The share of staff from Eastern Europe and NIS amounts to 11 per cent.

The Advisory Committee notes that numerous factors have an impact on General Service to Professional ratios, including technological innovations.

Examples include projects concerning commodity trade, competition law and policies, biotrade, assessment of trade in services, commercial diplomacy, FDI statistics, support for investment promotion agencies, international investment agreements, support for trade facilitation policy makers and negotiators, corporate transparency, insurance markets, e commerce and e tourism, assistance on science and technology policies, and EMPRETEC.

UNICEF estimates that health and nutrition combined will represent 75 per cent of total programme expenditure for this focus area.

A recent survey said that 27 percent of bosses believe their employees are inspired by their firm.

It is projected to be slightly higher in 2005, at 11.9 per cent, with 15.6 per cent for staff in the Professional and higher categories and 9.4 per cent for staff in the General Service and related categories.

The staff gender distribution was 67 per cent male and 33 per cent female.

Such expenses are provided for in the relevant programme budgets, and the actual costs incurred in each financial period are reported as current year expenditure.

Moreover, 7.2 of women employees and 2.2 of men employees are employed part time.

We are extremely concerned to note that, of the professional staff, an overwhelming 70 per cent come from Western countries, with only 12 per cent from Africa and a paltry 3 per cent from Asia.

The share of Asia and the Pacific in UNCTAD's overall expenditures on regional and country projects decreased from 19.8 per cent in 2003 to 16.3 per cent in 2004, mainly on account of decreased country level expenditures.

2. Reaffirms that the expenses of the Organization, including the backstopping of peacekeeping operations, shall be borne by Member States

The combined expenditures of the Annual and Supplementary Programme Funds were 94 per cent of total funds available in 2004, compared with 91 per cent in 2003.

a Actual expenditures.

b Projected expenditures.

The strength of the subregional offices is at the level of 21 per cent of all ECA professional staff or 14 per cent of all ECA staff, including General Service.

Article 4 stipulates that in the cabinet and senior civil service posts the proportion of persons of either gender must not be less than 25 per cent.

According to Iran, the claim for project expenses relates to expenses due to amortization of equipment and devices, repairs and keeping of bouyants, administrative and staff costs during the postponed period .

When medical expenses constituted only a small percentage of income, as was typically the case 50 years ago, an egalitarian approach to healthcare was a small extravagance.

Mr. LEE Jae Wan (Republic of Korea), speaking on behalf of the Asian Group, welcomed the fact that the percentage of senior staff from Asia and the Pacific, as well as the percentage of female Professional staff from that region, had increased since 2001.

(c) The recording of non existent expenditure

Implementing partners' expenditure

Implementing partners' expenditure

Secondly, we froze our defence expenditure.

Decisions involving expenditures

In comparison, of those with a form of disability, 41 percent of women and 51 percent of men were employed.

During the same period (1997 2004), staff resources of the Section increased from 5 to 13 posts, or 160 per cent.

The ministry has established an internal working group called An organisation in balance' that monitors the composition of committees, particularly the male female ratio, and staff composition.

5. Requests the Secretary General to ensure that contractors whose staff are present on the United Nations premises on a regular basis are held accountable for conducting individual background checks at their own expense

Management and administration expenditures were 92 million and programme support 164 million.

With regard to staffing issues, he said that 79.9 per cent of the Department's 1,775 posts worldwide had been filled.

The Fund's information technology staff currently represent less than 15 per cent of its total staff, which is in the low to acceptable range for an organization of its size.

(In millions of United States dollars)

Table 1 Expenditure of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2004

Contributions towards the expenses of the Tribunal

The State defrayed the costs of legal aid.

Accordingly, the published accounts show a total income for the biennium for the Technical Cooperation Trust Fund for Provision of Junior Professional Officers of 203,000 against total expenditure of US 40,000 (see statement VIII).

In 2001, 24 of the senior academic staff financed by the Council for Higher Education were women, a rise from 20 in 1992 93.

While the estimated requirements were based on the salary scale applicable to the G 2 step 1 level, 70 per cent of the staff were at higher grade levels.

Similarly to last year, the same five agencies expended the bulk percentage of total technical cooperation, channelling about 82 per cent of the total 2.6 billion.

At present, expenditures by landlocked developing countries on transport and insurance services as a share of total export earnings are, on average, double that of developing countries overall, and triple that of the developed economies.

Additional requirements were due mainly to a higher proportion of staff on temporary duty assignment status from United Nations offices in New York and Geneva as opposed to Mission appointees.

2. The expenses of the Tribunal shall be borne by the United Nations.

Furnishing a new apartment requires large expenses.

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