A/RES/59/301
4.
Requests the Secretary-General to ensure the full implementation of the
relevant provisions of General Assembly resolution 59/296 of 22 June 2005;
5.
Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the relevant
report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 3 subject
to the provisions of the present resolution;
6.
Requests the Secretary-General to rejustify the need for the P-5 post in the
Executive Office of the Secretary-General at the sixtieth session;
7.
Decides to maintain, for the period from 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006, the
funding mechanism for the support account used in the current period, from 1 July 2004
to 30 June 2005, as approved in paragraph 3 of its resolution 50/221 B of 7 June 1996;
Reaffirms the need for the Secretary-General to ensure that delegation of
8.
authority to the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the Secretariat and field
missions is in strict compliance with relevant resolutions and decisions and the relevant
rules and procedures of the General Assembly on this matter;
Decides to provide general temporary assistance to implement and monitor
9.
the environmental protection programmes in the field, and requests the SecretaryGeneral to rejustify this position by providing additional information on the necessity of
the backstopping capacity at Headquarters and on the ongoing cooperative arrangements
with the United Nations Environment Programme in the area of environmental
protection;
10. Approves the establishment of the post of Police Generation Officer (P-4) in
the Civilian Police Division;
11. Decides to provide general temporary assistance for the P-3 post for the
secretariat of the Fifth Committee;
12. Requests the Secretary-General to entrust the Office of Internal Oversight
Services to conduct an audit of standard costs applied to headquarters overheads such as
furniture and rental of premises, providing comparative costs on current market prices
for these items, and to submit its findings to the General Assembly at the second part of
its resumed sixtieth session;
13. Decides that all future requests for additional headquarters capacity linked to
new or expanded peacekeeping or peace support missions must be accompanied by an
analysis of spare capacity created by any downsizing or liquidation of other missions;
14. Also decides that following the end of mandate of missions, mission-specific
posts in the Office of Operations of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations should
be disestablished or redeployed and reflected accordingly in the next support account
proposal;
15. Further decides not to provide funds in the amount of 350,000 United States
dollars for the independent review of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, as
requested in paragraph 63 of the report of the Secretary-General; 4
16. Decides not to provide funds for Enterprise Content Management and
Customer Relationship Management pilot projects, with the exception of the resources of
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A/59/784.
A/59/730.
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