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8. Reaffirms that the use of gratis personnel shall be phased out by 31 December 1998 in accordance with
paragraph 2 of General Assembly resolution 52/218 of 22 December 1997;
9. Also reaffirms that gratis personnel should be treated in accordance with its resolution 51/243 and its
resolution 52/234 of 26 June 1998;
10. Requests the Secretary-General to include information on the monthly post incumbency in future budget
proposals;
11. Emphasizes that the delegation of authority for human resources management should be strictly in
accordance with the existing Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations;
12. Also emphasizes that the recruitment of staff in the International Tribunal for Rwanda should be in
accordance with Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations;
13. Takes note of the information provided by the Secretariat that the Registry is working closely with the
Office of Human Resources Management in reviewing the current remuneration package applicable to staff of
the International Tribunal for Rwanda with a view to improving the conditions of service at Arusha and Kigali
within the context of the United Nations common system, and requests the International Civil Service
Commission to submit its proposals in this regard in the context of its annual report for 1999, no later than 1
November 1999;
14. Also takes note of the new arrangement in paragraph 28 of the report of the Secretary-General,7 and
in paragraphs 1 and 78 to 82 in annex IV to the report of the Secretary-General;
15. Emphasizes that the new arrangement should not deprive the judges of their supervisory role vis-à-vis
the legal support staff;
16. Notes with concern that a number of workload indicators are inaccurate, inflated and unjustifiable;
17. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the workload indicators are monitored and checked for
accuracy and consistency;
18. Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure that expenditure data from the field are entered into the
main expenditure record on a timely basis;
19. Notes with appreciation the efforts made to address the problems and to improve the overall
functioning of the International Tribunal for Rwanda;
20. Requests the Secretary-General to include a section in future budget proposals on the implementation
of the recommendations of oversight bodies;
21. Also requests the Secretary-General to maintain an accounting inventory record of the furniture and
equipment acquired for the International Tribunal for Rwanda since its establishment (purchase and depreciation)
in accordance with the relevant regulations and rules and relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, and to
provide a succinct summary of that information in his next report on the financing of the Tribunal;
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