Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/60/608 and Corr.1)]
60/246.	Questions relating to the proposed programme budget 
for the biennium 2006–2007
	The General Assembly,
	Recalling its resolutions 41/213 of 19 December 1986, 42/211 of 21 December 1987, 45/248 B, section VI, of 21 December 1990, 56/253 of 24 December 2001, 58/269 and 58/270 of 23 December 2003 and 59/275, 59/276 and 59/278 of 23 December 2004, and paragraphs 161 to 167 of its resolution 60/1 of 16 September 2005,
	Reaffirming the respective mandates of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and the Committee for Programme and Coordination in the consideration of the proposed programme budget,
	Having considered the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006–2007, as well as other reports and statements of programme budget implications submitted by the Secretary-General and the relevant reports of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and the Committee for Programme and Coordination thereon,
	1.	Reaffirms that the Fifth Committee is the appropriate Main Committee of the General Assembly entrusted with responsibilities for administrative and budgetary matters;
	2.	Also reaffirms rule 153 of its rules of procedure;
	3.	Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination as contained in paragraphs 61, 67 and 106 to 122 of its report;_Ref123622976 \h  \* MERGEFORMAT 5
	4.	Notes that consideration of the programme narratives contained in the revised estimates will follow consideration thereof by the Committee for Programme and Coordination no later than September 2006;
	5.	Endorses, subject to the provisions of the present resolution and without establishing a precedent, the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions concerning posts and non-post resources as contained in chapter II of its first report on the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006–2007, and the resource recommendations contained in its reports on revised estimates, including those on the 2005 World Summit Outcome, and on statements of programme budget implications relating to decisions taken by the Main Committees of the General Assembly;
	6.	Decides that the staffing table for the biennium 2006–2007 shall be as set out in the annex to the present resolution;
	7.	Also decides to extend for the biennium 2006–2007 the experiment approved under paragraph 14 of General Assembly resolution 58/270, and requests the Secretary-General to report to the Assembly at its sixty-first session on the implementation of the experiment;
	8.	Requests the Secretary-General to utilize the arrangements referred to in paragraph 7 above to identify available posts to provide for the new post requests referred to in paragraphs IV.2, IV.28 and IV.29 of the first report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions on the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006–2007,7 as well as in paragraph 5 of the second report of the Advisory Committee on the proposed programme budget; 
	9.	Recalls its decision in paragraph 3 (b) of its resolution 59/313 of 12 September 2005 entitled “A strengthened and revitalized General Assembly”, and endorses the proposals contained in paragraph 3 of the statement of the Secretary-General on the programme budget implications;
	10.	Decides to provide resources at the level sought by the Secretary-General in his statement of programme budget implications arising in respect of the draft resolution relating to Rwanda outreach and the amendment thereto;
	11.	Recognizes the need for limited discretion in budgetary implementation for the Secretary-General within defined parameters to be agreed by the General Assembly along with clear accountability mechanisms to the Assembly for its use, on the basis of recommendations of the Secretary-General to be provided to the Assembly at its resumed sixtieth session;
	12.	Requests the Secretary-General to achieve further efficiencies in non-post resources, and therefore decides to adjust non-post provisions covered in paragraph 5 above by a pro rata reduction of 1.75 per cent to be applied to all sections of the programme budget;
	13.	Recognizes that amendments to the provisions of the present resolution would stem from any decisions by the General Assembly in accordance with established procedures in response to proposals of the Secretary-General relating to paragraphs 161 to 167 of its resolution 60/1;
	14.	Decides that the Development Account shall be recosted for the biennium 2006–2007, and in this context requests the Secretary-General to pursue the relevant proposals contained in his report and to provide to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session recommendations on how additional resources in the region of 5 million dollars could be added to the Development Account.

69th plenary meeting
23 December 2005


Annex
Staffing table for the biennium 2006–2007
Category 2006–2007
Professional and above 
 Deputy Secretary-General 1
Under-Secretary-General 29
Assistant Secretary-General 21
D2 90
D1 257
P5 745
P4/3 2 501
P2/1 491
Subtotal 4 135
General Service
 Principal level 278
Other level 2 710
Subtotal 2 988
Other
 Security Service 306
Local level 1 849
Field Service 183
Trades and Crafts 176
Subtotal 2 514
Total 9 637

 A/60/6 (Introduction), (Sects. 1–35), (Sect. 13)/Add.1, (Income sects. 1–3) and A/60/6/Corr.1–3.
 A/59/397, A/60/303, A/60/363 and A/60/537.
 A/60/360, A/60/396, A/60/532, A/C.5/60/12, A/C.5/60/14, A/C.5/60/15, A/C.5/60/16, A/C.5/60/17, A/C.5/60/20, A/C.5/60/21, A/C.5/60/23, A/C.5/60/24 and A/C.5/60/SR.35.
 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (A/60/7 and Corr.1); A/60/7/Add.1–5, 13 and Corr.1 and 2, Add.14, 15, 16 and Corr.1, Add.17–21, 22 and Corr.1 and Add.26–30; and A/C.5/60/SR.35.
 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 16 and corrigendum (A/60/16 and Corr.1).
 A/60/537.
 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (A/60/7 and Corr.1).
 A/60/7/Add.5, 13 and Corr.1 and 2, Add.15, 17–20 and 25–32.
 A/60/7/Add.1.
 A/C.5/59/35/Rev.1.
 A/C.5/60/20.
 A/59/397.

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