(c) Eastern European States (three vacancies) Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria

(b) Asian States (four vacancies) India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Pakistan

(e) Western European and other States (five vacancies) Italy, Portugal, Switzerland.

(a) African States (four vacancies) Benin, Central African Republic, Senegal, South Africa

There are no upcoming vacancies on the Commission for its forty fifth session (2006 2007).

There are no upcoming vacancies on the Commission for terms beginning in 2006.

Initial estimates were based on a 10 per cent vacancy factor.

(d) Latin American and Caribbean States (four vacancies) Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Uruguay

The Russian Text Processing Unit has five projected vacancies to be filled in the next five years.

The end July 2005 vacancy information reflects a General Service vacancy rate of 5.7 per cent, a rate which is still substantially higher than the rates for 2004 and prior years.

There are six vacancies on the Working Group that were not filled for members whose terms expire on 31 December 2005.

A provision of 3,050,800 has been made to cover their salaries and common staff costs, taking into account a vacancy rate of 10 per cent.

The Council elected Antigua and Barbuda and Haiti to fill postponed vacancies for a term beginning on the date of election and expiring on 31 December 2008.

Section III Public Affirmative Actions and Policies of this regulation deals with the establishment, by federal higher level education institutions, of a system to set aside vacancies for public schools students.

Since the French Text Processing Unit has four projected vacancies to be filled in the next five years, the desirable size of the French roster would be six.

The unutilized balance was due primarily to an actual average vacancy rate of 20.7 per cent, which was the result of early implementation of the downsizing of the Mission.

Since there are eight projected vacancies to be filled in the Spanish Text Processing Unit in the next five years, the desirable size of the Spanish roster would be 12.

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The lower requirements result from reduced acquisition of information technology equipment, which comprise only the replacement of items to be written off and some additional equipment for the geographic information system, while the budget for 2004 05 provided for the establishment of the Mission's information technology network.

Upon enquiry the Advisory Committee was informed that as at 20 September 2005, 40 of the 45 posts were encumbered, resulting in a vacancy rate of 11 per cent.

The Board noted, during its May 2005 interim audit, that while the recruitment processing time at UNRWA might have improved, numerous vacancies had existed for more than six months.

Thus, the task of the present study is to determine whether the local labour market will be able to meet the requirements for the remaining 43 projected vacancies of Editorial and Desktop Publishing Assistants in other units over the next five year period.

Two hundred twenty seven candidates responded to the vacancy announcement for Spanish Editorial and Desktop Publishing Assistants 109 had their current address in the New York metropolitan area 83 were scheduled to take the test and 47 actually took it.

According to the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management, the projected number of General Service vacancies in the Text Processing Section from 2005 to 2009 is 47, as shown in table 1.

41. Decides that a vacancy rate of 6.5 per cent for Professional staff, 3.5 per cent for General Service staff and 27.2 per cent for field security staff shall be used as a basis for the calculation of the budget for the biennium 2008 2009

The Secretary General has the honour to submit to the General Assembly and to the Security Council the curricula vitae of the candidates nominated by national groups for the elections to fill five vacancies on the International Court of Justice, which will be held during the sixtieth session of the General Assembly.

Further requests the Secretary General, cognizant of the continuously high international staff vacancy rates in many missions, to consider, when formulating budget submissions, greater utilization of national staff, as appropriate, commensurate with the requirements of the mission and its mandate

The apparent lack of implementation of previously approved recommendations combined with a relatively high vacancy rate called into question whether an accurate needs assessment of staffing had indeed been carried out by the Mission before the submission of yet another request for additional civilian staff.

The increased requirements are attributable to a higher provision for the self sustainment of military contingents and formed police units, owing to their full deployment over the budget period, compared with a phased deployment in the 2004 05 budget, and to lower anticipated vacancy rates.

The increased requirements result from the need to implement an estimated 100 quick impact projects, compared with only 20 in the budget for 2004 05, aimed at improving local medical, educational and sanitation infrastructure as well as supporting grass root initiatives that would be undertaken in support of the political process.

Mr. Berridge (Office of Programme Planning, Budget and Accounts), introducing the report of the Secretary General on the suspension of recruitment for posts in the General Service and related categories (A 60 363), said that General Service vacancy rates had generally trended upward over the biennium.

The higher requirements relate principally to the reintegration activities of the Mission, which will necessitate registration costs, feeding costs, cash reinsertion benefits, counselling, community mobilization and sensitization programmes, employment projects and programmes and educational reintegration programmes, as well as disaster protection and environmental protection training.

The higher requirements result from the full deployment of the military, police and civilian personnel over the budget period, compared with a phased deployment in the 2004 05 budget, and to lower anticipated vacancy rates.

3. Also authorizes the Secretary General to appoint to P 2 posts in duty stations with chronically high vacancy rates up to three successful candidates from the General Service to Professional examination each year when no successful candidates from the national competitive examination are available