SC.3TheAdvisory Committee recommends approval oftheSecretary-General's estimate of$704,500 fortheRegional Commissions Liaison Office(section 5C). -65--66-Section 6.Department ofInternational, Economic andSocialAffairs 6.6At' informat" posts. andp-2 Departme level) estimate 6.7For theSecr Global s TheAdviProWor1 1/ Su1eme6.5The 2General ofthepr Programme Duringth financed Secretar Advisory Programme Unit's i Secretar theUnit Assembly6.4The thetotal followS: .1$ 55874100 55754200 436121004890000050056800 ...................... ......................Estimate sUbmitted bytheSecretary-General ••••••••••• Actualexpenses 1982-1983 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Estimate recommended bytheAdvisory Committee •••••••• Revised appropriations 1984-1985 Initial appropriations 1984-1985 6.1Theestimate of$55,874,100 forsection 6is$5,817,300, or11.6percent, higherthantherevised 1984-1985 appropriation andincludes resource growth estimated at$681,800 (atrevised i985rates). Asshownintable6.1,therateof realgrowthhasbeencalculated at0.6percentprimarily due t~thedeletion of 1986-1987 non-recurrent itemstotalling $462,200 (atrevised 1985rates). The Advisory Committee notesthattheamountof$462,200 comprises $130,000 for furniture andeauipment, $249,400 fornon-recurrent temporary posts(1P-4and 2General Service) and$82,8QO fortheholding ofameeting ofanadhocexpert group(para.6.12oftheproposed programme bUdget). 6.3TheSecretary-General requests atotalof524established regular budgetposts for1986-1987 comprising 290Professional andabove(1USG,4ASG,8D-2,26D-1, 57P-5,78P-4,66P-3and50P-2/1)and234General Service, including 42atthe Principal level. Thisrepresents anincrease offourpostsover1984-1985 (1P-4, 1P-2/1and2General Service, including 1attheprincipal level). Notemporary regular budgetpostsareshownintable6.5,however, asindicated inparagraph 6.1 above,oneP-4postandtwoGeneral Service postshavebeen requ~sted ona non-recurrent basis. TheCommittee's observations regarding non-recurrent posts arecontained inchapterI,paragraphs 44and45above.6.2Extrabudgetary resources for1986-1987 areestimated at$7,556,700, comprising $2,384,700 forservices insupport ofextrabudgetary programmes and$5,172,000 for sUbstantive activities. Ascanbeseenfromtable6.1,bothfigures showdecreases fromthecorresponding 1984-1985 estimates of$2,439,300 and$5,920,400. With regardtothedecrease of$748,400 undersubstantive activities, theAdvisory Committee notesthatnofurther contributions areforeseen in1986-1987 fora numberoftrustfunds. Inthisconnection, representatives ofthe Secretary-General informed theCommittee thatthedecrease ofextrabudgetary posts (table6.5) ~sprimarily attributable tothisdecline intrustfundcontributions, i.e.anumberofpostscurrently financed fromtrustfundswillbediscontinued. Representatives oftheSecretary-General alsoinformed theCommittee thatthe numberofextrabudgetary postsshownintable6.5for1986-1987 should be 47instead of56.Thefurther decrease relates toninepostswhichwereformerly financed bytheTrustFundforpreparation ofthe1985WorldConference toReview andAppraise theAchievements oftheUnitedNations DecadeforWomenbutwhichhave nowbeentransferred toUNDP.Thesepostswereincorrectly included inthe 1986-1987 totalsofextrabudgetary postsshowninbothtables6.5and6.17ofthe proposed programme budget.6.4Thenewpostsproposed bytheSecretary-General, whichaccount for$464,400 of thetotalresource growthof$681,800 (atrevised 1985rates)(table6.4),areas follows: Programme/new posts Worldstatistics 1non-recurrent P-4post 2non-recurrent General Service posts Programme planning andco-ordination 1P-4post 1P-2post 1General Service post(Principal level) 1General Service postParagraph reference inthe proposed programme budget 6.87 6.101 6.5TheAdvisory Committee hasnoobjection tothenon-recurrent posts(1P-4and 2General Service) requested underWorldstatistics. Asstatedinparagraph 6.102 oftheproposed programme budget, thefourpermanent postsreauested under