A limited membership was best for the Committee, with open ended working groups.

RELATED TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL

RELATED TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL Organizational meeting

The Office strictly limits the number of staff travelling for this occasion.

Such limits may make it necessary periodically to redeploy individual staff members to related or new tasks, as is provided for under current personnel policy (for example, staff regulation 1.2).

The non removal element distinguishes between staff who receive a full household removal and those who receive a limited shipment of personal effects.

The need for rotation and placement of staff does in some limited cases result in staff members being assigned to posts that do not correspond to their personal grades.

Accommodation for United Nations staff in Baghdad remains limited.

The failure to find posts for competent staff members should therefore be attributed solely to the current budgetary constraints and not to the shortcomings of the individuals concerned.

UNRWA staff had been denied free movement in and out of the Gaza Strip for unspecified reasons, often for extended periods, without explanation.

a Staff temporarily placed against Professional posts subject to geographical distribution.

In line with the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations, some staff members are entitled to repatriation grants and related relocation costs upon their termination from the organization, based on the number of years of service.

Comments by the Philippines

This table includes staff on appointments subject to geographical distribution as well as staff with special language requirements and staff on appointments limited to service with a particular office, mission, fund or programme.

64. The view was expressed that duty stations away from Headquarters were less attractive to conference services staff because of the more limited career possibilities at those stations.

There is a limited of capacity (i.e. staff, skills and tools) for monitoring and evaluation of gender mainstreaming at the national level.

Work programme of the Open ended Working Group (2005 2006)

The Section handles all new enrolments and changes in policy as well as provides a minimal level of personal service to staff, virtually all of whom have at least some questions about their medical coverage at the start of their appointment with the United Nations.

The number of Ukrainian nationals was recently downsized to two by the Government because of the limited work available.

Medical staff affected by the restrictions included doctors, nurses, pharmacists, laboratory technicians, physiotherapists and X ray technicians, and a total of 288 staff days were lost.

The restrictions were primarily applicable to local staff, who comprised 99 per cent of all Agency staff in the West Bank and Gaza fields.

The Mission absorbed additional requirements which arose under common staff costs for departing staff who were either repatriated or reassigned to newly established missions, as well as for the conversion of 16 staff from appointments of limited duration to the 100 Series Staff Rules.

With limited staff, the afternoon clinics catered for approximately one third of the total medical consultations at Agency facilities at Gaza.

These individuals are exempt from the requirement to find work, exempt from time limits and receive higher levels of assistance.

Some 43 per cent of the staff members currently serving at that duty station were above the maximum admissible expenditure level.

4. It was a matter of some satisfaction that we managed to complete the work of the Ad Hoc Open ended Working Group on an Agenda for Development and the Open ended High Level Working Group on the Strengthening of the United Nations System.

the Montreal Protocol on Substances that

Meetings of the Open ended Working Group

The Advisory Committee notes that this definition would include not only all 200 series project personnel, but also all staff recruited under the 300 series of the Staff Rules on a short term appointment or an appointment of limited duration, as well as all staff recruited under the 100 series of the Staff Rules outside the competitive examination system or without a review by the appointment and promotion bodies. A 53 691

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights makes every effort to limit staff travel to New York.

inter sessional Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights to elaborate a draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples

The survey was limited to a sample of staff and 31 completed replies were returned to the Board.

25. The staff of the Office shall enjoy unrestricted freedom of movement throughout the territory of Colombia.

4. Comparison between Professional and higher level staff with appointments subject to geographical distribution and all Professional and higher level staff in the United Nations Secretariat, by gender and grade, as at 30 June 1998

Modus operandi of the Commission (Samuel Betah, speaker, in collaboration with André Chan Chim Yuk)

The limited freedom of movement for United Nations staff in western Darfur has affected the delivery of humanitarian assistance.

As to workload indicators, the Commission considered that it was important to bear in mind that since these related to Professional staff they were of limited value.

Access to the United Nations complex during the High level Plenary Meeting will be restricted to delegates and their staff staff members of the United Nations Secretariat, funds and programmes and agencies accredited media and affiliates working in the Secretariat, who are wearing a United Nations grounds pass.

Given the limited number of budgeted posts and the workload, general temporary assistance has also been provided to the Unit.

Further, in the view of that member to honour the acquired rights of staff the payments could continue at the enhanced rate for an indefinite period.

It should continue to be an open ended working group that would meet on an as needed basis for specific purposes.

The appointment of such staff and consultants shall be limited to service with the United Nations International Drug Control Programme.

UNRWA remained limited in the number of vehicles it could use to transport international staff across the Allenby Bridge, and in addition was required to provide a 24 hour pre notification for the crossings of most international staff members.

9. Instituting time limits need not affect the duration of staff contracts.

the open ended inter sessional Working Group of the Commission on