Estimates in Respect of Special Political Missions, Good Offices and Other Political Initiatives Authorized by the General Assembly And/Or the Security Council

A/RES/68/280View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 134 Proposed programme budget for the biennium 2014-2015, published in 2014.

What other versions does this mandate have?

8 versions · 2004–2019

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/73/306

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2019	A/RES/73/306	Estimates in respect of special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council	317	24%Compare
2014	A/RES/68/280	Estimates in respect of special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council	645	30%Compare
2013	A/RES/67/269	Estimates in respect of special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council	464	33%Compare
2011	A/RES/65/288	Estimates in respect of special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council	339	36%Compare
2009	A/RES/63/283	Estimates in respect of special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council	346	39%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2004

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2004	A/58/886	Estimates in respect of special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives, authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/58/294

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Financial Implications Financial Resources Good Offices Programme Budgeting Resources Allocation Special Missions

What’s in this document?

14 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the reports of the Secretary-General;Error: Reference source not found

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the reports of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,Error: Reference source not found subject to the provisions of the present resolution;

Requests the Secretary-General to strictly abide by all relevant General Assembly resolutions and related internal guidance on the standard of accommodation for air travel in the preparation of future budgets;

Takes note of paragraphs 12 and 13 of the report of the Advisory Committee;⁴

⁴A/68/7/Add.26.

Recalls paragraph 5 of the report of the Advisory Committee,Error: Reference source not found and notes that the guard unit of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia will provide “inner-ring” static protection within Mogadishu International Airport and that the associated costs are included in the resources for the Mission;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide to the General Assembly for consideration at its sixty-ninth session detailed information on support requirements for the Mission provided by the United Nations Support Office for the African Union Mission in Somalia;

Decides to adjust the resource requirements for military and police personnel relating to the guard unit to reflect the delayed deployment of personnel;

Takes note of paragraph 9 of the report of the Advisory Committee,⁵ and decides to apply a vacancy rate of 25 per cent for the period from May to December 2014 in respect of the additional posts in the Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Yemen;

⁵A/68/7/Add.27.

Encourages close collaboration between the security and close protection operations of the Office of the Special Adviser and the Panel of Experts on Yemen, in order to avoid, to the extent possible, any duplication;

Recalls paragraph 14 of the report of the Advisory Committee,Error: Reference source not found and in this regard decides to defer consideration of this matter to the main part of its sixty-ninth session;

Also recalls paragraph 9 of the report of the Advisory Committee,⁶ decides to consider the question of temporary duty assignments at its sixty-ninth session, while maintaining existing arrangements in the interim, and emphasizes that such assignments are intended to meet temporary requirements for up to 90 days;

⁶A/68/7/Add.28.

Takes note of paragraph 15 of the report of the Advisory Committee,Error: Reference source not found and decides to establish one Local level position in the Transport and Movement Control Section of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya;

Decides to approve the total amount of 47,693,200 United States dollars net for the budgets of the five special political missions authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council included in the reports of the Secretary-General;Error: Reference source not found

Also decides to approve a charge totalling 47,693,200 dollars net against the provision appropriated for special political missions under section 3, Political affairs, of the programme budget for the biennium 2014–2015.

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