GUIDANCE: SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR LEBANON MANAGEMENT

UNCLAS STATE 022576 SENSITIVE SIPDIS USUN FOR SIMONOFF AND SCHEDLBAUER HAGUE FOR MANNING E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL PTER UNSC LE SUBJECT: GUIDANCE: SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR LEBANON MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE REF: A. STATE 21098 ¶B. HACKETT-SIMONOFF EMAIL OF 3/9/09 ¶1. (U) Department provides the following guidance regarding compensation for judges employed by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL). This guidance modifies that previously sent in REF A. ¶2. (SBU) USUN may support the British compromise proposal which provides for a one-time adjustment of the base salary of STL judges to 161,681 USD. This adjustment should be linked to neither the compensation rates of the UN professional staff nor the prevailing salaries of Hague-based tribunal judges. It simply embraces the concept that reconsideration of salaries should be determined by the Management Committee on an annual basis, taking into account the decisions of the UNGA regarding compensation of judges in other tribunals. (See REF B) CLINTON