The UNCC secretariat noted further that, in any event, the privileges and immunities of the United Nations would protect UNCC, the Compensation Fund and the United Nations as a whole against litigation in connection with this matter.

Accordingly, the UNCC secretariat considers this matter to be closed.

Recommendations considered by the United Nations Compensation Commission to be under implementation, but not validated by the Board

The HKMA s Compensation Committee had the sole responsibility for setting Yam s salary.

The UNCC secretariat also commented that, moreover, the Office of Legal Affairs had confirmed in a legal opinion dated 14 June 2002 that the obligation to pay awards of compensation (including interest) was an obligation of Iraq and not of UNCC or the United Nations as a whole.

To adopt the access policy for Compensation Commission records archives prepared by the secretariat.

Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, established pursuant to Security Council resolution 687 (1991)

UNCC has requested the replacement or reinforcement of the doors to the claims storage area.

(h) Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission established by Security Council resolution 692 (1991)

Comment of the Administration. In response, the UNCC secretariat advised the Board that the Governing Council had taken a decision on interest on awards of compensation at its March 2005 session.

The Office of Internal Oversight Services has undertaken to provide the UNCC secretariat with continuing advice on the conduct of this process.

5. Compensation fund

V. The Compensation Fund

Compensation and Classification Service

Object of expenditure

The secretariat further informed the Board that UNCC intended to continue to abide by the legal opinion dated 27 November 2002 prepared by the Office of Legal Affairs with respect to the proper scope of the Office of Internal Oversight Services audit of UNCC.

Audit of compensation award payments

The table below lists the awards recommended by the Panel for the claims resolved in this report.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to deduct an administrative fee from future UNCC payments to beneficiaries.

In paragraph 157, the Board recommended that UNCC pay special attention to its information security until it closes down.

Comment of the Administration. UNCC continued to maintain, update, and enhance its ICT system and application related documentation.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to deduct an administrative fee from future UNCC payments to beneficiaries.

Stringent and professional quality security policies are implemented throughout the UNCC information systems, networks and databases.

In paragraph 117, the Board recommended that UNCC take further action to recover undistributed funds, in view of its completion strategy.

recommended awards

a Number of consolidated claim submissions, as conveyed in the panel report.

In paragraph 36 of its report to the Security Council,1 the Board had recommended that the UNCC secretariat draw attention to the lack of a decision by the Governing Council on the matter of interest on awards of compensation.

Comment of the Administration. The Information Services Section of the UNCC secretariat was mindful of the importance of information security and consistently paid close attention to this matter.

The UNCC secretariat therefore considers that it has done all that it can reasonably do to secure the UNCC archives while it remains the custodian thereof.

Comment of the Administration. UNCC continued to obtain payment distribution reports and the return of undistributed funds from Governments and international organizations.

UNCC reported that a new software application was being used for the archiving of records, although the Board of Auditors has not yet validated this.

Taking into account all relevant circumstances, in particular the unavailability of adequate funds and the imminent completion of the Compensation Commission's claims processing programme,

The total compensation had amounted to 700 million.

Compensation and Classification Service, Staff Administration

and found liable for monetary damages.

The UNCC secretariat noted that neither claimants nor claimant Governments had the power to compel the Governing Council to set the methods of calculation and of payment of interest.

In that regard, the Government has already established a new commission, headed by a Supreme Court justice, to determine the losses and evaluate the required reparations.

It could, for example, offer assistance to the Truth Commission, the Reparations Commission and the soon to be established office for the protection of the citizenry, and to the Human Rights Bureau of the Ministry of the Interior.

Dispossession, usurpation, and a lack of reparations.

Essential to such efforts at the international level were the International Criminal Court and the Basic Principles and Guidelines on reparations annexed to Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005 35.

The UNCC secretariat also stated that it maintains a high level of security and had tightened its security policies to meet ever increasing security demands.

Letter dated 24 March (S 1994 366) from the President of the Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission addressed to the President of the Security Council, urging that the Compensation Commission be provided with the necessary resources to ensure the accomplishment of its mandate.

It is well designed because it interferes not with the level of compensation (as many have demanded), but with the form that this compensation takes.

Summary of recommended awards for the claims of Syria 124

In paragraph 194, the Board recommended that UNCC take, with the United Nations Secretariat, appropriate steps for the long term management, guardianship and streamlined retrieval of archives.