A/RES/59/17 Chief of Public Information; Spokesperson; Head of the Political Affairs and Planning Division; and requests the Secretary-General to re-justify these posts in his next budget with additional information on the appropriate grades; 11. Requests the Secretary-General to take all necessary action to ensure that the Mission is administered with a maximum of efficiency and economy; 12. Also requests the Secretary-General, in order to reduce the cost of employing General Service staff, to continue to make efforts to recruit local staff for the Mission against General Service posts, commensurate with the requirements of the Mission; Budget estimates for the period from 1 May 2004 to 30 June 2005 13. Takes note that in paragraph 7.II (c) of its resolution 1542 (2004), the Security Council mandates the Mission to assist in organizing, monitoring and carrying out free and fair municipal, parliamentary and presidential elections; 14. Requests the Secretary-General to implement fully the mandate given to him and to measure the Mission’s accomplishments, in particular expected accomplishment 2.3, 3 fully in accordance with the Security Council mandate; 15. Decides to appropriate to the Special Account for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti the amount of 49,259,800 dollars for the period from 1 May to 30 June 2004 previously authorized by the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions for the establishment of the Mission under the terms of section IV of General Assembly resolution 49/233 A of 23 December 1994; 16. Decides also to appropriate to the Special Account for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti the amount of 379,046,800 dollars for the period from 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005, inclusive of the amount of 172,480,500 dollars previously authorized by the Assembly in its resolution 58/311 for the period from 1 July to 31 October 2004; Financing of the appropriation 17. Decides further to apportion among Member States the amount of 206,566,300 dollars at a monthly rate of 25,820,787 dollars for the maintenance of the Mission for the period from 1 November 2004 to 30 June 2005, taking into account the amount of 172,480,500 dollars already apportioned by the General Assembly for the period from 1 July to 31 October 2004 in its resolution 58/311, in accordance with the levels set out in its resolution 55/235, as adjusted by the Assembly in its resolution 55/236 of 23 December 2000 and updated in its resolution 58/256 of 23 December 2003, taking into account the scale of assessments for 2004 and 2005 as set out in its resolution 58/1 B of 23 December 2003, subject to a decision of the Security Council to extend the mandate of the Mission; _______________ 3 See A/59/288, sect I. 3