A/RES/60/282 Budgetary Questions, 12 as well as the oral report of the Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 13 1. Reiterates its serious concern about the hazards, risks and deficiencies of the current conditions of the United Nations Headquarters Building, which endanger the safety, health and well-being of staff, visitors, tourists and delegations, including high-level delegations; Takes note of the second1 and third2 annual progress reports of the 2. Secretary-General on the implementation of the capital master plan, the reports of the Secretary-General on cooperation with the City and State of New York related to the capital master plan,5 on the status of possible funding arrangements for the capital master plan6 and on the business analysis of the possibility of constructing a new permanent building on the North Lawn;7 3. Decides to revert, at the main part of its sixty-first session, to the consideration of the reports of the Secretary-General on viable options for ensuring sufficient parking space at United Nations Headquarters3 and on plans for three additional conference rooms and viable solutions for allowing natural light into the rooms,4 the note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Board of Auditors on the capital master plan for the biennium ended 31 December 2003,8 the report of the Board of Auditors for the year ended 31 December 20049 and the reports of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the capital master plan for the period from August 2003 through July 200410 and the period from August 2004 through July 2005;11 4. Notes the benefits, including economic ones, accruing to host countries from the presence of the United Nations, and the costs incurred; 5. Stresses the special role of the host country Government with regard to support for United Nations Headquarters in New York; 6. Recalls the current practices of host Governments with regard to support for United Nations headquarters and United Nations bodies located in their territories; Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that no action is taken that 7. would preclude any decision that the General Assembly might take on the construction of a new permanent building on the North Lawn at some future date; Approves, effective 1 July 2006, the recommended strategy for the 8. implementation of the capital master plan, strategy IV (phased approach), contained in the third annual progress report of the Secretary-General,2 including the phasing, swing space and cost, and decides to review the updated projected costs at the main part of its sixty-first session; Requests the Secretary-General to submit proposals to the General 9. Assembly at its sixty-first session, through the Committee on Conferences, on the possible adjustment of meeting schedules, including a change in venue of meetings for the United Nations intergovernmental organs that normally meet at Headquarters for the period of the implementation of the capital master plan; _______________ 12 A/59/556; and A/60/7/Add.38 (for the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 7A). 13 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Fifth Committee, 53rd meeting (A/C.5/59/SR.53), and corrigendum. 2