its resolution 59/313 of 12 September 2005 entitled “A strengthened and revitalized General Assembly”, and endorses the proposals contained in paragraph 3 of the statement of the Secretary-General on the programme budget implications;¹¹

¹¹A/C.5/59/35/Rev.1.

Decides to provide resources at the level sought by the Secretary-General in his statement of programme budget implications arising in respect of the draft resolution relating to Rwanda outreach and the amendment thereto;¹²

¹²A/C.5/60/20.

Recognizes the need for limited discretion in budgetary implementation for the Secretary-General within defined parameters to be agreed by the General Assembly along with clear accountability mechanisms to the Assembly for its use, on the basis of recommendations of the Secretary-General to be provided to the Assembly at its resumed sixtieth session;

Requests the Secretary-General to achieve further efficiencies in non-post resources, and therefore decides to adjust non-post provisions covered in paragraph 5 above by a pro rata reduction of 1.75 per cent to be applied to all sections of the programme budget;

Recognizes that amendments to the provisions of the present resolution would stem from any decisions by the General Assembly in accordance with established procedures in response to proposals of the Secretary-General relating to paragraphs 161 to 167 of its resolution 60/1;

Decides that the Development Account shall be recosted for the biennium 2006–2007, and in this context requests the Secretary-General to pursue the relevant proposals contained in his report¹³ and to provide to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session recommendations on how additional resources in the region of 5 million dollars could be added to the Development Account.

¹³A/59/397.

Staffing table for the biennium 2006–2007

Category | 2006–2007 | Professional and above | Deputy Secretary-General | 1 | Under-Secretary-General | 29 | Assistant Secretary-General | 21 | D-2 | 90 | D-1 | 257 | P-5 | 745 | P-4/3 | 2 501 | P-2/1 | 491 | Subtotal | 4 135 | General Service | Principal level | 278 | Other level | 2 710 | Subtotal | 2 988 | Other | Security Service | 306 | Local level | 1 849 | Field Service | 183 | Trades and Crafts | 176 | Subtotal | 2 514 | Total | 9 637

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