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10. Further requests the Secretary-General, in full cooperation with the
International Tribunal for Rwanda, to ensure that due consideration is given in all future
budget proposals for the Tribunal to the provision of resources to facilitate the enforcement
of sentences;
11. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure adequate oversight of prison facility
upgrade projects and the subsequent maintenance of minimum international prison
standards where those maintenance costs are borne by the United Nations;
12. Also requests the Secretary-General to continue to assess the accuracy of the
cost estimates proposed in his report on the enforcement of sentences,4 to report thereon to
the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session, and to keep the cost estimates under
periodic review;
13. Urges the International Tribunal for Rwanda to continue to consult closely with
the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the development and
implementation of its own completion strategy;
14. Requests the Secretary-General to prepare a comprehensive report on the
progress made by the International Tribunal for Rwanda in reforming its legal aid system
for consideration by the General Assembly at the main part of its fifty-eighth session;
15. Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
fifty-eighth session the proposed budget of the International Tribunal for Rwanda for the
biennium 2004–2005, which should include the following elements:
(a) The budget should include detailed information as to how the resources
requested for the biennium will support the development of a sound and realistic
completion strategy and the status of implementation of Board of Auditors
recommendations, where relevant, with regard to specific items of proposed expenditure;
(b) The budget requirements for the Registry, the Office of the Prosecutor and the
non-judicial, administrative functions of the Chambers should be presented in a resultsbased format linking objectives and inputs to expected accomplishments to be measured by
indicators of achievement;
(c) Revised arrangements for preventing overexpenditures by defence counsel and
for managing, monitoring and controlling the expenses of the legal aid system of the
International Tribunal for Rwanda should be included in support of proposals for defence
costs, including a full definition and establishment of quantitative criteria for determining
indigence and partial indigence based on, inter alia, the defendants’ circumstances and
ability to pay;
(d) Proposed allocations for costs for travel of investigators should be supported
by those procedures implemented by the Registrar in order not to exceed requirements;
(e) The proposed post structure for the biennium 2004–2005 should reflect
reductions and shifts in requirements within the International Tribunal for Rwanda owing
to the expected completion of investigations by 2003 and, where appropriate, address any
new requirements for established posts through redeployment;
16. Further requests the Secretary-General to consider the introduction, wherever
feasible, in the International Tribunal for Rwanda of all measures undertaken in the
International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia that have proved effective with regard to
controlling administrative costs, including maintaining efficient administrative and
managerial functions;
17. Approves the additional resources for the International Tribunal for Rwanda for
2003 as recommended by the Advisory Committee, except that the staffing complement
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