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(f) A group of three rapporteurs, selected by drawing of lots among the members of the
Council and from different Regional Groups (the “troika”), will be formed to facilitate each
review, including the preparation of the report of the working group. OHCHR will provide the
necessary assistance and expertise to the rapporteurs;
(g) Interactive dialogue between the country under review and the Council will take
place in the working group. The rapporteurs may collate issues or questions to be transmitted to
the State under review to facilitate its preparation and focus the interactive dialogue, while
guaranteeing fairness and transparency.
4.
In order to implement the above-mentioned proposals, it is estimated that the following
additional resources will be required:
(a) Seventeen (17) new posts for OHCHR at the P-4 level to ensure the preparation of
the relevant documents to be submitted for the review of each country during the sessions of the
UPR working group and for support to the rapporteurs in their review and preparation of the
report of the country group as from 2007;
(b) Conference services requirements for six weeks of meetings of the UPR working
group starting from 2008;
(c) Information services requirements to provide for press, radio, television and
documentation coverage as well as webcasting.
5.
Total estimated resource requirements will amount to:
Section 2, General Assembly and Economic and Social
Council affairs and conference management
Section 23, Human rights
Section 27, Information Service
Section 28E, Administration, Geneva
Total
2006-2007
2008-2009
United States dollars
3 847 300
-
3 139 800
353 700
323 100
7 672 900
6.
Provisions have not been made in the proposed programme budget for the
biennium 2008-2009 for the above-mentioned activities, and as illustrated under paragraph 5
above. It does not appear that it will be possible to absorb the estimated additional requirements
within the provisions for the 2008-2009 biennium. Therefore, an additional appropriation by the
General Assembly will be required for the biennium 2008-2009. Although it is estimated that the
17 new P-4 posts will be required as from 2007, since it is expected that the General Assembly
will only approve the requirements at its sixty-second session and recruitment will take several
months, the workload will be met by use of temporary arrangements such as the use of vacant
posts.
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