Administrative and budgetary issues

6 December 1996

Press Release
GA/AB/3123

FIFTH COMMITTEE ALLOCATES $242 MILLION TO PEACE-KEEPING MISSIONS IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA FOR FIRST HALF OF 1997

19961206

The General Assembly would appropriate and apportion almost $242 million gross to maintain three peace-keeping missions in the former Yugoslavia for the first half of 1997, if it adopts three draft resolutions approved without a vote this morning by its Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary).

2 December 1996

Press Release
GA/AB/3121

29 November 1996

Press Release
GA/AB/3120*

FIFTH COMMITTEE HEARS EXPERT ANALYSIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON UNITED NATIONS PLACEMENT AND PROMOTION POLICIES

19961129 ASG for Human Resources Management Seeks Departments' Cooperation to End 'Back-Door' Recruitment

27 November 1996

Press Release
GA/AB/3119

25 November 1996

Press Release
GA/AB/3118

SYSTEM-WIDE 4.1 PER CENT PAY INCREASE FOR PROFESSIONAL AND HIGHER LEVEL STAFF PROPOSED BY ICSC IN FIFTH COMMITTEE

19961125 Committee Defers Action On Economic and Social Council Revised Estimates

21 November 1996

Press Release
GA/AB/3117

CUTTING OF 1,000 POSTS COULD CURTAIL UNITED NATIONS PROGRAMME DELIVERY, PRESIDENT OF STAFF UNION TELLS FIFTH COMMITTEE

19961121 Debate Continues on Financing of Peace-keeping Missions, Board of Auditors' Reports and Internal Oversight Office

19 November 1996

Press Release
GA/AB/3116

14 November 1996

Press Release
GA/AB/3114

ROLE OF UNCTAD AS FOCAL POINT FOR INTEGRATED TREATMENT OF DEVELOPMENT IN UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM STRESSED IN FIFTH COMMITTEE

19961114 Discussion of Proposed Medium-Term Plan Continues

14 November 1996

Press Release
GA/AB/3115

FIFTH COMMITTEE HEARS CALL FOR MECHANISM TO RECOVER STOLEN UN FUNDS

19961114

The Secretary-General should be authorized to create a mechanism, in cooperation with Member States, to retrieve more than $3 million stolen from the United Nations through fraud in 1994-1995 or to confiscate properties bought with that money, the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) was told this afternoon.

13 November 1996

Press Release
GA/AB/3113

FIFTH COMMITTEE IS TOLD TO QUESTION MOTIVES OF COUNTRIES WHICH, DESPITE DUES ARREARS, LEND PERSONNEL TO UNITED NATIONS

19961113 China Says Developing Countries at Disadvantage; United States Responds that Objective Is Just to Help Peace-keeping Missions