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Table 2

	2008	2009	2010
	United States dollars
Section 2, General Assembly and Economic and Social Council Affairs
Conference services for two-day meeting	43 000	43 000	43 000
Section 23, Human Rights
P-3 level	150 200	150 200	150 200
Consultants services for two months each year	10 000	10 000	10 000
Travel of the independent expert to present his report to the Council, attend the annual consultation meeting, attend the annual meeting of special procedures and hold consultations to formulate recommendations concerning the realization of the Millennium Development Goals	31 900	31 900	31 900
Travel of the independent expert for two field missions per year		16 700	16 700
Travel of staff to accompany the independent expert during field missions		9 800	9 800
Local transportation, security, communications and other miscellaneous expenses during field missions		7 200	7 200
Travel of one treaty body member or special procedure mandate-holder to participate in one annual consultation	7 000	7 000	7 000
Travel of five experts for one annual consultation	35 000	35 000	35 000
Total section 23	234 100	267 800	267 800
Section 28 E Administration, Geneva
Conference services for two-day meeting	1 700	1 700	1 700
Grand total	278 800	312 500	312 500

46. Provisions have not been made under sections 2, 23 and 28 E of the programme budget for the biennium 2008-2009 for the activities outlined in the table above. Although additional requirements of $278,800 for 2008 and $312,500 for 2009 will be required under sections 2, 23, and 28 E for the biennium 2008-2009, as a result of the adoption of the resolution, a preliminary review leads the Secretariat to assume that some absorption of the estimated requirements is possible. The Secretariat will seek to identify areas from which resources can be redeployed to meet the requirements in the biennium 2008-2009. At the time the General Assembly reviews the question of the revised estimates resulting from decisions made by the Council at its seventh session, it is anticipated that the Secretariat would be in a position to inform the Assembly on how the additional requirements could be met.

47. Since the period for the renewal of the mandate extends into the biennium 2010-2011, the requirements for 2010 will be considered in the context of the preparation of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2010-2011.

48. With regard to paragraph 3, attention is drawn to the provisions of section VI of General Assembly resolution 45/248 B, and subsequent resolutions, the most recent of which is resolution 62/236, in which the Assembly reaffirmed that the Fifth Committee was the appropriate Main Committee of the Assembly entrusted with responsibilities for administrative and budgetary matters and reaffirmed the role of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions.