Strengthened and unified security management system : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Reaffirms the importance of a system-wide policy with regard to the safety and security of UN staff, and the unity of command in this regard; emphasizes the need for a comprehensive safety and security policy framework at the UN; decides that data related to representatives of Member States and officials other than Secretariat officials and experts on mission, as recorded in the standardized access control system, shall be subject to the full implementation of the following provisions: (a) the data shall be recorded for the sole purpose of establishing the presence or absence of persons on the premises in case of emergency preparedness and recovery operations; (b) only staff members of the DSS, shall have access to the above-mentioned data; (c) the data shall be automatically deleted from the standardized access control system after completion of the read-in/read-out cycle, which will be no later than 24 hours for access data and no later than 30 days for digital video storage data; (d) violation of any of the provisions shall constitute serious misconduct; decides to authorize the Secretary-General to enter into commitments up to US$20,208,000 under the programme budget for the biennium 2006-2007, US$1,500,000 under the budget for the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and US$1,975,000 under the budget for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda , without prejudice to the implementation of projects previously approved for the biennium 2006-2007, to be reported in the context of the respective second performance reports, to implement the first phase of the standardized access control system.

Adopted without vote, 93rd plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 61st sess., Suppl. no. 49.