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A nnex II Support account general temporary assistance positions to be established for the period from 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010 Number of positions
Organizational unit
Position level
Department of Peacekeeping Operations Office of Operations Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions Policy, Evaluation and Training Division
Continuation New
2 1
1 P-4, 1 GS (OL) 1 P-3
Continuation
8
1 P-5, 3 P-4, 3 P-3, 1 GS (OL)
Subtotal
11
Department of Field Support Field Personnel Division
Continuation New Continuation
Field Budget and Finance Division Logistics Support Division Continuation New Subtotal
6 13 1
4 P-3, 2 GS (OL) 11 P-3, 2 GS (OL) 1 P-4
2 1 23
2 P-3 1 P-3
Department of Management Office of the UnderSecretary-General Office of Programme Planning, Budget and Accounts Office of Human Resources Management* Office of Central Support Services
New
2
1 P-4, 1 GS (OL)
Continuation
14
5 P-4, 4 P-3, 1 P-2, 4 GS (OL)
New
22
4 P-4, 4 P-3, 2 P-2, 12 GS (OL) 3 GS (OL)
Continuation New Subtotal
3 4 45
3 P-3, 1 P-2
Office of Internal Oversight Services Investigations Division
Continuation
2
New
7
Continuation
New
Office of Legal Affairs Ethics Office Office of Information and Communications Technology
14
6
Continuation
10
Continuation
12
Subtotal
51
New
1
Subtotal Continuation Subtotal Continuation
1 2 2 7
New Subtotal
Total
3 10 143
New York: 1 P-3, 1 GS (OL) New York: 1 P-5, 3 P-4, 1 P-3, 2 GS (OL) Vienna: 1 D-1, 1 P-5, 2 P-4, 7 P-3, 2 GS (OL), 1 GS (PL) Nairobi: 1 D-1, 1 P-5, 1 P-4, 1 P-3, 2 GS (OL) Nairobi: 3 P-4, 5 P-3, 2 GS (OL) MONUC: 1 P-4, 1 P-3, 1 NGS UNMIL: 1 P-4, 2 P-3, 1 NGS UNMIS: 1 P-4, 2 P-3 MINUSTAH: 1 P-4 UNOCI: 1 P-4 1 P-4 1 P-3, 1 GS (OL) 5 P-3, 2 GS (OL)
A Secretary-General’s report [A/63/581] updated the information on the financial position of 21 closed peacekeeping missions as at 30 June 2008. The net cash surplus in the accounts of 16 closed missions available for credit to Member States as at that date amounted to $186,297,000. That amount did not include loans totalling $37,816,000 owed by two closed missions—the United Nations Support Mission in Haiti/United Nations Transition Mission in Haiti/United Nations Civilian Police Mission in Haiti ($7,366,000) and the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic ($3,450,000)—and by two active peacekeeping missions—minurso ($14,000,000) and unmik ($13,000,000)—which remained unpaid. Five of the 21 closed missions reflected cash deficits totalling $86,712,000, owing to outstanding payments of assessed contributions. The Secretary-General recommended that the General Assembly approve retention of the cash balance of $186,297,000 available in 16 closed peacekeeping missions, in the light of the experience with respect to cash requirements of the Organization during the 2007/08 and 2008/09 financial periods. In May [A/63/856], acabq provided its comments on the Secretary-General’s report. With respect to the disposition of the $186,297,000, it cited regulation 5.3 of the United Nations Financial Regulations and Rules, which provided that appropriations should remain available for 12 months following the end of the financial period to which they related, to the extent that they were required to discharge obligations in respect of goods supplied and services rendered in the financial period, and to liquidate any other outstanding legal obligation of the financial period. The regulation also stated that the balance of the appropriations should be surrendered. The Advisory Committee reiterated its view that it was for the General Assembly to decide on the disposition of such balances. On 30 June, the General Assembly deferred consideration of the Secretary-General’s and acabq reports until its sixty-fourth session (decision 63/550 C). Also on 30 June, by decision 63/557, the Assembly decided to return two thirds of the credits available in the account of the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission to the Government of Kuwait in the amount of $996,800. It also decided to continue to consider the updated financial position of closed peacekeeping missions during its sixty-fourth (2009) session.
1 P-5, 2 P-3
*Note: General temporary assistance positions equivalent to 2,018,900
dollars (before the application of the approved vacancy rates). Abbreviations: GS (OL), General Service (Other Level); GS (PL), General Service (Principal Level); NGS (National General Service).
Accounts and auditing At its resumed sixty-third (2009) session, the General Assembly considered the financial report and audited financial statements for UN peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2007 to 30 June