Administrative and Budgetary Committee (Fifth Committee)

Statements made at the 73rd session of the Fifth Committee

Main part | First resumed part | Second resumed part

AGENDA ITEM DESCRIPTION
 

Address by the President of the General Assembly

 

Organization of Work

134

Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of the Board of Auditors

135

Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations: Shifting the management paradigm in the United Nations: comparative assessment of human resources structures

136

Programme budget for the biennium 2018-2019: Construction and property management: Capital master plan

136

Programme budget for the biennium 2018-2019: progress in the renovation of Africa Hall and the construction of new office facilities at the Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa

136

Programme budget for the biennium 2018-2019: Construction and property management: Proposal for the renovation of the North Building at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago

136

Programme budget for the biennium 2018-2019: Construction and property management: Seismic mitigation retrofit and life-cycle replacements project at the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific premises in Bangkok; Progress on the replacement of office blocks A to J at the United Nations Office at Nairobi

136

Programme budget for the biennium 2018-2019: Construction and property management: Strategic heritage plan of the United Nations Office at Geneva

136

Programme budget for the biennium 2018-2019: Enterprise resource planning project – Umoja

136

Programme budget for the biennium 2018-2019: First performance report on the programme budget for the biennium 2018–2019; Special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council: Chapeau; and Thematic cluster III: regional offices, offices in support of political processes and other missions

136

Programme budget for the biennium 2018-2019: Construction and property management: Progress report on the implementation of a flexible workplace at United Nations Headquarters, Revised estimates relating to the Office of the Victims’ Rights Advocate under section 1, Overall policymaking, direction and coordination, section 29B, Department of Operational Support, and section 36, Staff assessment, Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council at its thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth sessions and twenty-eighth special session, Programme budget implications (PBIs): Effects of atomic radiation, Advancing responsible State behaviour in cyberspace in the context of international security, Convening a conference on the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its seventieth session, Situation of human rights in Myanmar, Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine, A global call for concrete action for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States, Report of the United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme; and Contingency fund: consolidated statement of programme budget implications and revised estimates

26th Meeting, 22 December 2018

(Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine)

  • Russian Federation

(Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council at its thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth sessions and twenty-eighth special session)

136

Programme budget for the biennium 2018-2019: Request for a subvention to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

136

Programme budget for the biennium 2018-2019: Revised estimates relating to the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization under section 5, Peacekeeping operations

136

Programme budget for the biennium 2018-2019: Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its 2018 session

136

Programme budget for the biennium 2018-2019: Special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council: Thematic cluster I: Special and personal envoys, advisers and representatives of the Secretary-General; and Thematic cluster II: sanctions monitoring teams, groups and panels, and other entities and mechanisms; Revised estimates relating to the resident coordinator system under section 1, Overall policymaking, direction and coordination; Report on the use of the commitment authority and request for a subvention to the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone

26th Formal Meeting, 22 December 2018

(Thematic cluster I: Special and personal envoys, advisers and representatives of the Secretary-General)

  • Cuba
  • Canada
  • Iran
  • India
  • Nicaragua
  • Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Belarus
  • Netherlands
  • Austria
136

Programme budget for the biennium 2018-2019: Special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council: United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq

136

Programme budget for the biennium 2018-2019: Special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council: Thematic cluster II: sanctions monitoring teams, groups and panels, and other entities and mechanisms: United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant

136

Programme budget for the biennium 2018-2019: United Nations Office for Partnerships

137

Programme Planning

138

Improving the financial situation of the United Nations

5th Meeting, 16 October 2018

8th Meeting, 23 October 2018

139

Pattern of conferences

140, 149

Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations; Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of United Nations peacekeeping operations

1st Meeting, 9 October 2018

2nd Meeting, 10 October 2018

26th Meeting, 22 December 2018

  • Egypt (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
  • United States
  • Russian Federation
141, 142

Human Resources Management; Joint Inspection Unit

3rd Meeting, 12 October 2018 (Disciplinary matters, Ethics Office, JIU report on conflict of interest)

15th Meeting, 15 November 2018 (Global human resources strategy 2019–2021, Overview, Desirable ranges, Composition, JIU report on Internship programmes)

17th Meeting, 20 November 2018 (Mobility)

22nd Meeting, 11 December 2018 (Amendments to the Staff Regulations and Rules)

143

Unite Nations Common System

144

United Nations pension system

145

Administrative and budgetary coordination of the United Nations with the specialized agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency

146, 135

Report on the activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services; Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations

147

Administration of justice at the United Nations

148

Financing of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

165

Financing of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur

 

Closing of the main part of the seventy-third session

 

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