Reports of the Office of Internal Oversight Services

Takes note of the reports of the Office of Internal Oversight Services; takes note also of the report on the review of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the comments of the Joint Inspection Unit thereon; requests that, in future, the appropriate legislative mandates relating to the work of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs be included in the reports of the Office of Internal Oversight Services; takes note of the report on the review of the programme and administrative practices of the secretariat of the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO and the comments of the Unit thereon, reaffirming that their merging has not been approved by the pertinent legislative bodies; takes note also of the report on the review of programme management in the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division, reaffirming that the discontinuation of mandates on crime prevention and criminal justice is within the prerogative of the pertinent legislative bodies; takes note further of the report on the investigation into the alleged conflict of interest in the UN Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) reaffirming that the approval of amendments to the Staff Regulations of the UN and the ratification of amendments to the Staff Rules are the prerogative of Member States.

Adopted without vote, 95th meeting

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