The Board requested the President of the Board to transmit the Chairperson's summary to the President of the General Assembly.

The Board draws the attention of the General Assembly to this matter.

Successive General Assembly resolutions and Executive Board decisions have expanded the role of UNIFEM.

Executive and management functions between Assembly sessions are discharged by the Executive Board, which is democratically elected.

The Board reports to the Conference and also reports annually on its activities to the General Assembly.

At its thirty eighth session, in 1983, the General Assembly expressed its satisfaction that the Secretary General had revived the Advisory Board on Disarmament Studies and requested him to report annually to the Assembly on the work of the Board (resolution 38 183 O).

The General Assembly also requested the Board to follow up on previous recommendations and to report to it accordingly.

The outcome of the event would be a report by the President of the Board to the General Assembly.

The Board of Auditors, established by the General Assembly in 1946 (resolution 74 (I)), transmits to the Assembly the financial reports and audited financial statements (see also item 122).

The assembly adopted the statute and programme goals and tasks, elected the board of directors and president of the association.

The Board reports to the General Assembly on the operations of the Fund and on the investment of its assets.

It is proposed that the Pension Board recommend to the General Assembly that it authorize the Board to supplement contributions to the Emergency Fund for the biennium 2006 2007 by an amount not exceeding 200,000.

The general assembly elects an executive board consisting of representatives from the Parties in the region, the host Government and SBC.

The present report covers matters that, in the opinion of the Board, should be brought to the attention of the General Assembly.

The item had originally been on the agenda of the second regular session of 2004, by the Board had deferred it to the present session so that the Board could benefit from the report of the Board of Auditors and any discussions by the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly.

In the past, three reports on the implementation of the recommendations of the Board were submitted to the General Assembly two by the Secretary General (concerning the United Nations Secretariat, funds and programmes) and one by the Board.

In its report to the General Assembly, the Board found the proposed structure acceptable as a blueprint and endorsed it in principle .3

In accordance with regulations adopted by the General Assembly, the Fund is administered by the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board, a staff pension committee for each member organization and a secretariat of the Board and of each such committee.

In accordance with the regulations and rules adopted by the Assembly, the Fund is administered by the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board, a staff pension committee for each member organization and a secretariat of the Board and each such committee.

In paragraph 617, the Board recommends that the Economic Commission for Europe comply with General Assembly resolutions on the geographical distribution of United Nations staff.

The Assembly will now hear an address by Mrs. Virginia Vargas, Founding Director and Executive Board Member of the Flora Tristan Centre for Peruvian Women.

The General Assembly, the Commission and the Board have also urged regular donors to increase their contributions, if possible, in order to provide the Board with the resources to meet the growing needs of torture victims and the members of their families.

The report was considered and approved for submission to the General Assembly by the Board of Trustees of the Institute at the forty fifth session of the Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, held from 29 June to 1 July 2005.

The Secretary General has the honour to transmit to the General Assembly a letter dated 1 July 2005 (see annex) from the Chairman of the Board of Auditors transmitting the report of the Board on implementation of its recommendations relating to the biennium 2002 2003, submitted in accordance with General Assembly resolution 52 212 B of 31 March 1998 and paragraph 9 of General Assembly resolution 58 249 A of 23 December 2003.

5. Also requests the Board of Auditors to submit its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly at its sixty first session for consideration and action

6. Requests the Board to continue to monitor the experience with these issues and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its fifty seventh session

Takes note of the note by the Secretary General transmitting to the General Assembly the letter dated 1 July 2005 from the Chairman of the Board of Auditors transmitting the report of the Board on implementation of its recommendations relating to the biennium 2002 2003 2

The outcome of the session would be in the form of a summary of the President of the Board, and it would be sent to the President of the General Assembly by the President of the Board as an input to the Millennium 5 process.

Takes note of the note by the Secretary General transmitting to the General Assembly the letter dated 1 July 2005 from the Chairman of the Board of Auditors transmitting the report of the Board on implementation of its recommendations relating to the biennium 2002 2003 2

The Central Board of Film Censors, Censor Board for Private Productions, the Advertising Censor Board, the Drama Censor Board all have representation of women.

The Board notes that other offices (Department for General Assembly and Conference Management, Department of Political Affairs and ECLAC) have not strictly adhered to the administrative instructions.

In this context, it was suggested that the operation of the Trade and Development Board should be improved, and the link between the Board and the General Assembly on trade and development issues should be strengthened through, inter alia, a revival of the joint meeting between the Board and the Second Committee on the General Assembly's agenda item on trade and development.

2. Notes, in this regard, that the Board recognized that its decision to retain its current size, and its composition and allocation of seats did not fully respond to General Assembly resolution 57 286 regarding the size and composition of the Board to achieve fairer representation

In the legislative branch, the first governing Board of the National Assembly for the period 2002 2006 included two women deputies out of a total of seven members.

The audit was conducted in accordance with General Assembly resolution 74 (I) of 7 December 1946 and resolution 57 292, in which the Assembly requested the Board of Auditors to initiate oversight activities with respect to the development and implementation of the capital master plan and to report annually thereon to the Assembly.

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Recommends that the General Assembly consider the budget implications of the present resolution for the International Narcotics Control Board, in particular the work of its secretariat concerning precursor control

At the request of the Board in decision IDB.23 Dec.12, annual reports include information on operational activities for development arising from relevant United Nations General Assembly resolutions.

43. Requests the Secretary General, as Chairman of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, to address this matter in the context of the Board and to report to the General Assembly thereon at its sixtieth session with a view to ensuring that all staff are covered

9. Takes note of the note by the Secretary General transmitting to the General Assembly the letter dated 1 July 2005 from the Chairman of the Board of Auditors transmitting the report of the Board on implementation of its recommendations relating to the biennium 2002 2003 A 60 113.

5. Takes note of the decision of the Board to amend the rules of procedure of the Fund in order to make formal provision for the additional alternate representative of the General Assembly to attend the meetings of the Standing Committee, as approved provisionally by the Board in 2004

3. Notes that a further review of the size and composition of the Board and the Standing Committee will be undertaken in the first instance by the Standing Committee in 2001 and subsequently by the Board in 2002, addressing the issues set out in paragraph 252 of the report of the Board Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty fifth Session, Supplement No. 9 (A 55 9).

Pursuant to the appeals by the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and the Board of Trustees of the Fund, donors are invited to pay their contributions to the Fund before March 2006 to enable the Board to take them into account at its twenty fifth session, in April 2006.

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