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4.
With regard to the requirements for the 2008-2009 biennium, they are indicative and will
be considered in the context of the proposed programme budget for the 2008-2009 biennium.
5.
It will be recalled that under the procedures established by the General Assembly in its
resolutions 41/213 of 19 December 1986 and 42/211 of 21 December 1987, a contingency fund
is established for each biennium to accommodate additional expenditures derived from
legislative mandates not provided for in the programme budget. Under this procedure, if
additional expenditures are proposed that exceed the resources available from the contingency
fund, the activities concerned can be implemented only through the redeployment of resources
from low-priority areas or the modification of existing activities. Otherwise, such additional
activities must be deferred to a later biennium.
6.
The additional provisions cannot be met from the contingency fund as other activities in
the 2006-2007 biennium charged against the fund will have exhausted the fund during the main
part of the sixty-first session of the General Assembly. It is not possible at this stage to identify
activities under section 2, General Assembly and Economic and Social Council affairs and
conference management, section 23, Human rights, and section 28E, Administration, Geneva, of
the programme budget for the 2006-2007 biennium that could be curtailed, deferred, terminated
or modified in order to meet the additional requirements of US$ 441,600, although preliminary
review leads the Secretariat to assume that some absorption of the estimated requirements is
possible. The Secretariat will seek to identify areas from which resources can be redeployed to
meet the requirements arising from the draft resolution in the 2006-2007 biennium. At the time
the General Assembly reviews at its sixty-first session the question of the revised estimates
resulting from decisions of the Human Rights Council it is anticipated that the Secretariat would
be in a position to inform the General Assembly on how to meet the additional requirements.
3/103. Global efforts for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination,
xenophobia and related intolerance and the comprehensive follow-up
to the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination,
Xenophobia and Related Intolerance and the effective implementation
of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
1.
Under the terms of subparagraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (f), (i) and (j) of draft decision
A/HRC/3/L.3, the Human Rights Council would decide:
(i)
“To heed the decision and instruction of the 2001 World Conference against
Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance by
establishing an Ad-Hoc Committee of the Human Rights Council on the
Elaboration of Complementary Standards with the mandate to elaborate, as a
matter of priority and necessity, complementary standards in the form of either a
convention or additional protocol(s) to the International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, filling the existing gaps in the
Convention and also providing new normative standards aimed at combating all
forms of contemporary racism, including incitement to racial and religious hatred;
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