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06USUNNEWYORK600
2006-03-24 22:48:00
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UN MANAGEMENT REFORM: DELEGATIONS STILL DEADLOCKED

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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AORC KUNR UNGA
SUBJECT: UN MANAGEMENT REFORM: DELEGATIONS STILL DEADLOCKED
OVER PROCEDURAL ISSUE


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SIPDIS

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AORC KUNR UNGA
SUBJECT: UN MANAGEMENT REFORM: DELEGATIONS STILL DEADLOCKED
OVER PROCEDURAL ISSUE



1. At a small meeting of key delegations on March 23, 2006,
General Assembly President Jan Eliasson sought to find a way
to break the deadlock over how the General Assembly would
consider the Secretary-General's report, "Investing in the
United Nations: for a stronger Organization worldwide"
(A/60/692). Deputy Permanent Representative Wolff argued
that the General Assembly itself was assigned chief
responsibility for the report and needed to control the
process, allocating selected parts of the report to the Fifth
Committee and perhaps others. Ambassador Rock of Canada and
Ambassador Ozawa of Japan supported this position. South
African Ambassador Kumalo, representing the Group of 77 and
China, continued to assert that the report must be introduced
in, and considered totally by, the Fifth Committee. Rather
than use precedent or procedure to justify his position,
Kumalo said only that "the Fifth Committee must be trusted"
with the administrative items. The representatives of the
Russian Federation and Mexico proposed hybrid arrangements
involving either an "expanded Fifth Committee" or a "high
level segment" of the Fifth Committee. The Austrian
Ambassador said that the GA Plenary should maintain control
but pledged support for a formula that would "satisfy all."
(Privately, the Austrian DPR said the EU's position "was to
avoid conflict.")


2. There was no agreement on a way forward, although
Ambassador Akram of Pakistan suggested a process similar to
the one used last year for the ethics office proposal, in
which the General Assembly transmitted the report (A/60/568)
to the Fifth Committee for formal introduction, review, and
comments. All in attendance agreed that the issuance of the
report of the ACABQ--expected on Monday, March 27--was
critical to further discussions. President Eliasson asked his
chef de cabinet, Ambassador Wide, to convene the group again
that Monday afternoon to consider the issue further.
BOLTON