The Department provides the Office with a shortlist of candidates and the Office provides recommendations the final decision is that of the Department.

The selection panel for the Commission screened 150 candidates nominated by the Liberian public and provided a shortlist of names to Chairman Bryant on 23 September.

46. With the same objective, one could consider the establishment of a tripartite appointment board (Commission organizations staff) to make recommendations, through a shortlist, for appointments to senior positions.

The committee would ensure that there were at least three candidates for each vacancy on the Commission, and would draw up a shortlist based on a review of the core competencies required.

The Commission considered that the Chairman, at his discretion, could form a consultative group to locate and pre screen candidates and or make proposals to him through a shortlist for appointment to senior posts.

The Special Rapporteur is concerned to note that, in the absence of a Supreme Court, which is responsible for proposing a shortlist of candidates, it is impossible to appoint the members of the Constitutional Court.

This situation came about because all the members of the Constitutional Court were dismissed and it is legally impossible to set up a new Court until the Supreme Court, which is responsible for submitting a shortlist of candidates, is appointed.

The events of the past few months are the consequences of shortsightedly seeking to impose one s will while ignoring the interests of one s partners. A shortlist of such faits accomplis would include NATO enlargement, the war in Yugoslavia (particularly Kosovo), missile defense plans, Iraq, Libya, and Syria.

Through the Nucleus applications, programme managers in the field could have the facility to access the Nucleus roster search tool and identify a shortlist of pre screened and technically cleared candidates for further review at the mission level and to select candidates for the forecasted vacancies.