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: I thank you, Madam, for this opportunity to apprise the Council on the progress made in strengthening financial and administrative oversight of the current Development Fund for Iraq (DFI), on the legal issues and options to be considered to implement successor arrangements, and on the assessment of the Government of Iraq’s progress in preparing for the successor arrangements for the DFI, as presented in the Secretary-General’s report (S/2010/359) pursuant to paragraph 3 of resolution 1905 (2009).

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(Controller), introducing the note by the Secretary-General on financing arrangements for the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) for the period from 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011 (A/65/512), recalled that the General Assembly, by its resolution 64/275, had appropriated an amount of $1,365,000,000 for the period from 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011 for the maintenance of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) and had decided to apportion among Member States the amount of $682,500,000 for the six-month period from 1 July to 31 December 2010.

(Controller), introducing the report of the Secretary-General on estimates in respect of special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council (A/65/328 and Add.1 and Add.1/Corr.1 and 2 and Add.2 and Add.2/Corr.1 and Add.3 and Add.3/Corr.1 and Add.4 and 5), said that the budget proposals for special political missions for 2011 had once again been grouped into three thematic clusters (cluster I: special and personal envoys and special advisers of the Secretary-General (A/65/328/Add.1 and Corr.1 and 2); cluster II: sanctions monitoring teams, groups and panels (A/65/328/Add.2 and Corr.1); and cluster III: United Nations offices, peacebuilding support offices, integrated offices and commissions (A/65/328/Add.3 and Corr.1)).

Introducing the performance report on the budget of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) for the period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009 (A/64/586 and Corr.1), he said that the General Assembly had appropriated funding of $37,016,400 for the Mission and that expenditure had amounted to $31,005,000, leaving an unencumbered balance of $6,011,400, which represented a utilization rate of 83.8 per cent.

(Controller), introducing an addendum to section 34, Safety and security, of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 20102011 (A/64/6 (Sect. 34)/Add.1) and the report of the Secretary-General on revised estimates relating to the proposed programme budget and the budget for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda related to a strengthened and unified security management system for the United Nations (A/64/532), recalled that the Secretary-General had appointed an independent panel to establish the facts concerning the attack on the United Nations offices in Algiers on 11 December 2007 and to address strategic issues vital to the delivery and enhancement of staff security for United Nations operations around the world.

A public meeting was held on 12 July to hear the quarterly briefings pursuant to Security Council resolution 1905 (2009) by Mr. Abdul Basity Turky Saed, Head of the Committee of Financial Experts (COFE) of Iraq, and by the United Nations Controller, Mr. Jun Yamakazi, on the basis of their respective reports (S/2010/365 and S/2010/359).

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