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External sources (not reviewed)

The President focused especially on problems that might impact the efficiency of proceedings, such as delays in translations and imbalanced workload distribution between ad litem and permanent judges.

The funds should not be taken from the Participation Programme as its present allocation was already insufficient to meet current needs.

As a result, goods carried by road often have to be trans-shipped at border areas or loading points along a designated route.

That amount would provide for salaries and common staff costs for the continuation of three positions (one General Service (Other level) and two General Service (Local level)) and the creation of one P-3 level position to provide substantive and administrative support to the members of the Group ($198,200); charges pertaining to two Security Officers to provide security services and escort to the experts ($70,300); fees ($1,104,300) and official travel ($588,400) of the eight members of the Group; official travel of staff ($58,300); and other operational and logistical support requirements, such as rental of office space, rental of vehicles, communications, information technology equipment and maintenance, and miscellaneous supplies and services ($215,000).

[...] [...] standards might mislead consumers.

In view of the strict time schedule and the associated costs attached to any delay in the schedule of the capital master plan, the Secretary-General proposed to lease a commercial data centre facility, starting on 1 July 2009, and to engage the services of the International Computing Centre to install new information and communications technology (ICT) equipment in this readyto-use facility, migrate all systems to the new secondary data centre and manage some of the operations of the new secondary data centre (see A/63/743).

The provision would provide for specialized expertise not available in the Organization, outside the scope of the systems integration contract, in the area of change management, in technical areas, including mobile technology, report design and implementation, data warehousing and business intelligence, and in functional areas, including travel, central services, field operations and logistics, payroll, budgeting and planning, as well as management consultants to cross-check the project management services provided by the main contractor/systems integrator.

International Pen was also concerned about the existence of “blasphemy” laws, under which a number of writers and publishers had been charged and imprisoned and sentenced [...] [...]

In view of the complexity of the functions related to the occupational groups, the magnitude of the rosters, the levels of interaction with partners in the Organization and the need to mitigate the margin of error and the level of risk for the Organization, in particular, implications for the safety and security of staff and management of high-cost equipment, the scope of the function requires personnel at the P-4 level.

[...] [...] account for delays in certain cases [...]

With regard to the possible funding of future cluster consultations, participants felt that this should be a charge against the regular budget and that specific provisions should be included among the indirect costs for each cluster office.