Special subjects relating to the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2018–2019 A/RES/72/262 Thematic cluster I: special and personal envoys, advisers and representatives of the Secretary-General Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Yemen 11. Decides not to establish one position of Principal Security Sector Reform Officer (D-1) and one position of Political Affairs Officer (P -4); Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria 12. Recalls paragraph 23 of the report of the Advisory Committee, 48 and decides to abolish one position (P-4); Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General (Burundi) 13. Commends the work of the East African Community in facilitating mediation under the Inter-Burundi Dialogue to address the political challenges, supports the need for continued ownership by the East African Community of this process, and encourages the international community to continue to provide support, as appropriate; 14. Decides to approve the redeployment of one position of Special Assistant (P-3) to Ouagadougou; 15. Also decides to abolish one position of Senior Information Analyst (P -5); Thematic cluster II: sanctions monitoring teams, groups and panels, and other entities and mechanisms Panel of Experts on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 16. Takes note of paragraph 31 of the report of the Advisory Committee, 49 and decides to reduce resources for the additional subscriptions to global databases by 20 per cent; Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team pursuant to resolutions 1526 (2004) and 2253 (2015) concerning ISIL (Da’esh), Al-Qaida and the Taliban and associated individuals and entities; and the Office of the Ombudsperson established pursuant to resolution 1904 (2009) 17. Expresses concern about the combined presentation of the budgets of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team and the Office of the Ombudsperson established pursuant to Security Council resolution 1904 (2009) of 17 December 2009, and requests the Secretary-General to report on the budgets separately in the context of the next budget submission; 18. Decides to apply a 50 per cent vacancy rate for the Office of the Ombudsperson; Implementation of Security Council resolution 2231 (2015) 19. Takes note of paragraph 35 of the report of the Advisory Committee, 49 and decides to approve an additional 25 per cent reduction for official travel for the implementation of Security Council resolution 2231 (2015) of 20 July 2015; 20. Decides to reclassify two P-4 positions as P-3 positions; __________________ 48 49 17-23363 A/72/7/Add.11. A/72/7/Add.12. 23/27