Executive Secretariat

Statement by the Officer in Charge of the secretariat

The Executive Secretaries of the regional commissions participated actively in all the meetings of the Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs.

The Executive Secretary invited Parties to communicate their views on the secretariat's activities.

The secretariat has already commenced the implementation of internal peer review mechanisms in the present biennium.

Cognizant of the role of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development as the secretariat responsible for the substantive servicing of the Commission,

The Executive Director and other members of the secretariat participated in panel discussions during the humanitarian affairs segment.

The Executive Director addressed issues linked to UNGEI, highlighting its roll out at country level and the efforts under way to strengthen the secretariat, including through the addition of two staff posts under the supervision of a Deputy Executive Director, as a means of raising its profile.

The secretariat has participated in the Executive Committee and the Board meetings of the MA, including in the drafting of the relevant reports.

In this context, it shall be in charge of analyzing and studying the draft annual budgets of the Organization proposed by the Executive Secretariat.

In response to another question, the secretariat said that the timing of country programme submissions to the Executive Boards was being discussed by the UNDG Executive Committee agencies.

In response to another question, the secretariat said that the timing of country programme submissions to the Executive Boards was being discussed by the UNDG Executive Committee agencies.

3. Invites the International Telecommunication Union to assume the leading managerial role in the executive secretariat of the Summit and its preparatory process

In that regard, the Meeting agreed that the Office for Outer Space Affairs should clarify the matter with the executive secretariat of the Charter.

The Executive management and policy (EDM) programme bears the organizational responsibility for the management of the secretariat and its responsiveness to the tasks assigned by the Convention and the COP.

As requested by decision 45 10 (d) of the Executive Committee, the Secretariat submits the revised report and the covering note, after approval by the Chair of the Executive Committee, to the Open ended Working Group at its twenty fifth meeting.

The Officer in Charge noted that 2005 had emerged as a remarkable year for international climate change policy.

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The establishment of the Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED) provides a much needed infusion of resources to Secretariat support for the CTC.

Nevertheless, the focus on operational challenges has meant that the Secretariat has had less opportunity to address some of the long term, institutional development elements of the reform agenda.

Any decision so taken shall be communicated to all the Members by the Executive Secretariat as quickly as possible and shall be entered in the final report of the following session of the Council of Members.

A particular area where the Team hopes to be able to help the Executive Directorate is through the database that the Team has developed in conjunction with the Secretariat.

A delegation requested the secretariat to continue consultations with the other Executive Committee agencies and to prepare common proposals for any changes in the approval process and further harmonization.

Any decision so taken shall be communicated to all the Members by the Executive Secretariat as quickly as possible and shall be entered in the final report of the following session of the Council of Members.

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In its continuing review of the functions and operations of the secretariat, the SBI, at its twenty first session, provided guidance to the Executive Secretary on how to address this matter.

Over the past two years and as a result of the reduction in the size of UNCTAD's Special Programme for Least Developed, Landlocked and Island Developing Countries, part of the resources of the core project has been made available for research work required for the Least Developed Countries Report.

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It has been the Secretariat's experience that a Party's offer to host the Meeting of the Parties is not intended to include the end of year Executive Committee meeting.

The Officer in Charge of the secretariat extended his thanks to the Government of Canada for hosting the COP and expressed his appreciation that it had made special efforts to render this event climate neutral.

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This note summarizes the proceedings and outcome of the seventh meeting of the LEG and follow up action thereon.

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