Review of the Financing of the Administrative Costs of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

A/RES/37/238View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 103 Programme budget for the biennium 1982-1983, published in 1983.

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Administration Budget Financing Staffing

What’s in this document?

3 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;

Endorses the opinion of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions that decisions on the proposals of the Secretary-General concerning the transfer of .posts should be taken on a case-by-case basis in the context of his proposed programme budgets for the 1984- 1985 and subsequent bienniums;

Concurs in the other comments and observations of the Advisory Committee in its report.

Article I

TRAVEL EXPENSES

The United Nations shall pay, subject to the conditions of these regulations, the travel expenses of the members of the International Court of Justice necessarily incurred on duly authorized journeys. The following shall be deemed to be duly authorized journeys:

(a) For members of the Court and one close relative residing with them to attend sessions at the seat of the Court;

(b) For members of the Court and one close relative residing with them to attend a session which is held at a place other than the seat of the Court;

(c) In the case of the President of the Court, who by virtue of Article 22 of the Statute must reside at the seat of the Court:

(i) At the time of his election to the Presidency, a journey from his home to the seat of the Court in connection with any transfer of residence;

(ii) In the calendar year following that of his election to the Presidency,

a return journey from the seat of the Court to his home at the time of that election;

(iii) At the end of his term of office as President, a journey from the seat of the Court to his home at the time of his election to that office, or to any other place provided that the cost of the journey is no greater.

Where the spouse and/or dependent children of the President reside with him at the seat of the Court, the United Nations shall reimburse their travel expenses for journeys undertaken in conjunction with (i), (ii) and (iii) above;

(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraph (a) above, in the case of any member of the Court other than the President who takes up residence at the seat of the Court in compliance with Article 23 of its Statute, solely:

(i) A journey from his home, at the time of appointment, to the seat of the Court, in connection with the transfer of his residence;

(ii) A return journey every second calendar year after the year of appointment from the seat of the Court to his home at the time of appointment;

(iii) A journey upon termination of appointment from the seat of the Court to his home at the time of appointment, or to any other place provided that the cost of the journey is not greater than the cost of the journey to his home at the time of appointment. Where the spouse and/or dependent children of the member of the Court 112 A/C.5/37/63. reside with him at the seat of the Court, the United Nations shall reimburse 113 Official Records of the General Assembly. Thirty-seventh Session. the travel expenses for journeys undertaken in conjunction with (i). (ii) Supplement No. 7A (A/3711/Add. l-24). document A/3711/Add.24. and (iii) of the present subparagraph; 11• AJC.5/37/1 and Corr. l. 115 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-seventh Session,

(iv) Any journey within the meaning of subparagraph (b) above; Supplement No. 7A (A/3711/Add. 1-24), document A/3717/Add.3.

(e) Journeys of any ad hoe judge chosen under Article 31 of the Statute 116 lbid., Supplement No. 44 (A/37/44). of the Court and one close relative residing with him, in accordance with

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