A/HRC/5/21 page 59 (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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