B. The staff and resources of the General Assembly Affairs Division should be strengthened

Moreover, the Office of Legal Affairs was recruiting staff to fill the three vacant posts.

Attention has been drawn to shortage of staff and equipment of the Ministry of Women s Affairs.

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The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has seconded a staff member to the liaison office.

At the end of the expected accomplishment, add related to disciplinary affairs, claims and appeals of the staff .

In the Department of Humanitarian Affairs and the Office of Legal Affairs consultants were appointed to handle work of a regular nature that should be assigned to regular staff.

In addition, under Conference Affairs Services, USD 418,070 has been included to cover the hiring of temporary staff during sessions.

The printed journals and the CD ROM are available in the Division for use by Division and other staff of the Office of Legal Affairs and by other United Nations staff.

On 1 February, Patrick Bemba, a member of the departmental staff of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, was robbed and kidnapped.

22. Decides that the Decolonization Unit in the Department of Political Affairs shall comprise one Principal Officer at the D 1 level, one Senior Political Affairs Officer at the P 5 level, one Political Affairs Officer at the P 4 level and two General Service staff

The Office is headed by a staff member at the D 2 level, supported by two Political Affairs Officers (one P 5 and one P 4) and two Field Service staff (one finance administrative assistant and one secretary). Salaries of international staff are estimated at 969,000 and common staff costs at 362,200.

26. Lastly, the Civil Affairs Unit, the Military Police Staff Officers Unit and the Technical Services Section are now known as the Political and Humanitarian Affairs Unit, the Military Support Unit and the Integrated Support Services Section, respectively.

77. Eight additional posts are requested one P 5 (Chief, Staff Operations), six P 4 (Information Officer, Operations Officer, Logistics Officer, Civilian Police Officer, Humanitarian Affairs Officer and Engineering Officer) and one P 3 (Operations Staff Officer).

The Office is headed by a staff member at the D 2 level, supported by one Senior Political Affairs Officer (D 1), two Political Affairs Officers (P 4), one Administrative Officer (P 4) and a Finance Officer (P 2).

UNMIL civil affairs officers have received civic and voter education training and are complementing the efforts of the UNMIL Electoral Division staff in the counties.

That audience was followed by talks with directors or section heads of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Justice and Public Security, assisted by their staff.

He would like to convey his gratitude especially to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and his staff who helped make this visit constructive and fruitful.

(b) Appropriate 15,726,000 under section 3, Political affairs, and 1,862,500 under section 34, Staff assessment, to be offset by a corresponding amount under income section 1, Income from staff assessment, of the programme budget for the biennium 2004 2005.

38. Lack of funds has severely limited the ability of the Department of Political Affairs to send the staff of its regional divisions on assessment missions.

The Legal Adviser also requested the assistance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in obtaining the staff member apos s release, asking to be provided with the reasons for the arrest and for UNIFIL to have access to the staff member.

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Further, I should like to extend my delegation's sincere gratitude to your predecessor, Ambassador De Alba of Mexico, and express appreciation to the Under Secretary General for Disarmament Affairs and the staff of the Department for Disarmament Affairs for their tireless efforts.

The Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Department of Political Affairs have agreed to provide capacity building support through a staff exchange programme with African regional organizations.

The Office for Outer Space Affairs and, in particular, the Expert on Space Applications and her staff will carry out the activities described in the present report.

The Office for Outer Space Affairs, and in particular the Expert on Space Applications and his staff, will carry out the activities described in the present report.

A staff member from ACTIONAID has been seconded for two years to work as Non governmental Organizations Affairs Officer at the European office of UNDP in Geneva.

The Office for Outer Space Affairs, and in particular the Expert on Space Applications and his staff, will carry out the activities described in the present report.

The Commission renewed its expressions of appreciation to the staff of the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, as well as to the interpreters, translators and other staff, for the assistance and services provided during its current session.

Whether the proposed DMISCO is hosted by a Member State or located within the Office for Outer Space Affairs, the United Nations contribution to it should be utilized to cover the cost of three staff members (two Professional and one General Service staff).

In most cases, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to the Agency's requests for official information and documents concerning its detained staff members, although some information was provided with respect to pending indictments and convictions of some of the staff members.

Consequently, and in the light of this requirement, I strongly believe that, despite the well known situation of the current staff reduction exercise, the General Assembly Affairs Division should be substantially strengthened and, at any rate, should not suffer any reduction in staff.

Staff of the internal affairs office set up in 2003 have completed their one year training and will begin to formally manage complaints against police officers in 2005.

The Advisory Committee believed that the heavy workload in the Office of Legal Affairs actually warranted additional staff it was therefore curious that a reduction was being proposed.

In this connection, the Chief of Staff for Political Affairs of the Armed Forces had publicly stated that the incident was indeed regrettable and should never have happened.

First, the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs claims to have paid relief to staff members of its embassies in Kuwait and Baghdad following their evacuation from those countries.

(a) The establishment of an Office of Political Affairs with a total of five staff (two P 5 posts, one P 3 post and two General Service posts)

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24. In paragraph 2B.2 of his report (A 52 303), the Secretary General proposed that the Department of Disarmament Affairs be headed by an Under Secretary General. The Advisory Committee has no objection to this proposal. The Committee notes from paragraph 2B.3 of the report the proposed transfer of staff and non staff resources from the Department of Political Affairs to the new Department.

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A draft of the guidelines for ethical conduct and a bulletin governing rules on the conduct of staff have been transmitted to the Office of Legal Affairs for review.

45. Gender mainstreaming and gender issues in the workplace were the focus of a series of workshops in May 1998 for 168 staff of the Department of Political Affairs.

In addition, eight additional posts are requested for the Rapidly Deployable Mission Headquarters one P 5 (Chief of Staff Operations), six P 4 (Information Officer, Operations Officer, Logistics Officer, Civilian Police Officer, Humanitarian Affairs Officer and Engineering Officer) and one P 3 (Operations Staff Officer).