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(c) Requested the Secretary-General to continue to ensure that the Working Group
received all the assistance and resources it required to perform its functions, including supporting
the principles of the Declaration, carrying out and following up on missions and holding sessions
in countries that were prepared to receive it;
(d) Also requested the Secretary-General to provide the resources needed to update the
database on cases of enforced disappearances.
23. Pursuant to the adoption of the resolution by the Council, a total amount of $264,500
per annum or $529,000 per biennium will be required to implement the activities, arising from
the terms of the resolution as follows:
(a) Travel of the Working Group for meetings in Geneva and for two field missions
($191,400 per annum);
(b) Travel of the Chairman of the Working Group to present a report to the Council and
participate in the annual meeting of special procedures ($17,300 per annum);
(c) Travel of staff to accompany the Working Group during field missions ($24,600
per annum);
(d) Local transportation, security, communication and other miscellaneous expenses
during field missions ($7,200 per annum);
(e) Staff costs at the general service (other level) for three months to update the database
on cases of enforced disappearances ($24,000 per annum).
24. The requirements to implement the activities for the mandate of the Working Group
have been included under section 23, Human Rights, of the programme budget for
the biennium 2008-2009. Since the period for renewal of the mandate extends into the
biennium 2010-2011, the requirements for that period will be considered in the context of the
preparation of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2010-2011. No additional
appropriations will be required as a result of the adoption of the resolution.
25. With regard to paragraph 10 (a), attention is drawn to the provisions of section VI of
General Assembly resolution 45/248 B, and subsequent resolutions, the most recent of which is
resolution 62/236, in which the Assembly reaffirmed that the Fifth Committee was the
appropriate Main Committee of the Assembly entrusted with responsibilities for administrative
and budgetary matters and reaffirmed the role of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and
Budgetary Questions.
7/13. Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children,
child prostitution and child pornography
26.
Under the terms of paragraphs 2, 2 (i), and 5 of its resolution 7/13, the Council:
(a)
Decided to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur for a period of three years;
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