A/RES/60/282 10. Stresses the need for a long-term strategy for office accommodation at Headquarters; 11. Requests that a comprehensive study on the feasibility of the proposed construction of a building on the North Lawn, including a number of other factors that have not been included in the business analysis contained in the report of the Secretary-General,7 on security, architectural, and host city and community issues, be included in the context of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2008–2009; 12. Requests the Secretary-General, considering the need to continue to explore ways to increase procurement opportunities for vendors from developing countries and countries with economies in transition, to take the provisions of its resolutions 54/14 of 29 October 1999, 55/247 of 12 April 2001 and 59/288 of 13 April 2005 on procurement reform fully into consideration in the implementation of the capital master plan; 13. Notes that the Office of the Capital Master Plan will provide resources to the Office of Internal Oversight Services in order to ensure an appropriate construction audit for the capital master plan, and requests the Secretary-General to report on the findings thereon in the context of the relevant reports, including the annual report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services throughout the phases of the project; 14. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that procurement processes related to the capital master plan are conducted in a transparent manner and in full compliance with relevant General Assembly resolutions; 15. Welcomes the establishment of the capital master plan website; 16. Requests the Secretary-General ensure that financial disclosure statements are filed by staff involved with the capital master plan in accordance with relevant General Assembly resolutions; 17. Recognizes that the cash payment option, based on a one-time assessment or multi-year special assessments, would be the simplest and the most cost-effective approach for meeting the cost of the capital master plan; 18. Decides to revert, at the main part of its sixty-first session, to the issue of the funding plan for the capital master plan, including the credit facilities or instruments referred to in paragraph 35 of the third annual progress report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the capital master plan 14 as well as the feasibility of a one-time upfront payment option, and in this context requests the Secretary-General to propose, inter alia, to the General Assembly, also at the main part of its sixty-first session, a mechanism that would ensure that Member States that pay their assessed contributions for the capital master plan in full and on time will not bear any financial liabilities and/or other obligations derived from the possible utilization of those credit facilities or instruments; 19. Also decides to convert the existing commitment authority of 77 million United States dollars into an appropriation, with assessment on Member States in 2006 on the basis of the regular budget scale of assessments in effect for the year; _______________ 14 A/60/550 and Corr.1 and 2. 3