UN Human Rights Treaties

United Nations A/60/7/Add.27
General Assembly Distr.: General
19 December 2005
Original: English
05-65172 (E) 191205
*0565172*
Sixtieth session
Agenda items 124 and 71 (b)
Proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006-2007
Human rights questions: human rights questions, including
alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment
of human rights and fundamental freedoms
Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral
International Convention on the Protection and
Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons
with Disabilities
Programme budget implications of draft resolution
A/C.3/60/L.28, as revised
Twenty-eighth report of the Advisory Committee on
Administrative and Budgetary Questions
1. The Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions has
considered the statement submitted by the Secretary-General in accordance with
rule 153 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly on the programme
budget implications of draft resolution A/C.3/60/L.28, as revised (A/C.5/60/21), on
the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention
on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with
Disabilities.
2. As indicated in paragraph 2 (a) of the Secretary-General’s statement, under the
terms of the draft resolution, the General Assembly would decide that the Ad Hoc
Committee should hold, within existing resources, prior to the sixty-first session of
the General Assembly, two sessions in 2006, one of 15 working days, from
16 January to 3 February, in order to achieve a complete reading of the draft text of
a convention prepared by the Chairman of the Committee, and one of 10 working
days, from 7 to 18 August.
3. The Advisory Committee notes that the Secretary-General indicates that the
15 working days for the seventh session called for in the draft resolution would
require an additional week of meetings for the seventh session of the Committee

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over the estimates included in the draft calendar of conferences and meetings,
giving rise to an estimated additional provision of $118,400 over the proposed
programme budget for conference-servicing costs, including $111,400 for section 2
and $7,000 for section 28D. The Secretary-General further indicates that it is not
possible at this stage to determine the capacity to absorb these additional costs,
which would represent a charge against the contingency fund and, as such, would
require appropriations for the biennium 2006-2007 to be approved by the General
Assembly at its sixtieth session.
4. The estimate of $7,000 under section 28D should be absorbed consistent
with the terms of the draft resolution.
5. The Advisory Committee understands that the Secretariat intends to report on
the degree to which additional conference-servicing requirements can be absorbed
in the context of the consolidated statement of programme budget implications and
revised estimates to be submitted very shortly. Under the circumstances, the
Committee recommends that conference-servicing requirements be considered
in the context of the review of the consolidated statement provided for in the
procedures established by the General Assembly in its resolutions 41/213 and
42/211 regarding the use and operation of the contingency fund.