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ANNEX II
Administrative and programme budget implications of decision 2/109
on Effects of economic reform policies and foreign debt on the full
enjoyment of all human rights
1.
Under the terms of draft decision A/HRC/2/L.17, the Human Rights Council would
decide to request the High Commissioner for Human Rights to convene an Expert Consultation
to discuss the proposed draft general guidelines and to invite the international financial
institutions, notably the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, as well as regional
development banks, relevant United Nations agencies and national experts and stakeholders to
contribute to the consultations.
2.
Should the draft decision be adopted by the Human Rights Council, total full costs
of conference servicing for a three-day expert consultation in Geneva, travel, and daily
subsistence allowance for seven experts and related consultancy would amount to US$ 151,000
in the 2006-2007 biennium as follows:
Section 2, General Assembly and Economic and Social Council
affairs and conference management
Section 23 Human Rights (travel, daily subsistence allowance and
consultancy requirements)
Section 28E, Administration Geneva (conference servicing costs)
Total
United States dollars
80 700
68 500
1 800
151 000
3.
Provisions have not been included in the programme budget for the 2006-2007 biennium
under the above-mentioned sections to implement the activities in response to the decision.
Additional resources will therefore be required.
4.
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.
5.
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 sections 2, General Assembly and Economic and Social Council affairs and
conference management, section 23, Human Rights, and section 28E, Administration, Geneva, of
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