2 March 2009

General AssemblyGA/AB/3889

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Sixty-third General Assembly

Fifth Committee

29^th Meeting (AM)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fifty-sixth General Assembly                                GA/AB/3466

Fifth Committee                                             19 October 2001

14^th Meeting (AM)

 

 

SPEAKERS STRESS NEED FOR AFRICA-RELATED DEVELOPMENT PROVISIONS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fifty-sixth General Assembly                                  GA/AB/3467

Fifth Committee                                             22 October 2001

15^th Meeting (AM)

 

 

PERCEIVED SHORTCOMINGS IN UNHCR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

25/09/2002

Press Release GA/AB/3515

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee

1st Meeting (AM)

24/10/2002

Press Release GA/AB/3528

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee

15^th Meeting (AM)

FIFTH COMMITTEE APPROVES 11 TEXTS CONCERNING WORK

OF UNITED NATIONS OVERSIGHT BODIES

20/07/2001

Press Release GA/AB/3450

Resumed Fifty-fifth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

69^th Meeting* (AM)

ASSEMBLY’S BUDGET COMMITTEE, REVIEWING ARREARS IN UN DUES PAYMENTS,

GRANTS VOTING RIGHTS TO BURUNDI, COMOROS, GEORGIA, MOLDOVA

Preparations in Next Year’s International Conference

Proposals to change the methodology to determine the scale of Member States’ assessments to the United Nations, concerns over the delay in implementing the Capital Master Plan and whether to make public reports of the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) dominated the discussions of the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today, as it opened its resumed session.

The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today weighed in on the Secretary-General’s proposal to restructure the pension schemes for incoming judges of three United Nations courts — a move that would save the Organization nearly $10 million in the next three decades.

As the United Nations top management official this afternoon presented the Secretary-General’s progress report on creating an accountability system within the Secretariat to the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary), some delegates criticized it for not giving enough evidence to support its claims of success.

Convening this morning to scrutinize proposals to better utilize resources for official United Nations air travel, delegates in the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) agreed that the Organization must do more to avoid “egregious examples of waste” in such areas as the daily subsistence allowance to United Nations staff travelling on official business and the use of frequent flyer miles.