At its fifty-eighth session, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General, during the course of the programme budget for the biennium 2004-2005, to commence, on an experimental basis, with the redeployment of posts as necessary to meet the evolving needs of the Organization in attaining its mandated programmes and activities; decided that reporting to the General Assembly should be carried out in the context of the annual budget performance reports; and requested the Secretary-General to submit, through the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, a comprehensive report for consideration by the Assembly at its sixtieth session on the progress of and lessons learned from the experiment (resolution 58/270).

At its fifty-eighth session, the General Assembly resolved that the Secretary-General should report to the Advisory Committee and to the Assembly at its fifty-ninth and sixtieth sessions all commitments made under the provisions of the resolution, together with the circumstances relating thereto, and should submit supplementary estimates to the Assembly in respect of such commitments (resolution 58/273).

(a) Reports of the Secretary-General:

     (i) Second performance report on the programme budget for the biennium 2004-2005 (resolutions 52/223 and 57/292, sect. VI, para. 12);

     (ii) United Nations Fund for International Partnerships (decisions 52/466 and 53/475), A/60/327;

     (iii) Comprehensive report on the progress and lessons learned from the redeployment of posts experiment (resolution 58/270, para. 17)

     (iv) Report on the lifting of the suspension of recruitment for posts in the General Service and related categories (resolution 59/276, sect. VIII, para. 7); A/60/363

(c) Report of the Standing Committee of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board on the administrative expenses of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, A/60/183 (under items 124 and 125).

At its resumed fifty-ninth session, in April 2005, the General Assembly decided to appropriate under section 3, Political affairs, of the programme budget for the biennium 2004-2005, the amount of 83,174,400 dollars for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq and the United Nations Observer Mission in Bougainville; and also decided to appropriate the amount of 4,131,200 dollars under section 34, Staff assessment, to be offset by a corresponding amount under income section 1, Income from staff assessment, of the programme budget for the biennium 2004-2005; decided, with retroactive effect from 1 January 2005, to increase the annual salary of the members of the Court and the judges and ad litem judges of the Tribunals by 6.3 per cent, as an interim measure and pending a decision based on the report requested in paragraph 8 of the resolution; also decided that, with retroactive effect from 1 January 2005, the annual value of all pensions in payment should be increased by 6.3 per cent as an interim measure; requested the Secretary-General to report to the Assembly on the additional expenditures resulting from the above decisions in the context of the second performance report on the programme budget for the biennium 2004-2005 and the second performance reports on the budgets of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for the biennium 2004-2005 (resolution 59/282).

(b) Reports of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions.

At its resumed fifty-ninth session, in June 2005, the General Assembly decided to appropriate an amount of $24,171,700 under section 3, Political affairs, of the programme budget for 2004-2005 for the United Nations Political Office for Somalia and for the subvention to the Special Court for Sierra Leone [of which requirements in connection with the expansion of the United Nations Political Office for Somalia are estimated at $4,171,700]; authorized the Secretary-General, as an exceptional measure, to enter into commitments in an amount not to exceed $13 million to supplement the financial resources of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, for the period from 1 July to 31 December 2005, under special political missions in section 3, Political affairs, of the programme budget for the biennium 2004-2005, on the understanding that any regular budget funds appropriated for the Court would be refunded to the United Nations at the time of liquidation of the Court should sufficient voluntary contributions be received; and requested the Secretary-General, in concert with the Management Committee of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, to redouble efforts to raise voluntary contributions to support the work of the Court, and to report to the Assembly at its sixtieth session on progress made (resolution 59/294).

(a) Report of the Secretary-General:

At its fifty-ninth session, under the item entitled "Advancement of women", the General Assembly stressed the critical importance of voluntary financial contributions by Member States to the United Nations Trust Fund for the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women to enable it to carry out its mandate; urged Member States to make voluntary contributions to the Trust Fund; decided to provide its full support to the current efforts to revitalize the Institute; and requested the Secretary-General to report to the Assembly at its sixtieth session on the implementation of the resolution (resolution 59/260).

(a) Report of the Secretary-General:

At its resumed fifty-ninth session, in April 2005, the General Assembly took note of the report of the Secretary-General (A/59/395) and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (A/59/552) (decision 59/556).

Report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the review of the operations and management of United Nations libraries

At its resumed fifty-ninth session, in April 2005, the General Assembly decided to defer to its sixtieth session consideration of the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the review of the operations and management of United Nations libraries (A/59/373) (decision 59/557).

Review of the regular programme of technical cooperation and the Development Account

At its resumed fifty-ninth session, in April 2005, the General Assembly decided to consider, as a matter of priority at the earliest possible period, but not later than the main part of its sixtieth session, the report of the Secretary-General on the review of the regular programme of technical cooperation and the Development Account (A/59/397) (decision 59/558).

First report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions on the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2004-2005: Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (A/58/7 and Corr.1)

Report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on its forty-third session: Supplement No. 16 (A/58/16)

Reports of the Secretary-General:

Proposed programme budget for the biennium 2004-2005 (A/58/6 (Introduction, Sects. 1-35, Sect. 13/Add.1, Sect. 14/Rev.1, Income sects. 1-3 and A/58/6/Corr.1)

Proposed revisions to the medium-term plan for the period 2002-2005 (A/58/83, A/58/84 and A/58/90) (also relate to item 122)

Plans for three additional conference rooms and viable solutions for allowing natural light into the rooms (A/58/556)

Viable options for ensuring sufficient parking space at United Nations Headquarters (A/58/712)

Status of possible funding arrangements for the capital master plan (A/58/729)

Cooperation with the city and state of New York related to the capital master plan (A/58/779)

Conditions of service and compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials, members of the International Court of Justice, judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, ad litem judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and ad litem judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (A/C.5/59/2 and Corr.1)

United Nations Fund for International Partnerships (A/59/170)

Information and communications technology strategy (A/59/265)

Strengthening the Department of Public Information, within the existing capacity, in order to support and enhance the United Nations website in all official languages of the Organization: status of implementation (A/59/336)

Strengthened and unified security management system for the United Nations (A/59/365 and Corr.1 and A/59/365/Add.1 and Corr.1)

Review of the structure and functions of all liaison offices or representation in New York of organizations headquartered elsewhere funded from the regular budget (A/59/395)

Review of the regular programme of technical cooperation and the Development Account (A/59/397)

Second annual progress report on the implementation of the capital master plan (A/59/441 and Add.1 and 2)

Construction of additional office facilities at the Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa (A/59/444)

Biennial report on standards of accommodation for air travel (A/59/523)

Transmitting the report of the Board of Auditors on the capital master plan for the biennium ended 31 December 2003 (A/59/161)

Redeployment of posts (A/59/753)

Review of the operations and management of United Nations libraries (A/59/373)

United Nations capital master plan for the period from August 2003 through July 2004 (A/59/420)

Estimates in respect of special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council (A/59/411 and Corr.1)

Strengthened and unified security management system for the United Nations (A/59/539)

Review of the structure and functions of all liaison offices or representation in New York of organizations headquartered elsewhere funded from the regular budget (A/59/552)

Capital master plan (A/59/556)

Conditions of service and compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials, members of the International Court of Justice, judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, ad litem judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and ad litem judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (A/59/557)

Strengthening the Department of Public Information, within the existing capacity, in order to support and enhance the United Nations website in all official languages of the Organization: status of implementation (A/59/558)

Estimates in respect of special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council (A/59/569/Add.3 and 4)

Construction of additional office facilities at the Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa (A/59/572)

Standards of accommodation for air travel (A/59/573)

Strengthened and unified security management system for the United Nations: standardized access control (A/59/785)

First performance report on the programme budget for the biennium 2004-2005 (A/59/601)

Letter dated 20 May 2005 from the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs addressed to the Officer-in-Charge of the Department of Management (A/C.5/59/30)

Possibility of the financial independence of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal from the Office of Legal Affairs (A/59/78)

Proposed programme budget outline for the biennium 2006-2007 (A/59/415)

Administration of justice in the Secretariat (A/59/706)

Transmitting the note by the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research on the financial viability of the Institute (A/59/271)

Request for a subvention to the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research resulting from the recommendation of the Board of Trustees of the Institute on the Programme of Work of the Institute for 2005 (A/C.5/59/3 and Corr.1 and Add.1)

Compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials: members of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal (A/C.5/59/12)

Request for a subvention to the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research resulting from the recommendation of the Board of Trustees of the Institute on the work programme of the Institute for 2005 (A/59/553 and Corr.1)

Proposed programme budget outline for the biennium 2006-2007 (A/59/600)