At
UN,
Partial
$5.2 Billion
Budget Agreed,
Cuts in DGACM,
Recosting
Deferred: SPM
Fight
Continues
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
December 23, updated
-- Just before
six pm on
Friday, Inner
City Press was
informed by a
developing
world Deputy
Permanent
Representative
that a partial
UN budget deal
was done.
While
diplomats
milled about
unaware of or
speculating
about the back
room deal,
Inner City
Press obtained
a one-page
itemization of
this (partial)
Final Deal of
$5,152,299.60.
The
controversial
post recosting
was deferred
to November
2012.
"Additional
cuts" included
$10 million
from DGACM
"non-post"
expenses, down
to smaller
changes like
the
reclassification
of Chinese and
Kiswahili
Radio, and
"Non-post Wall
Palestine."
Other changes:
$427,000 for
two P-4 posts
in the PBSO --
not the Palm
Beach
Sheriff's
Office but the
PeaceBuilding
Support
Office;
$220,000 for a
D-1 for "Rule
of Law... and
retain P-5;"
new posts in
Portuguese
Radio and
changes at the
Russian New
Center; and
money for
Webcasting.
One awaited
comment, or at
least tweets,
from US
Ambassador for
Management Joe
Torsella.
[Update:
Inner City
Press greeted
Torsella at
7:35 pm; he
sat
speed-reading
documents as fighting
continued
about Special
Political
Missions.]
A
UPR Paragraph
was agreed on:
"Decides to
reclassify one
P5 post to D1
under
subprogram 4,
and requests
the SG to
designate
capacity to
support UPR
and to report
in the context
of the
performance
report." UPR
is Universal
Periodic
Review.
UN North Lawn
at night,
votes on deal
not yet shown
(c) MRLee
Inner
City Press
will be
scanning and
further
uploading; the
deal has to be
voted on by
the Fifth
Committee in
Conference
Room 5, then
hours later in
the General
Assembly.
Watch this
site.
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