Two General Service posts on the technical support budget will be eliminated.

No breaches of the Military Technical Agreement were reported during February 2005.

No breaches of the Military Technical Agreement were reported during May 2005.

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(b) All aspects of staff administration and recruitment of special service agreement guides.

(d) A demonstration and extension service exchange programme, including technical training, study tour and ground observation, and grass roots technical show.

This agreement ensures better service and monitoring of contracts for appointments of limited duration.

The Board considers that the absence of an adequate service level agreement prevents UNOPS from adequately regulating the quality of the service that it receives from its service providers.

The services are organized around three entities, namely, the Resources Management Service, the Technical Cooperation Service and the Intergovernmental Affairs and Outreach Service, as part of the Division of Management.

UNDP was committed to the Agreement, but technical cooperation resources needed to be increased.

There was broad based agreement that there had to be minimum transport, service delivery, etc.

In technical contexts it is used quantitatively, but without any general agreement on its definition.

These activities generally take place under the guidance of IOM's Technical Cooperation Service and, in specialised cases, through the IOM Counter Trafficking Service as well.

Cases where work begins before the signing of a special service agreement represent a very small percentage of the total number of special service agreements.

UNDP is supporting State and county level public administration through technical assistance and in service training.

58. Secondly, the special service agreement comes in handy in the hiring of short term assistance.

Indeed, unilateral decisions to move troops, unmonitored, are in technical violation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

A service level agreement for UNOPS was expected to be concluded by the second quarter of 2005.

The team provides assistance to the Commission under the cooperation service agreement signed on 16 June 1993.

In paragraph 326 of the report, UNDP agreed with the Board's recommendation that it (a) expedite its revision of the special service agreement guidelines and (b) adhere to the special service agreement guidelines in respect of the duration of contracts.

There was general agreement that the provision of technical assistance to developing countries must be given priority.

(b) Preparation of technical guidelines on (i) management development training (ii) public service ethics (iii) manpower planning for public service (iv) retraining mechanisms and (v) training of trainers

This practice has spread such that now it is common for a customer to engage a service provider by including a service level agreement in a wide range of service contracts in practically all industries and markets.

Third, support a peace agreement designed in accordance with the country s financial and technical capacity to implement it.

Pôle Dette and UNCTAD extended and formalized their cooperation and in 2005 will sign a technical cooperation agreement.

On full implementation of the Agreement, UNIDO's presence would be extended to 80 countries, providing increased technical cooperation.

Comment by the Administration. UNFPA has reviewed with UNDP the service level agreement, including the terms and conditions addressing bank reconciliations, and the agreement was finalized in April 2005.

Technical expertise is in place to set up a payroll system and civil service and human resources management capacities.

It may become necessary to use international technical support personnel instead of some of the proposed field service staff.

2. The General Service and local posts at each field office will carry out both technical and administrative duties.

In addition, in response to the request of participating countries of the Bangkok Agreement, UNCTAD, in cooperation with ESCAP and UNDP, has undertaken the necessary technical studies for the establishment of a regional investment information and promotion service for Asia and the Pacific.

That cooperation agreement could be complemented by a protocol covering the technical details on a case by case basis.

It also suggested the establishment of an administrative and technical unit to service the intersessional process of the Review Conference.

Responsible for providing and maintaining a transport service with associated technical support to the military observers and administration of UNOMIG.

The management of this new arrangement is through a contract that may include one or more service level agreement(s).

General Service staff to support the Professional staff members will be provided by UNDP in accordance with the Cooperation Agreement.

In addition to local and long distance telephone service, Frontier offers broadband Internet, digital television service, and computer technical support to residential and business customers in 28 states in the United States.

The outlines of a new WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement are already clear, but some technical differences remain on specific provisions.

An explicit reference to development considerations in connection with technical assistance is made in the Cotonou agreement, as described below.

We pledge our technical support to the parties as they seek to develop an effective safeguards regime under this agreement.

On the technical side, the Bush administration hired the world's best oil service companies to revamp Iraq's technologically challenged oil fields.

Contractual personnel were first used in some professional, but especially technical and trade related areas, by contract through international service agencies.

These arrangements are complex but, in essence, UNFPA now provides technical support directly instead of paying agencies to provide this service.

The team provides assistance to the Commission under the cooperation service agreement signed with the United Nations on 11 December 1992.

The Administration indicated that exigencies of service might have caused Executive Offices to authorize programme managers to allow consultants to proceed with work without having the signatures on the Special Service Agreement form.