Report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the audit of the management of special political missions by the Department of Political Affairs(General Assembly resolution 60/255, sect. I, para. 14).
The Special Political and Decolonization Committee(Fourth Committee) will hold its 11th meeting on Tuesday, 21 October 2014, at 15:00, in Conference Room 4, to consider agenda item 54(Questions relating to information).
In December 2011, the General Assembly, in its resolution 66/248 A, appropriated the programme budget for the biennium 2012-2013 for special political missions, including for the United Nations Representative to the Geneva International Discussions.
In connection with item 54 of the draft agenda(Comprehensive review of special political missions), the General Committee decided to recommend its inclusion under heading B(Maintenance of international peace and security).
The Secretary-General proposes that the requirements($24,600) be accommodated from within the overall appropriation for special political missions for the biennium 2010-2011 and to report to the General Assembly in the context of the second performance report.
Those resources would provide for 25 special political missions, including requirements for the liquidation of 2 missions, the mandates of which are not expected to be extended(see paras. 39 and 45 below).
The Secretary-General indicates that operational costs across special political missions have decreased from $303.2 million in 2012 to $239.3 million in 2013, and to $219.6 million in 2014(A/68/327, para. 28).
In his report on the budget estimates for 2014 in respect of special political missions, approximately $2 million was provided for the relocation of the Executive Directorate(A/68/327/Add.2, paras. 205 and 207).
Before the inclusion of special political missions, the preliminary estimates amounted to $4,227.8 million, an increase of $158.2 million over the approved appropriations for the biennium 2012-2013 related primarily to the inclusion of deferred post-related recosting.
While the bulk of the larger field-based special political missions is supported by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the Executive Office of the Department of Political Affairs carries a heavy responsibility in supporting the remaining missions.
The Special Political and Decolonization Committee(Fourth Committee) will begin its consideration of the cluster of items on decolonization on Monday, 4 October 2010, at 3 p.m. in Conference Room 1(NLB).
Ms. Taylor Roberts(Jamaica), speaking on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, said that the Group attached great importance to the work of special political missions and to the Secretary-General's good offices.
Notes that following this decision, the utilization of the provisions for special political missions amounts to $66,074,600, and that an unallocated balance of $24,312,600 remains against the provision of $90,387,200 for special political missions.".
In the view of the Advisory Committee, the information on the development of a methodology for support arrangements to special political missions contained in the report of the Secretary-General(see A/62/512, paras. 16- 20) is unclear.
(c) The means available for reviewing the activities, key benchmarks and overall performance of special political missions, including mechanisms or benchmarks for recommending the closure of special political missions(paras. 4659);
The resources proposed for 2010 for the 10 special political missions under cluster III amount to $161,450,100, which represents 26.9 per cent of the total resources requested for the special political missions(A/64/349 and Add.3).
B The amount of $1,469,000 is to be absorbed, as decided by the General Assembly in resolution 65/288, within the overall appropriation for special political missions for the biennium 2010-2011, and reported in the context of the second performance report.
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