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Special Adviser, ensuring that all plans of action on gender mainstreaming in peacekeeping
operations are consistent with the existing mandates;
22. Stresses that the creation of a gender adviser in the Best Practices Unit of the
Department of Peacekeeping Operations does not constitute a precedent to be followed by
other departments and should not itself lead to the establishment of a gender unit in the
Department, and also stresses the importance of not duplicating functions and capacities
that already exist elsewhere in the Secretariat;
23. Decides to review the establishment and the level of the post of gender adviser
in the context of paragraph 14 above;
24. Requests the Secretary-General, through the Office of Internal Oversight
Services, to report to the General Assembly at its resumed fifty-eighth session on the cases
processed by the regional investigators;
25. Decides to establish, on a trial basis, a P-4 post in the Monitoring, Evaluation
and Consulting Division of the Office of Internal Oversight Services to undertake
oversight functions with regard to military aspects of peacekeeping operations, and also
not to approve the amount covering six months of consultancy services for three experts
mentioned in paragraph 70 of the report of the Advisory Committee;8
26. Requests the Secretary-General to report on the implementation and impact of
this decision in the context of his support account budget proposal for the period from
1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006;
27. Concurs with the observation of the Advisory Committee in paragraph 51 of its
report8 that the term “inspectorate” or “inspector-general” does not appropriately reflect
the intended use of the consultancy funds requested in paragraph 43 of the report of the
Secretary-General on the budget for the support account for the period from 1 July 2003 to
30 June 20043 and should not be used;
28. Requests the Secretary-General to report on the relationship between the
proposals requested in paragraphs 43 and 62 of his report,3 and decides to review this issue
in the context of the consideration of the proposed budget for the support account for the
period from 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006;
29. Decides not to approve the resources requested in paragraph 115 of the report
of the Secretary-General,3 and requests the Secretary-General to present a full justification
for the establishment of those posts in the context of his next budget submission for the
support account for the period from 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005;
30. Approves the Military Division training budget at the level requested by the
Secretary-General;13
31. Regrets that the Secretary-General has not included in his report an annex
containing information on the status of implementation of relevant adopted
recommendations made by the Advisory Committee and other oversight bodies, as
requested in paragraph 17 of its resolution 56/293;
Financial performance report for the period from 1 July 2001 to 30 June 2002
32. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the financial performance
of the support account for peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2001 to
30 June 2002;2
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