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86. Requests the Secretary-General to take appropriate and timely measures
to ensure secretariat services for the Commission and its subcommissions for the
extended duration of time requested in the decision of the twenty -first Meeting of
States Parties to the Convention; 15
87. Also requests the Secretary-General, consequently, to continue to allocate
appropriate and sufficient resources to the Division to provide adequate services and
assistance to the Commission in view of the increase in the number of its working
weeks;
88. Expresses its appreciation to States that have made contributions to the
voluntary trust fund established pursuant to resolution 55/7 for the purpose of
facilitating the preparation of submissions to the Commission and to the voluntary
trust fund also established pursuant to that resolution for the purpose of defraying
the cost of participation of the members of the Commission from developing States
in the meetings of the Commission, 23 encourages States to make additional
contributions to these funds, and authorizes the use, as appropriate, of the latter trust
fund, and in accordance with the purpose of its terms of reference, to defray the cost
of the participation of the Chair of the Commission who is a member of the
Commission nominated by a developing country in the Meetings of States Parties to
the Convention;
89. Authorizes the Secretary-General, as an interim measure and subject to
the availability of funds in the trust fund established pursuant to resolution 55/7 for
facilitating the participation of members of the Commission from developing States
in the meetings of the Commission, following the allocation of the required funds to
cover the costs of travel and daily subsistence allowance of the members of the
Commission from developing States for the sessions of the Commission in 2016, to
reimburse those members for the costs of medical travel insurance from that trust
fund on a session-by-session basis and subject to a reasonable limit that the
Secretary-General shall determine, based on the information regarding medical
travel insurance available to him;
90. Takes note of the written information, provided by the Secretary-General
in response to the request in paragraph 81 of resolution 69/245, on options for
mechanisms to provide medical insurance coverage to members of the Commission,
including costs, and expresses its intention to continue to consider these and other
options and, if necessary, to further review the terms of reference for the trust fund
established pursuant to resolution 55/7 for the purpose of facilitating the
participation of members of the Commission from developing States in the meetings
of the Commission;
91. Emphasizes the need for members of the Commission to have more
suitable working space for their work at the sessions of the Commission and its
subcommissions and, in this regard, recognizes the written information, provided by
the Secretary-General in response to the request in paragraph 84 of resolution
69/245, on options to ensure that they have such working space, and notes that
consideration of structural changes to the current working space of the Commission
would need to take due account of the upcoming expiry of the lease for the curren t
premises of the Division and other issues raised in the study on the long -term
accommodation needs at United Nations Headquarters for the period from 2014 to
2034 46 and the associated consideration of those issues by the General Assembly;
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