Capital Master Plan

A/RES/60/282View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda items 124 Proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006-2007 and 121c Capital master plan, published in 2006.

What other versions does this mandate have?

11 versions · 2005–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/232

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/232	Capital Master Plan	619	72%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/246	Capital Master Plan	690	33%Compare
2016	A/RES/70/239	Capital master plan	1,004	17%Compare
2011	A/RES/65/269	Capital master plan	3,210	31%Compare
2010	A/RES/64/228	Capital master plan	3,508	31%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

6 reports · 2006–2016

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2016	A/71/309	Fourteenth annual progress report on the implementation of the Capital Master Plan report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/70/239
2012	A/67/350	Tenth annual progress report on the implementation of the capital master plan report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/65/269
2011	A/66/527	Ninth annual progress report on the implementation of the capital master plan report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/65/269
2011	A/66/527/Add.1	Proposals for financing associated costs for 2012 from within the approved budget for the capital master plan report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/65/269
2006	A/61/300	Impact of the capital master plan on meetings to be held at Headquarters during its implementation report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/60/282

What’s in this document?

20 operative paragraphs

Reiterates its serious concern about the hazards, risks and deficiencies of the current conditions of the United Nations Headquarters Building, which endanger the safety, health and well-being of staff, visitors, tourists and delegations, including high-level delegations;

Takes note of the secondError: Reference source not found and thirdError: Reference source not found annual progress reports of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the capital master plan, the reports of the Secretary-General on cooperation with the City and State of New York related to the capital master plan,Error: Reference source not found on the status of possible funding arrangements for the capital master planError: Reference source not found and on the business analysis of the possibility of constructing a new permanent building on the North Lawn;Error: Reference source not found

Decides to revert, at the main part of its sixty-first session, to the consideration of the reports of the Secretary-General on viable options for ensuring sufficient parking space at United Nations HeadquartersError: Reference source not found and on plans for three additional conference rooms and viable solutions for allowing natural light into the rooms,Error: Reference source not found the note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Board of Auditors on the capital master plan for the biennium ended 31 December 2003,Error: Reference source not found the report of the Board of Auditors for the year ended 31 December 2004Error: Reference source not found and the reports of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the capital master plan for the period from August 2003 through July 2004Error: Reference source not found and the period from August 2004 through July 2005;Error: Reference source not found

Notes the benefits, including economic ones, accruing to host countries from the presence of the United Nations, and the costs incurred;

Stresses the special role of the host country Government with regard to support for United Nations Headquarters in New York;

Recalls the current practices of host Governments with regard to support for United Nations headquarters and United Nations bodies located in their territories;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that no action is taken that would preclude any decision that the General Assembly might take on the construction of a new permanent building on the North Lawn at some future date;

Approves, effective 1 July 2006, the recommended strategy for the implementation of the capital master plan, strategy IV (phased approach), contained in the third annual progress report of the Secretary-General,Error: Reference source not found including the phasing, swing space and cost, and decides to review the updated projected costs at the main part of its sixty-first session;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit proposals to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session, through the Committee on Conferences, on the possible adjustment of meeting schedules, including a change in venue of meetings for the United Nations intergovernmental organs that normally meet at Headquarters for the period of the implementation of the capital master plan;

Stresses the need for a long-term strategy for office accommodation at Headquarters;

Requests that a comprehensive study on the feasibility of the proposed construction of a building on the North Lawn, including a number of other factors that have not been included in the business analysis contained in the report of the Secretary-General,Error: Reference source not found on security, architectural, and host city and community issues, be included in the context of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2008–2009;

Requests the Secretary-General, considering the need to continue to explore ways to increase procurement opportunities for vendors from developing countries and countries with economies in transition, to take the provisions of its resolutions 54/14 of 29 October 1999, 55/247 of 12 April 2001 and 59/288 of 13 April 2005 on procurement reform fully into consideration in the implementation of the capital master plan;

Notes that the Office of the Capital Master Plan will provide resources to the Office of Internal Oversight Services in order to ensure an appropriate construction audit for the capital master plan, and requests the Secretary-General to report on the findings thereon in the context of the relevant reports, including the annual report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services throughout the phases of the project;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that procurement processes related to the capital master plan are conducted in a transparent manner and in full compliance with relevant General Assembly resolutions;

Welcomes the establishment of the capital master plan website;

Requests the Secretary-General ensure that financial disclosure statements are filed by staff involved with the capital master plan in accordance with relevant General Assembly resolutions;

Recognizes that the cash payment option, based on a one-time assessment or multi-year special assessments, would be the simplest and the most cost-effective approach for meeting the cost of the capital master plan;

Decides to revert, at the main part of its sixty-first session, to the issue of the funding plan for the capital master plan, including the credit facilities or instruments referred to in paragraph 35 of the third annual progress report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the capital master plan¹⁵ as well as the feasibility of a one-time upfront payment option, and in this context requests the Secretary-General to propose, inter alia, to the General Assembly, also at the main part of its sixty-first session, a mechanism that would ensure that Member States that pay their assessed contributions for the capital master plan in full and on time will not bear any financial liabilities and/or other obligations derived from the possible utilization of those credit facilities or instruments;

¹⁵A/60/550 and Corr.1 and 2.

Also decides to convert the existing commitment authority of 77 million United States dollars into an appropriation, with assessment on Member States in 2006 on the basis of the regular budget scale of assessments in effect for the year;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session on the implementation of the provisions of the present resolution, in his fourth annual progress report on the implementation of the capital master plan.

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