The selection of permanent staff will commence on receipt of the recommendations of the Central Review Board.

The ratio of permanent that is, unelected to non permanent, or elected, members would increase from 1 2 to almost 1 1.

2. The non permanent members of the Security Council shall be elected for a term of two years.

The Security Council must be expanded, in both its permanent and non permanent membership, and offer an opportunity for permanent voices of the developing world to be heard.

Here, the host Government is asked to cover the wages of two permanent staff members and the assumption is that this includes the director.

There are in fact already too many differences between permanent and non permanent Council membership to further exacerbate that imbalance.

The General Assembly would maintain the right to elect the non permanent members.

In 2006 the regular staff will consist of the Director (D 2), the Deputy Director (D 1) and two General Service staff.

The Council has to be expanded with both new permanent and new non permanent members.

While sponsors of resolutions did tend to look to the P 5 first, the P 5 in turn, often looked to the E 10 in informal consultations to provide feedback on their positions.

The five outgoing non permanent members are the following Algeria, Benin, Brazil, the Philippines and Romania.

First of all, the proposal submitted by the group of four envisions drastically altering the Security Council's composition as regards the proportion of permanent to non permanent members, making that proportion almost equal.

In the Security Council, eight votes constitutes an absolute majority and no distinction is made between permanent and non permanent members of the Council (Article 10, paragraph 2, of the Statute).

In the Security Council, eight votes constitutes an absolute majority and no distinction is made between permanent and non permanent members of the Council (article 10, paragraph 2, of the Statute).

Lastly, what credibility would such a Council have, and what principles of equality and democracy could it invoke, if the Security Council were to be a three tiered body with, as it were, three groupings permanent members with the veto, permanent members without the veto and non permanent members?

An election after which the record of non permanent members is not examined is accountability, but a stringent review holding new permanent members accountable is lack of accountability.

But political divisions among the Council s permanent members make achieving this goal unlikely.

Consequently, we support the necessary expansion of the Council through the inclusion of new members in the non permanent category.

It calls for two permanent seats, with the prerogatives and privileges of permanent membership, and five non permanent seats for Africa.

Restricting expansion to non permanent members would only maintain the status quo and increase the disparity in the Council's composition.

The critical informal deliberations among permanent members, moreover, continued to exclude the E 10.

Finland therefore supports an enlargement of the Council in the number of both permanent and non permanent members.

The Project analysts termed this kind of leadership integrative leadership , implying that it was longer term and that it spanned programme and policy and political and career leaders.

In the first election of the non permanent members after the increase of the membership of the Security Council from fifteen to twenty five, five of the retiring members shall continue for one more year. Non permanent members may be eligible for immediate re election, subject to the decision of their respective geographical groups.

Would its resolutions have the same force? We must acknowledge that the world has changed and that there is no further reason to limit this status to the five post War permanent members.

Concerning the Security Council, Kiribati supports the expansion of the permanent and non permanent Council memberships to better reflect the realities of our world today.

Dispelling some mythology' about the P 5

Members of the bureau of the Committee of Permanent Representatives

A general allegation for application of the agreement in respect of certain employees is not enough.

We reaffirm the Russian Federation's unwavering position that any dilution of the status of the five current permanent members first and foremost, of the right of the veto is categorically unacceptable.

The Secretary General may impose disciplinary measures on staff members whose conduct is unsatisfactory.

Private conversations among service staff are considered inappropriate when a customer is near.

My country continues to call for early action to enlarge the permanent and non permanent membership of the Security Council and to improve its working methods.

Restricting the expansion of the Council to the category of non permanent members would not only mean maintaining the status quo, but also risk increasing the disparity in its composition.

(g) Organizing and servicing the meetings of the Advisory Committee of Permanent Representatives and Other Representatives Designated by Members of the Commission and its informal working groups

We favour an increase in the number of non permanent members of the Security Council with the right to be re elected, and we support a deep reform of its working methods.

(c) One staff member was alleged to have accepted bribes from a refugee (for an unknown amount).

In my capacity as representative of a former non permanent member of the Council, I express my delegation's gratification at addressing you as President of this United Nations organ.

It has one principal subsidiary organ, namely, the Committee of Permanent Representatives.

Summary of the meetings of the Committee of Permanent Representatives for 2003

The new permanent and non permanent members joining the Council as part of this expansion should receive the same prerogatives as current permanent members.

However, and until that objective is fulfilled, Africa would insist, based on the principles of equality, justice and democracy, that all new permanent members enjoy the right of veto on an equal footing with the current permanent members.

(b) The types of dispute settlement mechanisms available to the different categories of non staff personnel and their effectiveness

Other persons carrying out non staff functions may be recruited as consultants.

However, achieving universal ratification of the Convention was vital in order to guarantee the safety of personnel.