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VIII. Resolutions adopted on the reports of the Fifth Committee 251 mission, the International Narcotics Control Board, the United Nations Administrative Tribunal and the Human Rights Committee: Revised rate of honoraria (US dollars) Chairmen (Presidents) Vice-Chairman of the Inter- national Narcotics Control Board ................. . Other members ........... . Additional amount payable to members of the Interna- tional Law Commission, when acting as special rap- porteurs, conditional upon the preparation of specific reports of studies between sessions of the Commission 5 000 4 000 3 000 2 500 2. Requests the Secretary-General to keep the above rates of honoraria under review and to report thereon to the General Assembly when, in his judgement, their revision by the Assembly might be warranted. 35/219. 99th plenary meeting I 7 December I 980 Use of Arabic in the subsidiary organs of the General Assembly, in the Security Council and in the Economic and Social Council: amend- ments to rules 51, 52, 54 and 56 of the rules of procedure of the Assembly A The General Assembly, Referring to its resolution 3190 (XXVIII) of 18 December 1973, by which it decided to include Arabic among the official and working languages of the General Assembly and its Main Committees, Referring also to its resolution 34/226 of 20 Decem- ber 1979, by which the Arabic language establishment was put on a par with the establishments for all the other official and working languages, Taking into consideration the fact that the Arabic lan- guage services are prevented from issuing documents with the necessary speed and in the necessary quantity because Arabic, unlike the other official and working languages of the United Nations, is used only in the General Assembly and its Main Committees, Affirming that, in the interest of the full effectiveness of the work of the United Nations, Arabic should be ac- corded the same status as the other official and working languages, l. Decides to include Arabic among the official and working languages of the subsidiary organs of the General Assembly, no later than I January 1982; 2. Requests the Security Council to include Arabic among its official and working languages and the Economic and Social Council to include Arabic among its official languages, no later than I January 1983; 3. Requests the Secretary-General to take the necessary measures to that end and to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session on the implementation of the present resolution. 99th plenary meeting 17 December 1980 B The General Assembly Adopts the following amendments to the rules of procedure of the General Assembly, proposed in a note by the Secretariat of 3 December I 980, 82 on the under- standing that the new text will take effect on the date of the implementation of paragraph I of resolution A above: (a) Replace rules 51 and 52 by the following text: "VIII. LANGUAGES "Official and working languages "Rule 51 "Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish shall be both the official and the working languages of the General Assembly, its committees and its subcommittees. "Interpretation "Rule 52 "Speeches made in any of the six languages of the General Assembly shall be interpreted into the other five languages." (b) Replace rule 54 by the following text: "Languages of verbatim and summary records "Rule 54 "Verbatim or summary records shall be drawn up as soon as possible in the languages of the General Assembly.'' (c) Replace rule 56 by the following text: "Languages of resolutions and other documents "Rule 56 "All resolutions and other documents shall be published in the languages of the General Assembly." 99th plenary meeting I 7 December 1980 35/220. Emoluments of and pension scheme for the members of the International Court of Justice A EMOLUMENTS The General Assembly. Recalling its resolutions 3537 B (XXX) of 17 Decem- ber 1975 and 31 /204 of 22 December 1976 on the emolu- ments of the members of the International Court of Justice, Having considered the report of the Secretary- General"1 and the related report of the Advisory Com- mittee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions/• l. Decides that, with effect from I January I 98 I, the annual salary of the members of the International Court of Justice shall be $70,000: '' A/C.5/35/L.30 "'A/C.5/35/33. . " Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fifth Session. Supplement No. 7A (A/35/7/Add.1-32). document A/35/7/Add.l0. 252 General Assembly-Thirty-fifth Session 2. Decides to continue the system of interim cost-of- living supplements introduced pursuant to paragraph 2 of General Assembly resolution 31 /204, subject to rebasing and modifying the index used for this purpose in accordance with the suggestion made by the Secretary-General in paragraph 18 of his report; 3. Decides further that the ad hoe judges referred to in Article 31 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice shall receive a fee of $192 for each day on which they exercise their functions and that those ad hoe judges who do not normally live at The Hague shall receive an additional daily subsistence payment equal to one three- hundred-and-sixty-fifth of the interim cost-of-living supplement payable at the time to a member of the Court. B 99th plenary meeting 17 December 1980 PENSION SCHEME The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 1562 (XV) of 18 December 1960, 1925 (XVIII) of 11 December I 963, 2367 (XXII) of 19 December 1967, 2890 A (XXVI) of 22 December 1971, 3193 A (XXVIII) of 18 December 1973 and 3537 A (XXX) of 17 December 1975, on the pension scheme for members of the International Court of Justice, Having considered the report of the Secretary- GeneralRJ and the related report of the Advisory Com- mittee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 84 Decides that, with effect from I January 1981 and notwithstanding any provision to the contrary con- tained in the Pension Scheme Regulations for members of the International Court of Justice, the annual value of all pensions in course of payment as at 31 December 1980, including the pensions of any members of the Court who retire on or before that date, shall be in- creased by 40 per cent, and that the maximum child's benefit payable under article IV, paragraph 1 (a), of the Regulations shall be increased from $860 to $1,200 an- nually. 99th plenary meeting 17 December 1980 35/221. Conditions of service and compensation for of- ficials, other than Secretariat officials, serving the General Assembly The General Assembly, Having considered the report of the Secretary- General, 85 I. Decides that, with effect from I January 1981, the annual compensation of the two full-time members of the International Civil Service Commission and of the Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Administra- tive and Budgetary Questions shall be $67,000, with an additional allowance of $5,000 for the Chairman of the Commission and the Chairman of the Advisory Com- mittee; " A/C.5/35/53. 2. Decides that the compensation and other condi- tions of service of the full-time members of the Inter- national Civil Service Commission and of the Chair- man of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions shall next be reviewed at the for- tieth session of the General Assembly and thereafter normally every five years; 3. Decides that, in between such periodic reviews. the annual compensation shall be adjusted in accord- ance with the procedure described in paragraph 11 of the report of the Secretary-General. 99th plenary meeting 17 December 1980 35/222. United Nations accommodation at Nairobi The General Assembly, Having considered the report of the Secretary- General86 and that of the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme,R' Having also considered the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Ques- tions, 8' Recalling its resolution 32/208 of 21 December 1977, in which it approved the construction of the permanent headquarters facilities for the United Nations Environ- ment Programme at Nairobi, Recalling further section Xl of its resolution 34/233 of 20 December 1979, in which it approved additional office space and conference facilities for the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat), Taking into account that the United Nations accom- modation at Nairobi is the first such accommodation to be established in a developing country, I. Expresses its appreciation to the Secretary- General and the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme for their efforts to provide the General Assembly with a more economical alternative for the accommodation of the United Nations at Nairobi; 2. Decides to approve the proposals contained in the report of the Executive Director and also decides to restore the two major conference rooms as envisaged in the original project, as approved by the General Assembly in 1977, and the necessary adjustment of catering, library and documentation facilities within the total appropriation of 254,944,000 Kenyan shillings ap- proved by the Assembly in 1979; 3. Requests the Secretary-General to proceed, with- out delay, with the construction and to submit a pro- gress report to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session and on an annual basis thereafter until the proj- ect is completed. 99th plenary meeting 17 December 1980 "A/C.5/35/35. "A/C.5/35/35/Add.l. '" Official Records of the General Assembly. Thirty-fifth Session. Supplement No. 7A (A/JS/7/Add.1-32). document A/3'.i/7/Add.11

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