tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41731787135466482302024-02-20T07:48:01.657-08:00UNPensionerIndia.comV.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-85143277575949848232010-01-11T03:36:00.000-08:002010-01-11T03:44:11.943-08:00Cause for Celebration - Open Letter to UN Retirees<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">OPEN LETTER (V) TO THE UN RETIREES (1/3 LUMP SUM RECIPIENTS):<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">2010 – THE YEAR OF RECKONING?<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">Dear Colleagues:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">At a time when the world is short of causes for celebration, here comes a candidate.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">It appears that UN Disputes Tribunal (born 1 July 2009) has already cleared no less than 96 cases by the time the year 2009 came to a close! A record of sort!!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">Having used this mode of communication to talk to the retiree colleagues and report on the state of affairs regarding our common cause appeal (Case # UNAT 2009-001), let us now bring you up to date on the so called further developments:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">While our Common Cause Appeal # UNAT 2009-001 has long been submitted (27 Aug/30 Sept 2009) and Respondent’s (UNJSPF) reply received by 28 Oct 2009, we have not heard any news as to when our common cause appeal will be reviewed/hearing scheduled.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">The official website of the UNAT & UNDT (UN Office of Administration of Justice – <span style="color:#0070C0;">www.un.org/en/internaljustice</span>) is seen being built with additional information made available on the internet.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">Recent addition in the website is the listing (or shopping list) of cases considered by UNDT between July and December 2009. There are about 96 decisions/judgements (UNDT/2009/01 to 96); some of the cases were transferred from the earlier avatar JAB. Also, never mind the list misses out at least two cases (UNDT/2009-61 & 62).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">Have reviewed a good randomised sample of 50 cases/decisions/judgements<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>with the following findings:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(a)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">Most of the cases related to appointments, non-renewal of appointments and extension.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(b)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">28 cases were rejected;<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>five cases were recommended for mediation/management evaluation;<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>four cases where further submissions were allowed for consideration or full hearing of the case was recommended;<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>three<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>cases where compensation was recommended; a number of cases were rejected because of procedural lapses.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(c)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">There was a case of sexual harassment and cultural insensitivity involving chief of office, incl a local police complaint by the national staff. Probably due to the uncomfortable nature of the case, mediation and resolution by mutual agreement was recommended.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>However, no compensation for local costs, nor any news what has finally happened.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(Maybe the official is now enjoying a great retirement and/or maybe re-employed as consultant/advisor – the usual revolving door policy or the worldly wisdom:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>politics is the science and art of the possible!)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(d)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">Almost in all complaints about non-renewal, non-promotion, and HR related, it appears that the UNDT had had little influence on the management’s judgement and/or decision.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The best the UNDT could do even in those cases of apparent abuse of authority, only some form of compensation could be offered.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(e)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">Right now there is no information on the results of several mediation efforts recommended.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(f)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">There seems a tendency to accept the management argument/contentions at face value; in other words, UNDT may not be able to do any special independent investigation into such matters, again without calling for help from the management itself!? <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This may also mean: UNDT’s capacity may be limited by design.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(g)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">In one case, the competence and independence of the JAB/UNDT judges were seen questioned, but no resolution!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(h)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">In one or two cases, the counsels for the staff were allowed to withdraw.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(i)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">There was at least one instance where UNDT had to make some modifications/corrections to his/her earlier oral judgement when the same was rendered into written words. </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">Based on these findings, maybe some observations are possible:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.1<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">Since the UN staffs have neither recourse to the independent national judicial process nor any “real” legal defence support, they have to contend with the best of the worst situation at hand. Maybe this caused a majority of cases being rejected outright; or can we say that the UNDT decisions tend to favour management practices without any benefit of doubt to other side.</span></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.2<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">Seen from another angle, complaining staff may have been ill-informed, ill-equipped and ill-prepared in the pursuit of justice. This may be a reflection on the quality of staff recruited/trained and being brought into system in the first place or there are remediable gaps in the HRM practices and other internal systems. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></span></span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">If the new avatar UNDT & UNAT should have any impact in improving the internal justice system and to enhance quality assurance and standards (e.g. transparency, independence, open objectivity, fairness, equity and accountability), we need to see some real breakthroughs in the following areas:</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(a)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">Close monitoring & evaluation of the functioning of the UNDT and UNAT processes and reports prepared every six months and place such findings <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>on public domain;</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(b)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">We need to keep remembering the socially inspired justice template: <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>justice should be seen and should be seen to be done; many a culprit might escape the net, but not single innocent should be punished;</span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(c)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">This monitoring and evaluation<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>should be done, inter alia, in the context of norms described in the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(d)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">A matrix <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>of lessons learnt<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>thru the cases processed by UNDT & UNAT and follow up actions recommended, together with an “action taken report” should be <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>available in the public domain – at least twice a year.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(e)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">An efficient and effective mechanism to review regularly the performance of the UNDT/UNAT judges incl. their judicial erudition, mental propensities, biases, prejudices, etc. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>These are the most important aspects since the judges are appointed by the UN GA and no one else has any supervisory control nor any one person/group/committee seems entitled to judge the quality of their performance.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(f)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">Last but not the least, an effective and sufficient budgetary allocation should be in place to ensure that the new reformed internal justice system is not under-nourished, under-funded and handicapped, and do not suffer from the same kind of resource crunch that afflicted its earlier incarnations. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;">The noble laureate, Amartya Sen, in his latest book “The Idea of Justice” argues that “justice” cannot remain only as an ideal and beyond our grasp, but should actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives and faith in/on the system. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>If this is so, then UNAT and UNDT should be seen qualified/deserving to become beacon of our hopes and should facilitate a holistic approach to the decision-making (both the management and staff have responsibilities too in this area) and help remove at least most of the remediable injustices in the system and also in the convoluted human minds managing/manipulating/controlling the system.</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; ">Jai Ho!</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; ">S.P. Sundaram/V.Muthuswami/G.S. Srinivasan</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12.0pt;">Joint appellants of the Common Cause Appeal (case # UNAT 2009-001)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p> *******</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-56048059516456097322009-12-31T03:24:00.000-08:002009-12-31T03:24:09.705-08:00Letter to UN Retirees on Common Cause<a href="http://www.unpost.org/?p=3505">Letter to UN Retirees on Common Cause</a>V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-27574596360088692432009-11-30T22:19:00.000-08:002009-11-30T22:39:51.643-08:00TED: Ideas worth spreading<a href="http://www.ted.com/">TED: Ideas worth spreading</a><br /><br /><strong>Among many great things that can be learnt from ancient Eastern Wisdom is to gain an understanding for the following human fundamentals:<br /><br />1. Who are we and why are we here?<br />2. What is the nature of human nature?<br />3. How and why should we be related to the planet on which we live?<br />4. How are we to live together satisfactorily and sensibly?<br />5. How are we to develop our individual potentialities?<br />and finally,<br />6. What is the relationship between living beings and nature, and how we nurture this <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">relationship</span>(?), so that we can validate our understanding to the question # (1) above.<br /><br />One of the best choices for the UN retirees (or for that matter any retiree) to rediscover himself/herself and to strengthen our understanding and activity is by honestly answering the above questions.<br />Perhaps, exposure to or participation in the TED group (</strong><a href="http://www.ted.com/"><strong>http://www.Ted.com/</strong></a><strong>) could help to discover ourselves and spread the right message(s) for right living.<br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Jai</span> Ho!</strong><br /><strong>V.Muthuswami/Chennai, India</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong>V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-82264629210144266622009-11-04T21:25:00.000-08:002009-11-04T22:31:36.805-08:00OPEN LETTER TO UN RETIREES (1/3 LUMP SUM RECIPIENTS)<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">Dear UN Retirees (who are 1/3 lump recipients)<br /><br />Probably some of you are aware that a number of retirees submitted a common cause appeal to the Standing Committee of the UNJSPB requesting restoration of full pension once the lump-sum amount + interest get fully recovered by UNJSPF in about 11-13 year period, thus ensuring equity among all pensioners. The Standing Committee turned down the request without </span></span></span><span style="BACKGROUND: yellow"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">even bothering to hear any of the appellants (a requirement under UN Disputes Tribunal)</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"> and decreed that the reduced pension shall remain for life.<br /><br />Disappointed and not convinced of the justifiability of the decision, we have now filed a common cause appeal at the UN Appeals Tribunal as its inaugural case (Case # UNAT 2009-001) of its coming into being with a promise to uphold true justice. Have also appealed for oral hearing when the UNAT is ready to review the case.<br /><br />Our appeal is based inter alia on the following principles:<br /><br />1) As UN agency, UNJSPF regulations, rules and procedures/methods should remain consistent with the foundational principles of the UN, viz. UN Charter and UDHR (especially relevant to equity, fairness and Justice).<br /><br />2) Nowhere in these regulations, forms et al, is there </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span></span>any </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span></span>explicit clause, statement or any mention to indicate life time denial of full pension (for 1/3 lump sum recipients). Is this not a very important element of any rule that should not be left for speculation?<br /><br />3) Pension commutation being a usual procedure in civil service pension schemes, the provision to "commute" - meaning exchange or substitute for another - cannot remain open-ended for life but specifically quantified and articulated. This is not the case with UNJSPF regulations.<br /><br />4) Since the lump sum is recovered by way of reduced monthly pension - what should this requirement </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span></span>be called except "indebtedness to the Pension Fund"? Is this indebtedness any different from any money owed to the Pension Fund under Article 43? If this indebtedness is in any manner different , </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span></span>then why is it not finding a separate/special mention in this Article 43?<br /><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">5) Once the indebtedness to Pension Fund is fully paid, then why should not all pensioners be treated on the basis of equity? Is it something that the lump sum recipients have no business to remain alive beyond the originally estimated actuarial age of life expectancy? Is it not a "remediable injustice" that can be eliminated with reason and good governance?</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-ascii- mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latinfont-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">6)</span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast- mso-fareast-language: EN-INfont-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"> Even the premature death of beneficiaries before they had repaid the lump sum does not drain the fund, since, had they lived their full life, they would have drawn the two-third pension, which is more than the one-third which the Fund doesn't get.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast- mso-fareast-language: EN-INfont-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">7) </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span></span>Contrary to imagined concerns, by restoring full pension to 1/3 lump sum recipients, no one, i.e., those who did not take the lump sum, </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span></span>will not lose one penny.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; ">8) Under the present procedure, the Fund stands to gain an unconscionable amount of gains -- at the expense of a group of beneficiaries -- against all principles of fairness and morality.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-ascii- mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latinfont-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">9) Not confusing </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span></span>the above fundamentals with other fiduciary and economic issues, the real "remediable injustice" can always be addressed within the economic and other operational framework, without sacrificing basics - equity, fairness and justice.</span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-ascii- mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latinfont-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-ascii- mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latinfont-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">Our hope and prayer is that our common cause appeal will be heard expeditiously and real justice is rendered in the not too distant future.<br /><br />Please do share your comments and views as these could be of help should there be an opportunity (which we have requested) of arguing our common cause appeal.<br /><br />S.P. Sundaram/V.Muthuswami/G.S.Srinivasan - Chennai, India<br />Appellants of the Common Cause Appeal and also </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-ascii- mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latinfont-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">on behalf of UN retirees who value life and life's values<br /></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">email: </span></span></span><a href="mailto:vmuthuswami@gmail.com"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">vmuthuswami@gmail.com</span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">; </span></span></span><a href="mailto:vmuthuswami@hotmail.com"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">vmuthuswami@hotmail.com</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; mso-hansi-mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ascii-: minor-latinfont-family:Calibri;font-size:12;color:#0070c0;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-23407703568067498632009-11-03T04:35:00.001-08:002009-11-03T05:41:53.690-08:00UN General Assembly : A/RES/63/253 - Statutes of UN Disputes Tribunal & UN Appeals Tribunal<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:19px;"><b>Notes</b>: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Official website of UNAT still displays the old statute of the former UN Admin. Tribunal. Until it gets updated, you are welcome to refer to the "mother" document here. However, for full text of UN Gen. Assembly Resolution, please "google" UN Document # A/RES/63/253.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:19px;"> ****** </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:19px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace: none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold"; mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Annex I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace: none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold"; mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Statute of the United Nations Dispute Tribunal</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 1</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A tribunal is established by the present statute as the first instance of the twotier</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">formal system of administration of justice, to be known as the United Nations</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dispute Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 2</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. The Dispute Tribunal shall be competent to hear and pass judgement on an</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">application filed by an individual, as provided for in article 3, paragraph 1, of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">present statute, against the Secretary-General as the Chief Administrative Officer of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the United Nations:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) To appeal an administrative decision that is alleged to be in noncompliance</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">with the terms of appointment or the contract of employment. The terms</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“contract” and “terms of appointment” include all pertinent regulations and rules</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">and all relevant administrative issuances in force at the time of alleged</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">non-compliance;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">b</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) To appeal an administrative decision imposing a disciplinary measure;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">c</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) To enforce the implementation of an agreement reached through</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">mediation pursuant to article 8, paragraph 2, of the present statute.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. The Dispute Tribunal shall be competent to hear and pass judgement on an</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">application filed by an individual requesting the Dispute Tribunal to suspend, during</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the pendency of the management evaluation, the implementation of a contested</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">administrative decision that is the subject of an ongoing management evaluation,</span></span><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">where the decision appears prima facie to be unlawful, in cases of particular</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">urgency, and where its implementation would cause irreparable damage. The</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">decision of the Dispute Tribunal on such an application shall not be subject to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">appeal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3. The Dispute Tribunal shall be competent to permit or deny leave to an</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">application to file a friend-of-the-court brief by a staff association.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4. The Dispute Tribunal shall be competent to permit an individual who is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">entitled to appeal the same administrative decision under paragraph 1 (</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">present article to intervene in a matter brought by another staff member under the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">same paragraph.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">5. The Dispute Tribunal shall be competent to hear and pass judgement on an</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">application filed against a specialized agency brought into relationship with the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">United Nations in accordance with the provisions of Articles 57 and 63 of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Charter of the United Nations or other international organization or entity</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">established by a treaty and participating in the common system of conditions of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">service, where a special agreement has been concluded between the agency,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">organization or entity concerned and the Secretary-General of the United Nations to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">accept the terms of the jurisdiction of the Dispute Tribunal, consonant with the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">present statute. Such special agreement shall provide that the agency, organization</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">or entity concerned shall be bound by the judgements of the Dispute Tribunal and be</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">responsible for the payment of any compensation awarded by the Dispute Tribunal</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">in respect of its own staff members and shall include, inter alia, provisions</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">concerning its participation in the administrative arrangements for the functioning</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">of the Dispute Tribunal and concerning its sharing of the expenses of the Dispute</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Tribunal. Such special agreement shall also contain other provisions required for the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dispute Tribunal to carry out its functions vis-à-vis the agency, organization or</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">entity.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">6. In the event of a dispute as to whether the Dispute Tribunal has competence</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">under the present statute, the Dispute Tribunal shall decide on the matter.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">7. As a transitional measure, the Dispute Tribunal shall be competent to hear and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">pass judgement on:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) A case transferred to it from a joint appeals board or a joint disciplinary</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">committee established by the United Nations, or from another similar body</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">established by a separately administered fund or programme;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">b</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) A case transferred to it from the United Nations Administrative Tribunal;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">as decided by the General Assembly.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 3</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. An application under article 2, paragraph 1, of the present statute may be filed</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">by:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Any staff member of the United Nations, including the United Nations</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Secretariat or separately administered United Nations funds and programmes;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">b</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Any former staff member of the United Nations, including the United</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Nations Secretariat or separately administered United Nations funds and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">programmes;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">c</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Any person making claims in the name of an incapacitated or deceased</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">staff member of the United Nations, including the United Nations Secretariat or</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">separately administered United Nations funds and programmes.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. A request for a suspension of action under article 2, paragraph 2, of the present</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">statute may be filed by an individual, as provided for in paragraph 1 of the present</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">article.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-family:'TimesNewRoman,Bold';">Article 4</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. The Dispute Tribunal shall be composed of three full-time judges and two</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">half-time judges.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. The judges shall be appointed by the General Assembly on the recommendation</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">of the Internal Justice Council in accordance with Assembl y resolution 62/228. No</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">two judges shall be of the same nationality. Due regard shall be given to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">geographical distribution and gender balance.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3. To be eligible for appointment as a judge, a person shall:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Be of high moral character; and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">b</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Possess at least 10 years of judicial experience in the field of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">administrative law, or the equivalent within one or more national jurisdictions.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4. A judge of the Dispute Tribunal shall be appointed for one non-renewable term</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">of seven years. As a transitional measure, two of the judges (one full-time judge and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">one half-time judge) initially appointed, to be determined by drawing of lots, shall</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">serve three years and may be reappointed to the same Dispute Tribunal for a further</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">non-renewable term of seven years. A current or former judge of the United Nations</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Appeals Tribunal shall not be eligible to serve in the Dispute Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">5. A judge of the Dispute Tribunal appointed to replace a judge whose term of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">office has not expired shall hold office for the remainder of his or her predecessor ’s</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">term, and may be reappointed for one non-renewable term of seven years, provided</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">that the unexpired term is less than three years.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">6. A judge of the Dispute Tribunal shall not be eligible for any appointment</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">within the United Nations, except another judicial post, for a period of five years</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">following his or her term of office</span></span><b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">7. The Dispute Tribunal shall elect a President.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">8. A judge of the Dispute Tribunal shall serve in his or her personal capacity and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">enjoy full independence.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">9. A judge of the Dispute Tribunal who has, or appears to have, a conflict of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">interest shall recuse himself or herself from the case. Where a party requests such</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">recusal, the decision shall be taken by the President of the Dispute Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">10. A judge of the Dispute Tribunal may only be removed by the General</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Assembly in case of misconduct or incapacity.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">11. A judge of the Dispute Tribunal may resign, by notifying the General</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Assembly through the Secretary-General of the United Nations. The resignation</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">shall take effect from the date of notification, unless the notice of resignation</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">specifies a later date.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 5</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The three full-time judges of the Dispute Tribunal shall exercise their functions in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">New York, Geneva and Nairobi, respectively. However, the Dispute Tribunal may</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">decide to hold sessions at other duty stations, as required by its caseload.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-family:'TimesNewRoman,Bold';">Article 6</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall make the administrative</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">arrangements necessary for the functioning of the Dispute Tribunal, including</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">provisions for the travel and related costs of staff whose physical presence before</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the Dispute Tribunal is deemed necessary by the Dispute Tribunal and for judges to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">travel as necessary to hold sessions at other duty stations.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. The Registries of the Dispute Tribunal shall be established in New York,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Geneva and Nairobi, each consisting of a Registrar and such other staff as</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">necessary.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3. The expenses of the Dispute Tribunal shall be borne by the United Nations.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4. Compensation ordered by the Dispute Tribunal shall be paid by the United</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Nations Secretariat or separately administered United Nations funds and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">programmes, as applicable and appropriate, or by the specialized agency,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">organization or entity that has accepted the jurisdiction of the Dispute Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 7</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. Subject to the provisions of the present statute, the Dispute Tribunal shall</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">establish its own rules of procedure, which shall be subject to approval by the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">General Assembly.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. The rules of procedure of the Dispute Tribunal shall include provisions</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">concerning:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Organization of work;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">b</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Presentation of submissions and the procedure to be followed in respect</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">thereto;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">c</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Procedures for maintaining the confidentiality and inadmissibility of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">verbal or written statements made during the mediation process;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">d</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Intervention by persons not party to the case whose rights may be</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">affected by the judgement;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Oral hearings;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">f</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Publication of judgements;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">g</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Functions of the Registries;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">h</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Procedure for summary dismissal;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Evidentiary procedure;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">j</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Suspension of implementation of contested administrative decisions;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">k</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Procedure for the recusal of judges;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">l</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Other matters relating to the functioning of the Dispute Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-family:TimesNewRoman;">Article 8</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. An application shall be receivable if:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) The Dispute Tribunal is competent to hear and pass judgement on the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">application, pursuant to article 2 of the present statute;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">b</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) An applicant is eligible to file an application, pursuant to article 3 of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">present statute;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">c</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) An applicant has previously submitted the contested administrative</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">decision for management evaluation, where required; and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">d</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) The application is filed within the following deadlines:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(i) In cases where a management evaluation of the contested decision is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">required:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a. </span></span></i><span style=" font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Within 90 calendar days of the applicant’s receipt of the response</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">by management to his or her submission; or</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">b</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. Within 90 calendar days of the expiry of the relevant response</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">period for the management evaluation if no response to the request was</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">provided. The response period shall be 30 calendar days after the submission</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">of the decision to management evaluation for disputes arising at Headquarters</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">and 45 calendar days for other offices;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(ii) In cases where a management evaluation of the contested decision is not</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">required, within 90 calendar days of the applicant’s receipt of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">administrative decision;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(iii) The deadlines provided for in subparagraphs (</span></span><i><span style=" font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">d</span></span></i><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) (i) and (ii) of the present</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">paragraph shall be extended to one year if the application is filed by an y</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">person making claims in the name of an incapacitated or deceased staff</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">member of the United Nations, including the United Nations Secretariat or</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">separately administered United Nations funds and programmes;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(iv) Where the parties have sought mediation of their dispute within the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">deadlines for the filing of an application under subparagraph (</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">d</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) of the present</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">paragraph, but did not reach an agreement, the application is filed within</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">90 calendar days after the mediation has broken down in accordance with the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">procedures laid down in the terms of reference of the Mediation Division.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. An application shall not be receivable if the dispute arising from the contested</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">administrative decision had been resolved by an agreement reached through</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">mediation. However, an applicant may file an application to enforce the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">implementation of an agreement reached through mediation, which shall be</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">receivable if the agreement has not been implemented and the application is filed</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">within 90 calendar days after the last day for the implementation as specified in the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">mediation agreement or, when the mediation agreement is silent on the matter, after</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the thirtieth day from the date of the signing of the agreement.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3. The Dispute Tribunal may decide in writing, upon written request by the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">applicant, to suspend or waive the deadlines for a limited period of time and only in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">exceptional cases. The Dispute Tribunal shall not suspend or waive the deadlines for</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">management evaluation.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4. Notwithstanding paragraph 3 of the present article, an application shall not be</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">receivable if it is filed more than three years after the applicant’s receipt of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">contested administrative decision.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">5. The filing of an application shall not have the effect of suspending the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">implementation of the contested administrative decision.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">6. An application and other submissions shall be filed in any of the official</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">languages of the United Nations.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 9</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. The Dispute Tribunal may order production of documents or such other</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">evidence as it deems necessary.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. The Dispute Tribunal shall decide whether the personal appearance of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">applicant or any other person is required at oral proceedings and the appropriate</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">means for satisfying the requirement of personal appearance.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3. The oral proceedings of the Dispute Tribunal shall be held in public unless the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dispute Tribunal decides, at its own initiative or at the request of either party, that</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">exceptional circumstances require the proceedings to be closed.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 10</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. The Dispute Tribunal may suspend proceedings in a case at the request of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">parties for a time to be specified by it in writing.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. At any time during the proceedings, the Dispute Tribunal may order an interim</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">measure, which is without appeal, to provide temporary relief to either party, where</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the contested administrative decision appears prima facie to be unlawful, in cases of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">particular urgency, and where its implementation would cause irreparable damage.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This temporary relief may include an order to suspend the implementation of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">contested administrative decision, except in cases of appointment, promotion or</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">termination.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3. At any time during the deliberations, the Dispute Tribunal may propose to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">refer the case to mediation. With the consent of the parties, it shall suspend the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">proceedings for a time to be specified by it. If a mediation agreement is not reached</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">within this period of time, the Dispute Tribunal shall continue with its proceedings</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">unless the parties request otherwise.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4. Prior to a determination of the merits of a case, should the Dispute Tribunal</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">find that a relevant procedure prescribed in the Staff Regulations and Rules or</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">applicable administrative issuances has not been observed, the Dispute Tribunal</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">may, with the concurrence of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, remand</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the case for institution or correction of the required procedure, which, in any case,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">should not exceed three months. In such cases, the Dispute Tribunal may order the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">payment of compensation for procedural delay to the applicant for such loss as may</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">have been caused by such procedural delay, which is not to exceed the equivalent of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">three months’ net base salary.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">5. As part of its judgement, the Dispute Tribunal may order one or both of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">following:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(a</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Rescission of the contested administrative decision or specific</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">performance, provided that, where the contested administrative decision concerns</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">appointment, promotion or termination, the Dispute Tribunal shall also set an</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">amount of compensation that the respondent may elect to pay as an alternative to the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">rescission of the contested administrative decision or specific performance ordered,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">subject to subparagraph (</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic"; mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">b</span></span></i><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) of the present paragraph;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">b</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Compensation, which shall normally not exceed the equivalent of two</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">years’ net base salary of the applicant. The Dispute Tribunal may, however, in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">exceptional cases order the payment of a higher compensation and shall provide the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">reasons for that decision.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">6. Where the Dispute Tribunal determines that a party has manifestly abused the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">proceedings before it, it may award costs against that party.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">7. The Dispute Tribunal shall not award exemplary or punitive damages.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">8. The Dispute Tribunal may refer appropriate cases to the Secretary-General of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the United Nations or the executive heads of separately administered United Nations</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">funds and programmes for possible action to enforce accountability.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">9. Cases before the Dispute Tribunal shall normally be considered by a single</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">judge. However, the President of the United Nations Appeals Tribunal may, within</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">seven calendar days of a written request by the President of the Dispute Tribunal,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">authorize the referral of a case to a panel of three judges of the Dispute Tribunal,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">when necessary, by reason of the particular complexity or importance of the case.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Cases referred to a panel of three judges shall be decided by a majority vote.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 11</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. The judgements of the Dispute Tribunal shall be issued in writing and shall</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">state the reasons, facts and law on which they are based.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. The deliberations of the Dispute Tribunal shall be confidential.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3. The judgements of the Dispute Tribunal shall be binding upon the parties, but</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">are subject to appeal in accordance with the statute of the United Nations Appeals</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Tribunal. In the absence of such appeal, they shall be executable following the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">expiry of the time provided for appeal in the statute of the Appeals Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4. The judgements of the Dispute Tribunal shall be drawn up in any of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">official languages of the United Nations, in two originals, which shall be deposited</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">in the archives of the United Nations.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">5. A copy of the judgement shall be communicated to each party in the case. The</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">applicant shall receive a copy in the language in which the application was</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">submitted unless he or she requests a copy in another official language of the United</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Nations.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">6. The judgements of the Dispute Tribunal shall be published, while protecting</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">personal data, and made generally available by the Registry of the Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 12</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. Either party may apply to the Dispute Tribunal for a revision of an executable</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">judgement on the basis of the discovery of a decisive fact which was, at the time the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">judgement was rendered, unknown to the Dispute Tribunal and to the party applying</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:TimesNewRoman;">for revision, always provided that such ignorance was not due to negligence. The</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">application must be made within 30 calendar days of the discovery of the fact and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">within one year of the date of the judgement.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. Clerical or arithmetical mistakes, or errors arising therein from any accidental</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">slip or omission, may at any time be corrected by the Dispute Tribunal, either on its</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">own motion or on the application of any of the parties.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3. Either party may apply to the Dispute Tribunal for an interpretation of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">meaning or the scope of the final judgement, provided that it is not under</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">consideration by the Appeals Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4. Once a judgement is executable under article 11, paragraph 3, of the present</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">statute, either party may apply to the Dispute Tribunal for an order for execution of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the judgement if the judgement requires execution within a certain period of time</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">and such execution has not been carried out.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 13</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The present statute may be amended by decision of the General Assembly.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace: none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold"; mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace: none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold"; mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace: none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold"; mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Annex II</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace: none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold"; mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Statute of the United Nations Appeals Tribunal</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace: none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold"; mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 1</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A tribunal is established by the present statute as the second instance of the two-tier</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">formal system of administration of justice, to be known as the United Nations</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Appeals Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 2</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. The Appeals Tribunal shall be competent to hear and pass judgement on an</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">appeal filed against a judgement rendered by the United Nations Dispute Tribunal in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">which it is asserted that the Dispute Tribunal has:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Exceeded its jurisdiction or competence;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">b</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Failed to exercise jurisdiction vested in it;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">c</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Erred on a question of law;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">d</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Committed an error in procedure, such as to affect the decision of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">case; or</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Erred on a question of fact, resulting in a manifestly unreasonable</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">decision.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. An appeal may be filed by either party (i.e., the applicant, a person making</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">claims in the name of an incapacitated or deceased applicant, or the respondent) to a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">judgement of the Dispute Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3. The Appeals Tribunal may affirm, reverse, modify or remand the judgement of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:TimesNewRoman;">the Dispute Tribunal. It may also issue all orders necessary or appropriate in aid of</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">its jurisdiction and consonant with the present statute.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4. In cases of appeal under paragraph 1 (</span></span><i><span style=" font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span></span></i><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) of the present article, the Appeals</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Tribunal shall be competent:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) To affirm, reverse or modify findings of fact of the Dispute Tribunal on</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the basis of substantial evidence in the written record; or</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">b</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) To remand the case to the Dispute Tribunal for additional findings of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">fact, subject to paragraph 5 of the present article, if it determines that further</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">findings of fact are necessary.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">5. In exceptional circumstances, and where the Appeals Tribunal determines that</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the facts are likely to be established with documentary evidence, including written</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">testimony, it may receive such additional evidence if that is in the interest of justice</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">and the efficient and expeditious resolution of the proceedings. Where this is not the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">case, or where the Appeals Tribunal determines that a decision cannot be taken</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">without oral testimony or other forms of non-written evidence, it shall remand the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">case to the Dispute Tribunal. The evidence under this paragraph shall not include</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">evidence that was known to either party and should have been presented at the level</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">of the Dispute Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">6. Where the Appeals Tribunal remands a case to the Dispute Tribunal, it may</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">order that the case be considered by a different judge of the Dispute Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">7. For the purposes of the present article, “written record” means anything that</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">has been entered in the formal record of the Dispute Tribunal, including</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">submissions, evidence, testimony, motions, objections, rulings and the judgement,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">and any evidence received in accordance with paragraph 5 of the present article.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">8. In the event of a dispute as to whether the Appeals Tribunal has competence</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">under the present statute, the Appeals Tribunal shall decide on the matter.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">9. The Appeals Tribunal shall be competent to hear and pass judgement on an</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">appeal of a decision of the Standing Committee acting on behalf of the United</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Nations Joint Staff Pension Board, alleging non-observance of the regulations of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, submitted by:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Any staff member of a member organization of the Pension Fund which</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">has accepted the jurisdiction of the Appeals Tribunal in Pension Fund cases who is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">eligible under article 21 of the regulations of the Fund as a participant in the Fund,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">even if his or her employment has ceased, and any person who has acceded to such</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">staff member’s rights upon his or her death;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">b</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Any other person who can show that he or she is entitled to rights under</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the regulations of the Pension Fund by virtue of the participation in the Fund of a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">staff member of such member organization.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In such cases, remands, if any, shall be to the Standing Committee acting on behalf</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">10. The Appeals Tribunal shall be competent to hear and pass judgement on an</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">application filed against a specialized agency brought into relationship with the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">United Nations in accordance with the provisions of Articles 57 and 63 of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Charter of the United Nations or other international organization or entity</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">established by a treaty and participating in the common system of conditions of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">service, where a special agreement has been concluded between the agency,</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">organization or entity concerned and the Secretary-General of the United Nations to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">accept the terms of the jurisdiction of the Appeals Tribunal, consonant with the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">present statute. Such special agreement shall provide that the agency, organization</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">or entity concerned shall be bound by the judgements of the Appeals Tribunal and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">be responsible for the payment of any compensation awarded by the Appeals</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Tribunal in respect of its own staff members and shall include, inter alia, provisions</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">concerning its participation in the administrative arrangements for the functioning</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">of the Appeals Tribunal and concerning its sharing of the expenses of the Appeals</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Tribunal. Such special agreement shall also contain other provisions required for the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Appeals Tribunal to carry out its functions vis-a-vis the agency, organization or</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">entity. Such special agreement may only be concluded if the agency, organization or</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">entity utilizes a neutral first instance process that includes a written record and a</span></span><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">written decision providing reasons, fact and law. In such cases remands, if any, shall</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">be to the first instance process of the agency, organization or entity.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 3</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. The Appeals Tribunal shall be composed of seven judges.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. The judges shall be appointed by the General Assembly on the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">recommendation of the Internal Justice Council in accordance with General</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Assembly resolution 62/228. No two judges shall be of the same nationality. Due</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">regard shall be given to geographical distribution and gender balance.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3. To be eligible for appointment as a judge, a person shall:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Be of high moral character; and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">b</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Possess at least 15 years of judicial experience in the field of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">administrative law, or the equivalent within one or more national jurisdictions.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4. A judge of the Appeals Tribunal shall be appointed for one non-renewable</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">term of seven years. As a transitional measure, three of the judges initially</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">appointed, to be determined by drawing of lots, shall serve three years and may be</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">reappointed to the same Appeals Tribunal for a further non-renewable term of seven</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">years. A current or former judge of the Dispute Tribunal shall not be eligible to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">serve in the Appeals Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">5. A judge of the Appeals Tribunal appointed to replace a judge whose term of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">office has not expired shall hold office for the remainder of his or her predecessor ’s</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">term and may be reappointed for one non-renewable term of seven years, provided</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">that the unexpired term is less than three years.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">6. A judge of the Appeals Tribunal shall not be eligible for any appointment</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">within the United Nations, except another judicial post, for a period of five years</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">following his or her term of office.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">7. The Appeals Tribunal shall elect a President and two Vice-Presidents.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">8. A judge of the Appeals Tribunal shall serve in his or her personal capacity and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">enjoy full independence.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">9. A judge of the Appeals Tribunal who has, or appears to have, a con flict of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">interest shall recuse himself or herself from the case. Where a party requests such</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">recusal, the decision shall be taken by the President of the Appeals Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">10. A judge of the Appeals Tribunal may only be removed by the General</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Assembly in case of misconduct or incapacity.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">11. A judge of the Appeals Tribunal may resign, by notifying the General</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Assembly through the Secretary-General of the United Nations. The resignation</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">shall take effect from the date of notification, unless the notice of resignation</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">specifies a later date.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 4</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. The Appeals Tribunal shall exercise its functions in New York. However, it</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">may decide to hold sessions in Geneva or Nairobi, as required by its caseload.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. The Appeals Tribunal shall hold ordinary sessions at dates to be fixed by its</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">rules of procedure, subject to the determination of its President that there is a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">sufficient number of cases to justify holding the session.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3. Extraordinary sessions may be convoked by the President, as required by the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">caseload.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 5</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall make the administrative</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">arrangements necessary for the functioning of the Appeals Tribunal, including</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">provisions for the travel and related costs of staff whose physical presence before</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the Appeals Tribunal is deemed necessary by the Appeals Tribunal and for judges to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">travel as necessary to hold sessions in Geneva and Nairobi.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. The Registry of the Appeals Tribunal shall be established in New York. It shall</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">consist of a Registrar and such other staff as necessary.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3. The expenses of the Appeals Tribunal shall be borne by the United Nations.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4. Compensation ordered by the Appeals Tribunal shall be paid by the United</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Nations Secretariat or separately administered United Nations funds and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">programmes, as applicable and appropriate, or by the specialized agency,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">organization or entity that has accepted the jurisdiction of the Appeals Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 6</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. Subject to the provisions of the present statute, the Appeals Tribunal shall</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">establish its own rules of procedure, which shall be subject to approval by the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">General Assembly.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. The rules of procedure of the Appeals Tribunal shall include provisions</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">concerning:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Election of the President and Vice-Presidents;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">b</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Composition of the Appeals Tribunal for its sessions;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">c</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Organization of work;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">d</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Presentation of submissions and the procedure to be followed in respect</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">thereto;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Procedures for maintaining the confidentiality and inadmissibility of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:TimesNewRoman;">verbal or written statements made during the mediation process;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">f</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Intervention by persons not party to the case whose rights may have been</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">affected by the judgement of the Dispute Tribunal and whose rights might therefore</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">also be affected by the judgement of the Appeals Tribunal;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">g</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) The filing of friend-of-court briefs, upon motion and with the permission</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">of the Appeals Tribunal;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">h</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Oral proceedings;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Publication of judgements;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">j</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Functions of the Registry;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">k</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Procedure for the recusal of judges;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">l</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Other matters relating to the functioning of the Appeals Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 7</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. An appeal shall be receivable if:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) The Appeals Tribunal is competent to hear and pass judgement on the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">appeal, pursuant to article 2, paragraph 1, of the present statute;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">b</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) The appellant is eligible to file the appeal, pursuant to article 2,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">paragraph 2, of the present statute; and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">c</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) The appeal is filed within 45 calendar days of the receipt of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">judgement of the Dispute Tribunal or, where the Appeals Tribunal has decided to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">waive or suspend that deadline in accordance with paragraph 3 of the present article,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">within the period specified by the Appeals Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. For purposes of applications alleging non-observance of the regulations of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund arising out of a decision of the United</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Nations Joint Staff Pension Board, an application shall be receivable if filed within</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">90 calendar days of receipt of the Board’s decision.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3. The Appeals Tribunal may decide in writing, upon written request by the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">applicant, to suspend or waive the deadlines for a limited period of time and only in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">exceptional cases. The Appeals Tribunal shall not suspend or waive the deadlines</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">for management evaluation.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4. Notwithstanding paragraph 3 of the present article, an application shall not be</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">receivable if it is filed more than one year after the judgement of the Dispute</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">5. The filing of appeals shall have the effect of suspending the execution of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">judgement contested.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">6. An appeal and other submissions shall be filed in any of the official languages</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">of the United Nations.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 8</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. The Appeals Tribunal may order production of documents or such other</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">evidence as it deems necessary, subject to article 2 of the present statute.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. The Appeals Tribunal shall decide whether the personal appearance of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">appellant or any other person is required at oral proceedings and the appropriate</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">means to achieve that purpose.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3. The judges assigned to a case will determine whether to hold oral proceedings.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4. The oral proceedings of the Appeals Tribunal shall be held in public unless the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Appeals Tribunal decides, at its own initiative or at the request of either party, that</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">exceptional circumstances require the proceedings to be closed.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 9</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. The Appeals Tribunal may order one or both of the following:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Rescission of the contested administrative decision or specific</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">performance, provided that, where the contested administrative decision concerns</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">appointment, promotion or termination, the Appeals Tribunal shall also set an</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">amount of compensation that the respondent may elect to pay as an alternative to the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">rescission of the contested administrative decision or specific performance ordered,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">subject to subparagraph (</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic"; mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">b</span></span></i><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) of the present paragraph;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">b</span></span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) Compensation, which shall normally not exceed the equivalent of two</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">years’ net base salary of the applicant. The Appeals Tribunal may, however, in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">exceptional cases order the payment of a higher compensation and shall provide the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">reasons for that decision.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. Where the Appeals Tribunal determines that a party has manifestly abused the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">appeals process, it may award costs against that party.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3. The Appeals Tribunal shall not award exemplary or punitive damages.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4. At any time during the proceedings, the Appeals Tribunal may order an interim</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">measure to provide temporary relief to either party to prevent irreparable harm and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">to maintain consistency with the judgement of the Dispute Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">5. The Appeals Tribunal may refer appropriate cases to the Secretary-General of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the United Nations or executive heads of separately administered United Nations</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">funds and programmes for possible action to enforce accountability.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 10</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. Cases before the Appeals Tribunal shall normally be reviewed by a panel of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">three judges and shall be decided by a majority vote.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. Where the President or any two judges sitting on a particular case consider that</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the case raises a significant question of law, at any time before judgement is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">rendered, the case may be referred for consideration by the whole Appeals Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A quorum in such cases shall be five judges.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3. The judgements of the Appeals Tribunal shall be issued in writing and shall</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">state the reasons, facts and law on which they are based.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4. The deliberations of the Appeals Tribunal shall be confidential.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">5. The judgements of the Appeals Tribunal shall be binding upon the parties.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:TimesNewRoman;">6. The judgements of the Appeals Tribunal shall be final and without appeal,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">subject to the provisions of article 11 of the present statute.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">7. The judgements of the Appeals Tribunal shall be drawn up in any of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">official languages of the United Nations, in two originals, which shall be deposited</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">in the archives of the United Nations.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">8. A copy of the judgement shall be communicated to each party in the case. The</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">applicant shall receive a copy in the language in which the appeal was submitted</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">unless he or she requests a copy in another official language of the United Nations.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">9. The judgements of the Appeals Tribunal shall be published, while protecting</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">personal data, and made generally available by the Registry of the Tribunal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 11</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. Subject to article 2 of the present statute, either party may apply to the Appeals</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Tribunal for a revision of a judgement on the basis of the discovery of a decisive</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">fact which was, at the time the judgement was rendered, unknown to the Appeals</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Tribunal and to the party applying for revision, always provided that such ignorance</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">was not due to negligence. The application must be made within 30 calendar days of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the discovery of the fact and within one year of the date of the judgement.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. Clerical or arithmetical mistakes, or errors arising therein from any accidental</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">slip or omission, may at any time be corrected by the Appeals Tribunal, either on its</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">own motion or on the application of any of the parties.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3. Either party may apply to the Appeals Tribunal for an interpretation of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">meaning or scope of the judgement.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4. Where the judgement requires execution within a certain period of time and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">such execution has not been carried out, either party may apply to the Appeals</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Tribunal for an order for execution of the judgement.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Bold"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Article 12</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The present statute may be amended by decision of the General Assembly.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family: TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:TimesNewRoman;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">END</span></span></p>V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-30168638657291937322009-11-01T21:59:00.000-08:002009-11-01T21:59:21.596-08:00Pensionable remuneration - High-Level Committee on Management<a href="http://hlcm.unsystemceb.org/handbook/hr/06/0601">Pensionable remuneration - High-Level Committee on Management</a><br /><br /><strong>Notes:</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Here is the website from the "higher management" of UN on the historical reviews/developments concerning pensionable remuneration, which forms the basis for pension payment calculation.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Hope this site gets up-dated as the information provided herein goes only upto 2006. </strong><strong>Nonetheless, this is an interesting website for those who are interested in knowing what goes on within the corridors of UN, incl its conference rooms.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Appreciate your comments on the contents of the website, in regard to usefulness and relevance. Thanks </strong>V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-56708916995276811792009-10-30T05:55:00.000-07:002009-10-30T06:21:36.063-07:00UNJSPF's Response to Our Common Cause Appeal submitted as of 28 Oct 2009<p align="center" style="text-align:center">BEFORE THE UNITED NATIONS</p> <p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style=";font-family:";"> <p align="","serif"">APPEALS TRIBUNAL<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style=";font-family:";"> <p align="","serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style=";font-family:";"> <p align="","serif"">COMMON CAUSE APPEAL <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style=";font-family:";"> <p align="","serif"">S.P. SUNDARAM (APPLICANT 1), V. MUTHUSWAMI (APPLICANT 2) <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style=";font-family:";"> <p align="","serif"">AND G.S. SRINIVASAN (APPLICANT 3)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style=";font-family:";"> <p align="","serif"">ON THEIR OWN BEHALF AND ALSO ON BEHALF OF OTHER RETIREES<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style=";font-family:";"> <p align="","serif"">APPLICANT<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style=";font-family:";"> <p align="","serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style=";font-family:";"> <p align="","serif"">UNITED NATIONS JOINT STAFF PENSION BOARD<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style=";font-family:";"> <p align="","serif"">RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><u><span lang="EN-GB">Statement of the issue<o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;line-height:150%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 0cm left 36.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">This case concerns an appeal by a number of retired employees of the United Nations and other member organizations, who are now in receipt of pension benefits from the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (“UNJSPF” or the “Fund”). <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The appeal is against the decision of the Standing Committee of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board at its meeting in July 2009 to uphold the decision by the Chief Executive Officer of the Fund to deny the Applicants’ request to end, after a certain number of years, the reduction in the UNJPSF pension benefits of retirees who at the time of separation had exercised the option to commute into a lump sum a portion of their pension benefit entitlement in accordance with article 28 (g) of the UNJSPF Regulations. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-36.0pt;line-height:150%;tab-stops:0cm"><u><span lang="EN-GB">Statement of facts<o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-36.0pt;line-height:150%;tab-stops:0cm"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;line-height:150%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 0cm"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">The three applicants who submitted the appeal on their own behalf and behalf of other retirees have been in receipt of a reduced UNJPSF monthly pension in accordance with Article 28 of the UNJSPF Regulations, because at the time they separated from the service of their respective former employing organizations, they each opted to commute a portion of their UNJSPF pension benefit entitlement into a one-time lump-sum that was payable (and actually paid) to them immediately by the UNJSPF.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;line-height:150%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 0cm"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">In a letter sent to the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) of the Fund on 22 March 2009 (<u>Annex 5</u>), Applicant 1 requested that the reduction imposed on periodic UNJSPF pension benefits on account of a partial lump-sum commutation should be ended "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">once the indebtedness was cleared</i>".</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;line-height:150%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 0cm"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">In an e-mail response sent on 5 April 2009 to Applicant 1 and Applicant 2 (<u>Annex 6</u>), the Fund's CEO confirmed, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">inter alia</i>, that "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">without leaving any discretion to the Fund's CEO, the UNJSPF Regulations require that, for those UNJSPF retirees who opt for the immediate one-third lump-sum commutation of their otherwise payable UNJSPF retirement benefit, the one-third reduction in the benefit payable be applied for the lifetime of the retiree</i>" and that to establish the commutation amount "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">the calculation is done on an actuarial basis</i>". <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The CEO added that Applicant 1 and Applicant 2 were free to lodge an appeal pursuant to Section K of the UNJSPF Administrative Rules.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;color:black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;line-height:150%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 0cm"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Following further communications exchanged between the CEO and Applicant 1, which were copied to a number of other UNJSPF retirees, the CEO received from Applicant 1 a formal request for review by the Standing Committee (<u>Annex 1 of the Applicants’ submission)</u>.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Between 21 May 2009 and 26 June 2009, identically worded formal requests for review regarding the same subject were also received from 40 other UNJSPF retirees. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In addition to the formal requests, the Fund secretariat also received e-mail messages and letters from a number of UNJSPF retirees, expressing their support for the appeals that had been filed.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;line-height:150%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 0cm"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">The Standing Committee of the Fund considered the case at its 191st Meeting held on 15 July 2009 and determined that:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB">a) <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>The decision by the Chief Executive Officer of the Fund to deny the application to end, after a certain number of years, the reduction in the UNJPSF pension benefits of retirees who at the time of separation had exercised the option to commute into a lump sum a portion of their pension benefit entitlement in accordance with article 28 (g) of the UNJSPF Regulations was fully compliant with the relevant UNJSPF Regulations; and </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB">b) <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Reductions in UNJSPF pension benefits on account of optional lump-sum commutations remain in effect for the lifetime of the UNJSPF retirees concerned.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><u><span lang="EN-GB">Respondent’s legal arguments<o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><u><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;line-height:150%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 0cm"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">The following provisions in the UNJSPF Regulations govern generally the partial lump-sum commutation option:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;tab-stops:36.0pt 48.0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style=" line-height:150%;mso-ansi-language:EN-USfont-size:10.0pt;color:black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;tab-stops:36.0pt 48.0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style=" line-height:150%;mso-ansi-language:EN-USfont-size:10.0pt;color:black;">Article 1(f) -</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style=" line-height:150%;letter-spacing:-.15ptfont-size:10.0pt;"> </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:150%;letter-spacing:-.15ptfont-size:10.0pt;">"Commute" shall mean cause to be converted and paid in a lump sum part or the whole of a benefit otherwise payable at periodic intervals, according to the actuarial tables of the Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:150%; letter-spacing:-.15ptfont-size:10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;tab-stops:18.0pt 48.0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style=" line-height:150%;mso-ansi-language:EN-USfont-size:10.0pt;color:black;">Article 28(g)</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:150%;mso-ansi-language: EN-USfont-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> - </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:150%; letter-spacing:-.15ptfont-size:10.0pt;">A benefit payable at the standard annual rate may be commuted by the participant into a lump sum subject to the following limitations and to supplementary article D, where applicable:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 150%;tab-stops:18.0pt 36.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" line-height:150%;letter-spacing:-.15ptfont-size:10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(i)<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>If the rate is 300 dollars or more, the amount of the lump sum may not exceed the smaller of:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 150%;tab-stops:18.0pt 36.0pt 45.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" line-height:150%;letter-spacing:-.15ptfont-size:10.0pt;">(A)<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>The actuarial equivalent of one third of the benefit; or<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 150%;tab-stops:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;letter-spacing:-.15ptfont-size:10.0pt;">(B)<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>The actuarial equivalent of one third of the maximum benefit that would be payable to a participant retiring at the normal retirement age, on the same date as the participant, with a final average remuneration equal to the pensionable remuneration on that date for the top step of level P‑5 on the scale of pensionable remuneration in appendix B below;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 0cm;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt 54.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:150%;letter-spacing:-.15ptfont-size:10.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(ii)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style=" line-height:150%;letter-spacing:-.15ptfont-size:10.0pt;">Nevertheless, if the amount calculated under (i) above is less than the amount of the participant's own contributions, then the benefit may be commuted to the extent of the latter amount;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 150%;tab-stops:54.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;letter-spacing:-.15ptfont-size:10.0pt;">(iii)<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>If the rate is less than 1000 dollars, the benefit may be commuted to the extent of its full actuarial equivalent; if a participant is married, the prospective benefit payable to his or her spouse may also be commuted at the standard annual rate of such benefit.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:54.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;mso-ansi-language:EN-USfont-size:10.0pt;color:black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;tab-stops:18.0pt 48.0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style=" line-height:150%;mso-ansi-language:EN-USfont-size:10.0pt;color:black;">Article 29(c)</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:150%;mso-ansi-language: EN-USfont-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:150%; letter-spacing:-.15ptfont-size:10.0pt;">The benefit may be commuted by the participant into a lump sum to the extent specified in article 28(g) for a retirement benefit.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;color:black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;line-height:150%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 0cm"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">It is therefore very clear that, under the UNJSPF Regulations, when a UNJSPF participant upon retirement makes a personal choice and elects to exercise the option to commute a portion of the UNJSPF pension entitlement into an actuarially calculated lump sum, the resultant reduction in the UNJSPF pension will then remain in effect for the lifetime of that UNJSPF retiree. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It should be noted that such a commutation and the ensuing reduction in the benefit does not have an impact on any potential survivor’s benefits. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>At paragraph 23 of their submission, the Applicants refer to Article 43 of the UNJSPF Regulations (“Recovery of Indebtedness to the Fund”) in relation to the above provisions concerning commutation. Article 43 addresses situations where the Fund makes an (actual) overpayment to a beneficiary and is required to recover the sum paid since there is no entitlement and no payments are due to, or on account of, a UNJSPF participant or beneficiary. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This provision has no relevance to the lump-sum commutation, which provides for the immediate payment of a pension <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">entitlement, </i>rather than one that would otherwise be payable at periodic intervals. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;line-height:150%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 0cm"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">9.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">The UNJSPF is a defined-benefit type pension plan. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In a defined-benefit pension plan the employer promises the employee on retirement a periodic benefit that is predetermined or “defined” by a formula which considers the employee’s earnings history, years of service and age, rather than resulting from what the employee and employer contributed and the investment returns. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Participants in the Fund who are due to be separated from their employing organizations and are entitled under article 28 of the UNJSPF Regulations to receive a retirement benefit upon reaching normal retirement age or those who have reached the age of 55, but have not reached normal retirement age and choose an early retirement under article 29, are required by the Fund to submit their payment instructions on Form PENS.E/7 (<u>Annex 7</u>). <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The form offers participants the option to receive a<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> full</i> pension or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">full</i> early retirement pension as the case may be, or they can receive up to one-third as a lump sum and the balance as a<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> reduced</i> periodic monthly benefit. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Hence, commutation, an option for UNJSPF participants, is a one time, permanent conversion of the right to a lifetime periodic retirement benefit into a lump-sum payable to the beneficiary immediately at the time of separation from service. The sum is calculated on the basis of actuarial factors that take into account relevant interest rates and the beneficiary’s life expectancy, in accordance with article 1 (f) of the UNJSPF Regulations. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Commutation does not create any benefit that might be due but unpaid by the Pension Fund. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The UNJSPF Regulations permit participants to opt for a partial lump sum commutation of the retirement benefit; however, the Regulations also require that the one-third reduction in the benefit is applied for the life time of the retiree.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;line-height:150%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 0cm"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">10.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">As a defined benefit plan, UNJSPF pools assets and shares the assumed collective risk for the eventual UNJSPF pension liabilities among all its participants (as at 31 December 2008 112,804), drawn from the Fund’s 23 member organizations.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The Fund uses those pooled assets to provide benefits to staff members globally (periodic benefits in payment as at 31 December 2008 to 59,945 beneficiaries in 190 countries). The equal contribution and benefit levels are determined without regard to the identity of the member organization that employs the staff concerned.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Likewise, nationality, former duty station or country of residence has no relevance to entitlements under the UNJSPF Regulations. Country of residence is relevant only under the UNJSPF Pension Adjustment System, in case the beneficiary opts for the so called two- track pension adjustment system. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>All UNJSPF participants contribute the same percentage of their pensionable remuneration regardless of their age, length of service, career progress, marital status, whether they have minor children or not, and irrespective of the location of their duty station. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;line-height:150%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 0cm"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">11.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Similarly, the commutation amounts are determined on the basis of factors that account for interest rates and life expectancy for the Fund population as a whole. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The aggregated risk on a collective group basis means that, for example, life expectancy is an average: the actuarial calculations presuppose that some participants will die before, and others after, reaching the projected life expectancy.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Therefore, retiring participants who die shortly after commuting part of their pension into a lump sum realize -at the expense of the Fund - a significant economic gain, which is balanced by those who live substantially longer than the projected life expectancy.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The request of the Applicants would require a fundamental change in the level of contributions from participants and member organizations to fund the type of benefits requested by the Applicants.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Obviously, it would also require changes to the UNJSPF Regulations, which – pursuant to Article 49 of the UNJSPF Regulations - can only be made by the United Nations General Assembly after recommendations made by the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board (“Pension Board”). The UNJSPF system is non-discriminatory and fair to all participants and UNJSPF secretariat administers it in a consistent and equal manner world-wide, without any violation of human rights or ILO Conventions. The request of the Applicants would, in turn, be unfair to those retirees who opted to take the full pension and no lump sum, if the lump sum were to be restored to those retirees who opted for the lump sum as they would be getting an additional benefit - one that has no basis in the current Regulations.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;line-height:150%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 0cm"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">12.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Under the authority of the Pension Board, the Pension Fund is entrusted to provide retirement, death, disability and other benefits and related services to its participants, retirees and beneficiaries. To meet its long-term commitments, the Fund must ensure an adequate level of investment return on its assets while mindful of the approved risk tolerance philosophy and the requirements posed by its liabilities. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The UNJSPF has in place a system for oversight of its assets and liabilities, which includes the Committee of Actuaries. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The Committee of Actuaries consists of seven independent actuaries selected from the five different regions of the world. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In addition to reviewing and approving the actuarial assumptions, which are also reported to the Pension Board and the UN General Assembly, the Committee of Actuaries also analyzes the biennial actuarial valuations of the Fund and advises the Pension Board on other actuarial questions arising out of the operations of the Fund’s Regulations. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>When the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board reviews the actuarial report, it<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>recommends appropriate action, if any, dependant on the results of the valuation. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Several interest groups in the Pension Board, which has a tri-partite membership, regularly propose changes to the plan design of the Fund on the basis of the actuarial evaluation, i.e., actuarial surplus or deficit.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;line-height:150%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 0cm"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">13.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>When administering and managing public funds, the UNJSPF is obliged to rigorously follow its Rules and Regulations in all cases. The Fund cannot assume financial risks and responsibilities other that those that arise on a group basis from service in a UNJSPF member organization with concurrent contributions.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Consequently, and in fairness to all other Fund participants, there is no scope for negotiation with any particular interest group. Neither the Chief Executive Officer nor any other person or entity of the Fund has discretionary authority to waive or modify the pension benefit that is payable to a UNJSPF retiree in conformity with the UNJSPF Regulations, Rules and Pension Adjustment System. UNJSPF retirees have an active voice through FAFICS (Federation of Associations of Former International Civil Servants) which has the right to participate in meetings of the Pension Board and its Standing Committee, as well as other inter-sessional groups of the Board. Indeed, the Applicants could have pursued this alternative avenue if they wished to change the current UNJSPF Regulations.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;line-height:150%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 0cm"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">14.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">At paragraph 29 of the Application, the Applicants have given a number of reasons as to why they opted for commutation of a portion of their pension benefits, including repatriation and resettlement back in their home country, and the fact that they were aware that commutation is a feature of some civil service pension schemes. The Respondent notes that employees of the United Nations who return to their home countries upon separation from service are provided with a repatriation grant to allow them to settle back home. Further, there is nothing in the UNJSPF Regulations, Rules and Pension Adjustment System that gives the expectation that the lump sum that is commuted may be restored; an assumption based on the policy of another entity is therefore erroneous. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Quite clearly, the life-time reduction of a UNJSPF periodic benefit is based on the definition of the term “commute” in article 1 (f) of the UNJSPF Regulations. The Regulations of the Fund and the payment instructions signed by participants are clear about the implications of the option to commute up to one-third of a retiree’s pension benefit: the remainder is paid as a monthly benefit. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;line-height:150%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 0cm"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">15.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">The Applicants have cited as the basis of their request the policy of the Government of India to restore commuted pensions of civilian employees and Defence employees, as well as provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They have also asserted that some of the national civil service pension schemes limit the period of commutation, however, no examples of other national schemes have been provided. The Respondent’s research into the issue has not identified examples of other national schemes that restore commuted portions of pensions. The 1987 Supreme Court Judgment provided by the Applicants (Annex 4) that led to the Government of India’s adoption of the policy to restore commuted pensions does not provide an actuarial basis for the decision. Rather, it is stated at page 4 of the judgment that the Government took the decision “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">as an act of goodwill to pensioners and to extend to them some measure of relief in the evening of their lives</i>”. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Further it should be noted that the Government of India introduced a defined contribution pension system for all new government employees entering government service from 2004 and which from 1 May 2009 has been made available to all Indian citizens aged between 18 and 55. A defined contribution plan does not generally promise a specific amount of benefits at retirement. In these plans, the employee or the employer (or both) contribute to the employee's individual account under the plan, sometimes at a set rate. The value of the account will fluctuate due to the changes in the value of the investments. The main reason cited for the new system adopted by the Government of India was the cost of the defined benefit pension system, which was found to be a huge financial burden. The benefit that the Applicants are seeking to introduce within the UNJSPF, has, therefore, not been included in the new Indian Government national pension system in effect since 2004 for its Government employees.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;line-height:150%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 0cm"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">16.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">The Respondent notes that the only basis to pay UNJSPF benefits is the provisions in the UNJSPF Regulations; no national legislation has any relevance to the Fund, which is a subsidiary organ of the UN General Assembly and which enjoys the same privileges and immunities as the Organization itself. The way to amend the UNJSPF Regulations has been described above. As noted above, the Government of India has taken steps to change its national pension system due to the high cost of the defined benefit scheme that was in place prior to 2004, and which included the feature that the Applicants are seeking to adopt for the UNJSPF. The actuarial implications of the request by the Applicants are likely to be very substantive to the Fund. In addition to inequality it would create, the cost is probably the reason why such proposals have never been advanced in the Pension Board by any constituent groups, including FAFICS. Neither has the Committee of Actuaries made proposals to that effect. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-36.0pt;line-height:150%;tab-stops:0cm"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-;font-family:Times-Roman;">Conclusions and pleas<o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><u><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;line-height:150%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 0cm left 36.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">17.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi- line-height:150%;font-size:11.5pt;">On the basis of the foregoing, the Respondent respectfully requests that the Applicants’ appeal be rejected on the basis that the </span><span lang="EN-GB">decision by the CEO of the Fund to deny the Applicants’ request to end, after a certain number of years, the reduction in the UNJPSF pension benefits of retirees who at the time of separation had exercised the option to commute into a lump sum a portion of their pension benefit entitlement in accordance with article 28 (g) of the UNJSPF Regulations was fully compliant with the relevant UNJSPF Regulations. In addition, the Tribunal is requested to uphold the decision of the Standing Committee to confirm that reductions in UNJSPF pension benefits on account of optional lump-sum commutations remain in effect for the lifetime of the UNJSPF retirees concerned.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;tab-stops:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;line-height:150%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 0cm"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">18.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">The Applicants’ request had no basis in the UNJSPF Regulations, and the Fund is obliged to strictly follow the Regulations. Any deviation would first require a change to the Regulations and those proposals are to be channelled through the Pension Board to the UN General Assembly.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The Respondent respectfully requests that the application be rejected in its entirety.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-36.0pt;line-height:150%;tab-stops:0cm"><u><span lang="EN-GB">Respectfully submitted, <o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><u><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none"> </span></o:p></span></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB">Date: 28 October 2009</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:-9.0pt;text-indent:9.0pt;line-height: 150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB">__________________________</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Bernard Cochemé</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB">Chief Executive Officer, UNJSPF</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:-36.0pt;text-align:center; line-height:150%;tab-stops:0cm"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-line-height:150%;mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-size:11.5pt;color:black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-3133414283001339912009-10-28T21:08:00.000-07:002009-10-28T21:20:20.663-07:00The 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index<a href="http://www.prosperity.com/default.aspx">The 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index</a><br />(click above for a wealth of infn)<br /><br />A most interesting report. Take a good look and try and review the key findings how each of the countries finds itself in relation to chosen other(s)! As you compare yours with several others, this can explain some of our background problems.<br /><br />Happily, India is ranked (45) far above China (75)! You know why, Indians seem more prosperous "spiritually"!<br /><br />Have a nice Day! Enjoy!V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-788705297730223272009-10-28T19:15:00.000-07:002009-10-28T19:19:49.808-07:00Akshya Trust<div align="center"> <a href="http://www.akshayatrust.org/">Akshya Trust</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(Click here if you wish to participate in mitigating one of the worst forms of human sufferings -<br />mentally deranged)<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#660000;"><strong>Of all human pains and sufferings, the most cruel would probably be to suffer from "mental illness", not being aware of oneself, one's conditions and life situation (as you see being described in the above website).<br /></div></strong></span><br /><div align="left"><span style="color:#660000;"><strong>The real life heros are those who are prepared to spare some part of their time, efforts and resources, like what Krishnan of Madurai has been doing here, out of human compassion and kindness for the sake of these people, who are disowned by the society and dispossesed by the cruel acts of institutionalised governance and justice system of this great democracy.<br /><br />As UN Pensioners your kindness and great compassion could help such worthwhile causes to help a helpless fellow human being, to live and pass away in grace and dignity. (By visiting the "Akshya Trust" site, you can have all details). God Bless the helping soul.<br /><br />OM Shanthi</strong></span></div>V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-17372193629619246512009-10-27T21:59:00.000-07:002009-10-27T21:59:40.552-07:00Overview of the UN Global Compact<a href="http://www.unglobalcompact.org/AboutTheGC/">Overview of the UN Global Compact</a><br /> (Please click and open to find the details)<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#993399;"> Notes:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#993399;">Among several worthwhile UN initiatives, this may be one of the useful and beneficial to all (at least for most) world citizens.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#993399;">As long as we "live" in a human frame, we cannot avoid working for livelihood, even just to be alive. </span></strong><strong><span style="color:#993399;">To be alive means to be interacting with others, both sentinal and non-sentinal beings. If we can do this with a conscious awareness of the innate cosmic order, then there could probably be less of a need for conflict in understanding global issues, and greater mutual respect, understanding and accommodation in finding solutions beneficial to all, incl for the planet that is our only home!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#993399;">Please get involved with your contribution, even your healthy mental vibrations would help.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#993399;">Jai Ho!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#993399;">UNPensionerIndia </span></strong>V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-43581617716810083622009-10-26T23:31:00.000-07:002009-10-28T00:00:30.240-07:00Anticorruption and Integrity: ADB fighting fraud and corruption in Asia and the Pacific - ADB.org<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_1pwhCyPkcQw/SrCJcpYg6_E/AAAAAAAAATo/oae05TprqUA/s144-c/Youcam.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 144px;" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_1pwhCyPkcQw/SrCJcpYg6_E/AAAAAAAAATo/oae05TprqUA/s144-c/Youcam.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.adb.org/Integrity/"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Anticorruption and Integrity: ADB fighting fraud and corruption in Asia and the Pacific - ADB.org</strong></span></a><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><br /></strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#003333;">Notes:</span></i></b><br /><br />If there is one single problem that saps human progress and development, that can only be this "learned" disease called "corruption and fraud", normally infect combined with "AIG" parasite (Arrogance, Incompetence and Greed).<br /><br />Our science has advanced over years to prevent, fight and eliminate many of physical/mental/emotional diseases and illnesses that survive because of external sources and environment. There are all kinds of medicines, therapies, exercises, etc. to help mankind.<br /><br />However, when it comes to "corruption and fraud", no medicine or therapy could help, because it is in-born side-kick with our unique human endowment called desire + freedom of choice. In order to cure this difficult/dangerous illness, there is only one solution:<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><b>right-upbringing and right value-based education, that help bring about an equilibrium in our mental faculty to challenge and possibly overcome "likes and dislikes" and its (mind's) ability to see </b></span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><b>"me" in "you" and "you" in "me". </b></span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><b>Fortunately, it is a kind of "new skill" that can also be learnt and imbued willingly and make human beings capable of sensing life fulfilment </b></span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><b>by being corruption/fraud free!<br /></b></span><br />Anyway, please enjoy learning what the Asian Development Bank is trying to do bring about human governance based on individual integrity.<br /><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;">Jai Ho!</span></b></span></div><div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div>V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-84818316787386910572009-10-26T22:37:00.000-07:002009-10-26T22:56:16.210-07:00United Nations Global Issues - Home<div align="center"><a href="http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/index.shtml"><span style="font-size:180%;">United Nations Global Issues - Home</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><br /><a href="http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/index.shtml">www.un.org/en/globalissues/index.shtml</a><br /><strong>Notes:</strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>Needless to be said, there are a number of global issues on which the experience and wisdom of UN retirees could make valuble contribution.<br /><br />Aside from physical and financial aspects, these esteemed retiree groups, rich in collective experience, can think of out-of-box and creative solutions to problems facing humanity today.<br /><br />It is time UN establishes an institutionalised arrangement to tap into those resources. Such avenues will be a win-win situtation; a sense of fulfilment for the UN retirees and a wealth of creative ideas for action to UN at no cost or least costly. Let the UN bureaucracy be creative and open for ways to make this planet a better place to live and pass.<br /><br />OM Shanthi!</strong></span></div>V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-25343604004055611452009-10-07T00:11:00.001-07:002009-10-26T21:53:28.347-07:00<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size:14;">A SUBMISSION TO UNJUSTICE FRONTPAGERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size:14;"><o:p>IN REGARD TO COMMON CAUSE APPEAL TO UNAT</o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size:14;"><o:p>CASE # 2009-001 </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>(S. P. Sundaram – 30 September 2009)</p><p class="MsoNormal">(<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Note</span></b>: <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><b>Sometime ago, Mr Merrill Cassell (former Budget Director of UNICEF) raised some queries questioning the validity of the common cause appeal asking for the restoration of full pension for 1/3 lump sum recipients once the lump-sum got recovered by UNJSPF with generous interest over a period of 11+ years. Our Senior citizen/UN retiree, Mr Sundaram, prepared the following note answering his queries, those of some relevance.</b></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><b>No one can deny the right to any individual in taking responsibility for one's life; and change the mindset from victim-hood to become a co-creator of a just and orderly society, incl. UNJSPF setup, fostering human values of caring and sharing)</b></span></i>. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> <span style=""> </span>Thank you for your coverage of our common cause Appeal, in your website, <a href="http://www.unjustice.org/">www.unjustice.org</a>. You have done yeoman service in highlighting the various developments in detail, to ensure UN justice does not equate to Injustice.</o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> You have rightly quoted extensively from friend Merrill Cassell and his various assertions, based on mere conjecture and “gut feeling” rather than on hard and incontrovertible facts and figures to substantiate or case histories. Rather sad! I hope you will give me space for dissecting his misleading statements.</o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Firstly, I have been in some correspondence with Mr. Cassell. He made the same “judgemental statements” which I seriously countered, for which he is yet to answer me direct, point by point, except to close the discussion with “we agree to disagree”; however, he continues to indulge in “blogging”with imaginary people with the same contested (by me) assertions and pontifications! He may have been a very senior official in the UN family (a fact which he never forgets to project), but that doesn’t make him the “fountain of wisdom”. Nor does one prove a point as fact by simply repeating “it must be true because I say so”<span style=""> </span>I would (as you would, no doubt, too) need actual – not manufactured -- facts and figures from Mr Cassell, especially, from a former Budget Director. </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;">He makes a general statement that the restoration of full pension will not be “financially prudent, ethical or fair”. Come, come, Mr. Cassell, where are the facts? I daresay the facts would prove otherwise. Neither he, nor the CEO of the Pension Fund, whom I had challenged to lay bare all the facts relating to the lump sum operation have come forward except to repeat, parrot-like, the same false assertions and irrelevant sources in support. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;">Take the “not financially prudent” argument. Firstly, there is a document in the UNJSPF records – I have seen it – in which the Fund’s own actuaries, in one of their reviews had stated that the lump sum is fully recovered in 13 years, after which the beneficiaries may be entitled to full pension. If the document exists (and not destroyed) no one dares produce it except being in a state of total denial. If the actuarial review is correct (who will call them to give evidence and spill the beans?), what the actuaries say demolishes the argument “not financially prudent”. Yes, the actuaries who assessed the level of contributions, the level of benefits, the amount of the lump sum and the amount of deductions needed, supposedly correctly, can’t be wrong in this single instance. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;">Furthermore, many Governments, mainly former British colonies, have instituted some sort of lump sum scheme. <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>, for instance, has had the system for over 75 years (during and after British Rule) with the automatic restoration of full pension after 15 years. And mind you, <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>, from the British days, has had a wealth of financial wizards, ace actuaries, legal luminaries and administrative giants (of Mr. Cassell’s ilk, some of whom have since adorned the high offices in the UN and other international bodies) and what they had designed had stood the test of time and the scheme has been financially stable, viable and workable even to the present day. And mind you, <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> has had one of the highest increases in the life expectancy which could have upset all actuarial calculations. What better proof you need to totally discredit the spurious theory of Mr. Cassell et al? <span style=""> </span>To argue that UN Pension Fund is not like other national pension schemes (like the Indian model), but is a different animal,<span style=""> </span>is too frivolous to consider. Furthermore., there is the Noblemaire Principle, the guiding philosophy being that UN staff (naturally, including retirees) terms must be modelled on the best among the national civil services. If the Indian pension scheme’s terms are among the best on offer (there may be others which may even be better), UNJSPF should at least match that, viz., restore the full pension after 15 years. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;">As regards the “not ethical” stand of Mr. Cassell,<span style=""> </span>what kind of ethics are we talking about?<span style=""> </span>The ethics of the UN Pension Fund’s implementation of a policy which is nowhere sanctioned by any of the Fund’s own Rules, or which is in violation of its own “recovery of indebtedness” Rule? Or the ethics of the Fund set up for the benefit of UN Retirees, making money on the backs of some of the beneficiaries? Or the ethics of withholding of vital information on the Actuarial Tables (and actuarial recommendations) governing the commutation of pensions?<span style=""> </span>Or again, the ethics of the Standing Committee of the Pension Board not calling the Appellant to be present at the hearing of the Appeal, or even considering the various points made in the Appeal, or the Committee’s decision based on their citation of Rules which have no relevance to the issue whatsoever? </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;">So much for ethics. As far as the “fairness” issue, it may be relevant to consider that CAFICS (Canadian Association of Former International Civil Servants) set up a Committee of 7 former Senior officials to study in-depth the proposal for the restitution of full pension. One of its findings was that the lump sum option was grossly unfair and that “they would not recommend to anyone to avail of the option” That is a telling statement on the “fairness” of the scheme and its operation! Again, the unfair discrimination between the beneficiaries, the ones who took the lump sum and those (the majority) who didn’t. Some fairness, that is. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;">It may not be totally irrelevant to compare the pension schemes with life insurance policies, although they are operated totally differently. There are some similarities in the operation of the lump sum and the insured amount.. Both are governed by actuarial calculations of life expectancy. In the former case, the money is paid up front and recovery made in instalments (deductions), while in the latter, premium is collected towards the payment of a “lump sum” at death. It is significant that a <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Canadian Court</st1:address></st1:street> ruled that continued collection of premium, in excess of the total amount insured for, is “unconscionable”. Wouldn’t therefore the continued deduction of benefit beyond the date of full recovery of the lump sum be similarly unfair? </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;">Mr. Cassell says that “by offering ‘B’ to anyone opting for ‘A’ would be unfair to those who chose ‘B’”. ‘A” took the lump sum – not a gift, but a kind of debt – and went on re- paying it (with generous interest) in instalments through deductions. When the “debt” is fully repaid, ‘A’ and ‘B’ are on the same footing, able to enjoy their full pension. Where is the unfairness, unless it is in ‘B’’s mind, or ‘B’ doesn’t want to get down from the manger to enable ‘A’ to enjoy equal rights and benefits. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;">The argument that those who took the lump sum to make a killing through investments, a red herring, is not borne by facts. The majority of retirees, as everyone knows, did not, repeat not, avail of the lump sum. Were they stupid to forego the wealth from this goldmine? Obviously not, and one has to conclude that there was no incentive opportunity to invest. Also a survey done sometime ago of those who took the lump sum showed that they mostly took the lump sum to meet<span style=""> </span>some pressing needs at the time of their retirement, relocation and life re-adjustment. So, once again Mr. Cassell has got all his facts wrong. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;">There are many other canards that Mr. Cassell and his likes have let out and all these balloons can be burst with reasonable and logical answers. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;">I hope Mr. Cassell will do us all a favour by also publishing, in his blog, the various arguments against his pet theories, for all to make their own judgement. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;">With many thanks for your forbearance, </p> <p class="MsoNormal">(Sandy Sundaram)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">*********</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">END</p>V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-49670588237539506742009-10-06T08:26:00.000-07:002009-10-06T23:34:25.080-07:00Addendum to Common Cause Appeal to UNAT - Case # 2009-001<div style="text-align: center;">ADDENDUM TO THE UNAT COMMON CAUSE APPEAL SIGNED/SUBMITTED </div><div style="text-align: center;">ON 27 AUGUST 2009 BY M/S SUNDARAM, MUTHUSWAMI & SRINIVASAN</div><div style="text-align: center;">UNAT CASE # 2009-001</div><div><div style="text-align: center;">****</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">SHOULD BE READ IN CONJUCTION WITH </div><div style="text-align: center;">SECTION IV. LEGAL BASIS/ARGUMENT , OF THE ORIGINAL COMMON CAUSE APPEAL</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Para 29.A – “Noblemaire Principle”<br /><br />The pay and emoluments as well as service conditions of the serving staff of the UN family are, among other things, governed by the noble Noblemaire Principle, viz., matching or even surpassing the best conditions offered to staff among the civil services of the Governments of the Member States.<br /><br />29.b Retired staff, as the UN Secretary General, proudly proclaimed thus -----<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold; ">“TO US YOU ARE FORMER INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVANTS ON PAPER ONLY; IN PRACTICE YOU REMAIN VALUED MEMBERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS FAMILY.” </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Further on, he added:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold; ">“ACCUMULATED WISDOM, INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY OF FORMER INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVANTS COMPLEMENT DEDICATION OF TODAY'S UNITED NATIONS STAFF.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>and they are, thus the extension of the currently serving staff and hence the Rules and Terms that applied during their tenure of services with the UN, should logically be extended to their period of retirement. In short, the Noblemaire Principle (or any other service conditions) that were applicable before their retirement should also prevail. We don't suddenly get disjointed.<br /><br />29.c As we all know, some of the National Civil Service Pension Schemes limit the period of commutation to a fixed duration, for those who took the lump sum option, after which their full pension was automatically restored. If the best of the Government Pension Schemes allow for the restitution of the full pension after a period of (actuarially determined) years. these terms should also govern the Rules and Implementation of the UN Pension, according to the coveted Noblemaire Principle. It is not logical or reasonable to argue that UNJSPF is different from national Pension Schemes. While the level or calculation of our pensions may not be the same in every case, the UNMISTAKABLE FACT is that the lump sum practice is identical in all cases. We are here talking only about the lump sum operation and with the application of the Noblemaire Principle, the best terms offered by any of the Governments, should be applied.<br /><br />29.d Hence, our Appeal includes this additional argument: "Don't discriminate between present and former UN staff but treat both categories the same in respect of policy and implementation, governed by the Noblemaire Principle (or any other Terms and Conditions) applicable."<br /> <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">END OF ADDENDUM</div><br /><br /> <br />SIGNED: S.P. SUNDARAM (R#28009) ----------------------------------------<br />(signed by the following signatory as requested by Mr Sundaram who is not in Chennai & unwell)<br /><br /><br /> V.MUTHUSWAMI (R#63374) (Signed)<br /><br /><br /><br /> G.S. SRINIVASAN (R#66715) (Signed)<br /><br /><br />Chennai, India : <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>30 September 2009 (Also Notarised & RECD AT UNAT)</div>V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-65287762299633580782009-10-06T08:22:00.000-07:002009-10-07T00:57:35.851-07:00Common Cause Appeal to UNAT - Case # 2009-001<div style="text-align: center;">BEFORE THE UNITED NATIONS APPEALS TRIBUNAL</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">COMMON CAUSE APPEAL FILED BY</div><div style="text-align: center;">S.P. SUNDARAM (R/28009), V.MUTHUSWAMI (R/63374) & G.S. SRINIVASAN (R/66715)</div><div style="text-align: center;">(SIGNATURES AND ADDRESSES INCL. CERTIFICATION ARE GIVEN AT THE END OF THIS DOCUMENT)</div><div style="text-align: center;">ON THEIR OWN BEHALF AND ALSO ON BEHALF OF OTHER RETIREES WHO</div><div style="text-align: center;">FILED EARLIER APPEALS SUBMITTED TO THE UNJSPB STANDING COMMITTEE</div><div style="text-align: center;">(and whose decision was conveyed in CEO/UNJSPF letter of 20 July 2009) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><b>APPLICANTS/APPALLENTS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">UNITED NATIONS JOINT STAFF PENSION BOARD</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">RESPONDENT</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">(CHOICE OF COUNSEL(S) TO BE DETERMINED and NOTIFIED TO UNAT, AS NECESSARY, INCL ORAL HEARING(S) IN THE PRESENCE OF APPELLANT(S) REPRESENTING THE COMMON CAUSE)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;">THIS APPLICATION SUBMITTED TO THE HONOURABLE</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;"> UN APPEALS TRIBUNAL</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;">TO APPEAL AGAINST THE DECISION OF CEO/UNJSPF</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;">CONVEYED IN HIS LETTER OF 20 JULY 2009 </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;">Message of this application:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;">“Water the root and enjoy the fruit” - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;"><b>********</b></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br />I. INFORMATION CONCERNING THE STATUS OF THE APPLICANTS:<br />II. INTRODUCTION<br />III. STATEMENT OF OUR PLEA/APPEAL INCL EXPLANATION<br />IV. LEGAL BASIS/ARGUMENT, incl. REQUEST FOR ORAL HEARING(S)<br />V. CONCLUSION<br />VI. ANNEXES I, II & III attached<div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">*****</div><br />I. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">INFORMATION CONCERNING THE STATUS OF THE APPLICANTS/APPALLENTS </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">AND REASON FOR MAKING THIS COMMON CAUSE APPEAL:</span></b></div><div><br />1. The appellants (S.P. Sundaram, V. Muthuswami and G.S. Srinivasan) are all UN retirees living in India and leading useful life-styles befitting the organisation’s humanitarian goals with which they were privileged to be associated with in their long working-life. This team also represent a number of UN retirees who had earlier submitted in May/June 2009 similarly worded appeals to the UNJSPB Standing Committee (see Annexe 1).</div><div><br />2. Briefly stated, these retirees are concerned with and aggrieved by the lack of transparency, equity, fairness and natural justice in the manner in which UNJSPF has been treating the retirees – especially those who had opted for partial (1/3) lump sum commutation and reduced pension as opposed to regular pensioners. In response to recent appeals by many pensioners, UNJSPF/CEO decreed unjustly that the reduced pension should remain for “life time” though the lump sum gets recovered fully with sumptuous interest over a time period of 11-13 years. Neither explanation, nor any justification for the decision was offered, excepting for quoting the same articles 1(f) and 28(g) of UNJSPF Regulations that were earlier questioned in regard to their import and philosophy in the context of equal rights guaranteed by UDHR.</div><div><br />3. In the absence of any written contract/agreement between the two parties – UNJSPF and the retirees – in respect to life-time reduced pension, the denial to restore full pension even after the full recovery of lump sum + interest over years should be seen untenable, as this amounts to denial of equal rights and principle of equity as envisaged by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).<br /><br /></div><div>II. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><b><br /></b></span>4. Many civilized/enlightened civil service pension systems consider the “pension” as deferred salary payments and valuable right in recognition of long years of devoted loyal service to the sovereign state. All the three branches of governance – legislative, executive and judiciary – have all recognised the importance of a well-developed civil service pension as sine qua non for ensuring an independent, efficient, effective, viable and continuing loyal civil service for good governance. Duties, rights and privileges of such civil service employees and retirees are protected by suitable laws of the country. <br /><br /></div><div>5. It is a common feature of any enlightened pension system to include the facility of commutation of a part of the pension into lump sum on retirement in order to overcome the sudden loss of regular monthly income and to facilitate into settling in retirement without any problem. Also, it is common that reduced monthly pension (after commutation) gets restored after a pre-determined period within which the commuted lump sum stands recovered with whatever nominal interest rate applicable as per the system.<br /><br /></div><div>6. Important to remember that not only is the international (UN) civil service (even after retirement) excluded from any national legal system, but also by being restricted from access to national courts to seek legal remedy. Additionally, the staff (and retirees) of international organizations comprise of people from various backgrounds, cultural and traditional systems and domestic legal systems, and all respect fundamental human values to equity, equality, fairness, and justice.<br /><br /></div><div>7. Such a situation makes it imperative for the international organizations to establish and maintain a well-balanced system of justice to avoid discrimination, inequity and unfairness in the treatment of issues concerning staff and retirees.<br /><br /></div><div>8. UN in its wisdom declared that the right to human development rests on the importance and application of the principle of equity, fairness and natural justice at both the national and international levels (see UN Charter, UDHR, UN doc E/CN.4/2003/25 on the right to (human) development and related documents on the subject).<br /><br /></div><div>9. UN Administrative Tribunals frequently referred to such foundational treaties, declarations and conventions as UN Charter and Universal Declaration of Human Rights as sources of law. Another source of law is the general principles of law comprising not just the general principles of administrative laws and rules of the member states but also the case laws and decisions of international tribunals.<br /><br /></div><div>10. By implication, not only UN urge states to comply with the internationally recognised standards of justice, such as due process and fundamental human rights, equity, fairness and natural justice, but the UN organization should also adhere to these standards within its own legislative, judicial and administrative systems.<br /><br /></div><div>11. It is therefore imperative that the regulations, rules and procedures of UN and family organisations, incl. UNJSPF should be in full accord with and in harmony with the UDHR and UN Charter. In other words, UN and its family organisations should remain models of good governance for all member states to emulate and build a sustainable human development matrix.<br /><br /></div><div>III. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">STATEMENT OF OUR PLEA/APPEAL INCL EXPLANATION</span></b><br /><br /></div><div>12. <b>General areas of concern</b>:<br /><br /></div><div>12.1 Ensure that the UNJSPF’s regulations, rules, and procedures are consistent with and harmonious to the fundamentals of UN charter and Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Review and remove all inconsistencies, convoluted wordings, and self-contradictions in the UNJSPF regulations etc. which can only breed unilateralism and arbitrariness in its handling of pensioners’ affairs. For example, the UNJSPF regulation article 1(f) and 28(g), read in conjunction with the article 43, cannot be construed/interpreted as life-time enforcement of reduced pension for 1/3 lump-sum recipients.<br /><br /></div><div>12.2 UNJSPF should become more client-friendly in dealing with retirees, signified by transparency and accountability and respectful of UDHR’s “right to information”. For example, UNJSPF could make information readily available thru its website on the fiduciary tables, and fiduciary recommendations, including those recommendations not accepted by the UNJSPB and reasons for such non-acceptance. Most national pension schemes like Indian (Federal and State) Governments Civil Pension Fund publish commutation tables and allied documents, including updates. on the public domain web sites.<br /><br /></div><div>12.3 In this broadband internet age, it should be easy to be honest, transparent and accountable. As such, the new age growing technology and inter-active websites should be employed to serve pensioners and beneficiaries effectively. For example, by introducing suitably designed e-governance system the participants/pensioners/beneficiaries should be able to contact and get answers/resolution of issues in a cost-effective manner, and should be able to review their own files for completeness or any requirement for submitting additional information.<br /><br /></div><div>13.<b> Specific pleas/appeals for redress</b>:<br /><br />We find that the decision of the Standing Committee of the Pension Board was based on a cursory and incomplete consideration of our Appeal and is therefore unsatisfactory. Our contention is based on the following:<br /><br />13.1 There is no, repeat no, Rule or clause in the UNJSPF Regulations categorically stating, even by implication, that the lump sum option binds the beneficiary to a deduction for life. There is, therefore, no justification for any contrary interpretation and/or practice.<br /><br />13.2 The definition of "commutation" (Article 1f) also does not make such a definite statement. Furthermore, the qualification, "in accordance with the Actuarial Tables", we believe, also does not sanction the UNJSPF’s current practice of life-time enforcement of reduced pension. We would like to see what the Actuarial Tables actually says, and how it could be interpreted to mean that the commutation would be for life.<br /><br />13.3 The undertaking signed by the beneficiary at the tense time of retirement is no legal contract or agreement in that it is merely an information sheet/instruction for payment (UNJSPF Form E/7) not signed by BOTH the parties in the presence of witnesses. Furthermore, the explanatory note under A(3) of the same form (Form E/7) contains factual misrepresentation, for example, quoting articles 28(d) and 28(e) which have no connection whatsoever and therefore, irrelevant.<br /><br />13.4 There is no rationale behind the exclusion of the lump sum as a form of indebtedness. In point of fact and legal basis the Article 43 of UNJSPF Regulation should be applied, in letter and spirit, for the recovery of the lump sum as well – up to the amount of indebtedness, and no more.<br /><br />13.5 Commutation of the pension is limited to a certain number of years in almost all National Civil Service Pension Schemes and UNJSPF policies and practices should also conform to such normal universal practice.<br /><br />13.6 It is also significant that whereas most of the Regulations of UNJSPF have been amended over the years, to take account of changed circumstances, the lump sum provision and practices alone have remained constant, despite vastly changed circumstances like life expectancy, impacting on the calculation of lump sum commutation, review towards recovery amount and period of recovery. This practice is neither consistent nor fair. On the basis of such a periodic review, amounts of lump sum would have to be recalculated (upwards) and/or the level of deduction would have to be revised (lowered).<br /><br />13.7 The continuation of the deductions beyond the full recovery of the lump sum (with interest and charges) creates two kinds of unequal beneficiaries - the ones who took the lump sum and the ones who didn't. This will amount to discrimination and would violate the Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and UN Charter specifically according equity, fairness and justice. Furthermore, the UNJSPF practices can also be proved as perpetrating non-compliance of other aspects of Human Rights.<br /><br />13.8 The refusal of our plea purely on economic grounds would be improper as well, since this is a matter of fairness and justice, of equity and ethics and requires utmost precedence and significance towards establishing a system of fair and equitable social justice.<br /><br />13.9 On condition of acknowledging fairness, equity and justice, it is still possible to strive for any suitable solution to ensure aspects of economic viability and long term sustainability of the UN Pension system. We are indeed open for dialogue and mutually beneficial arrangements. <br /><br />IV. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">LEGAL BASIS/ARGUMENT, incl. REQUEST FOR ORAL HEARING(S), IF NECESSARY:</span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><b><br /></b></span>14. According to the ancient eastern traditional wisdom, “neeti” and “nyaya” (justice and fairness) are two sides of the same coin and they need to be reflecting harmony and coherence to ensure social realization of what is seen as a just institutional-arrangement to implement justice based on equity and fairness. The greatest injustice is when people cannot achieve their just goals because someone else with authority (e.g. UNJSPF et al) stops them.<br /><br /></div><div>15. Simply said, our legal basis and argument for the pleas explained above is nothing other than the foundational principles on which UN and its family of organisations should exist, function and sustain, viz. UN Charter and Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The independent regulations, rules and procedures of each of the family organisations should not be ultra vires to those fundamental constitutional statutes (viz. UN Charter and UDHR).<br /><br /></div><div>16. The fact that such gross violations were allowed for decades of UN life should say something of its internal justice system, which, we pray and hope, the revitalised new avatar UN Appeals Tribunal will soon redress, and stop the delay and denial of natural justice.<br /><br /></div><div>17. UNJSPF financial infrastructure is based on mandated contributions from staff and double that amount from the employer organisations, to be prudently invested and managed in such a manner as to provide a well-defined pension benefits to the retirees during their life time and also those identified as beneficiaries like the surviving spouses, minor/disabled children, etc. By refusing to restore full pension to the 1/3 lump sum recipients/beneficiaries, when eligible, not only the beneficiaries are denied the rights but the employer organizations are in a sense “short-changed”.<br /><br /></div><div>18. While the benefits to the legally accepted beneficiaries are well-defined and represent a logical sense of equity and fairness, the retiree benefits do not manifest any sense of equity and fairness, especially for those of 1/3 lump sum recipients after full reimbursement to the UNJSPF of such lump sums plus generous interests over a period of time (eleven years or so). Refusal to restore full pension after the full recovery + interest on lump sums amounts to non-compliance of principles of laws concerning equity and fairness under any legal system.<br /><br /></div><div>19. Your kind attention is invited to the joint common cause appeal submitted earlier to the Standing Committee of the UNJSPB (Annex I), wherein we have noted how different articles of UDHR for basic fundamental rights – viz. Equity, equality, fairness and justice – appear to be not being applied by the UNJSPF in the treatment of some of the UN pensioners (viz. 1/3 lump sum recipients).<br /><br /></div><div>20. The two annexes attached to the appeal to the UNJSPB Standing Committee (supporting document as Annexe 1 for this appeal) indicate how the 1/3 lump-sum paid to those retirees get recovered over the period of 11 or about years.<br /><br /></div><div>21. It is sincerely believed that UNJSPF does not intend to punish the retirees who happen to enjoy good health and long life beyond the anticipated fiduciary age of life expectancy.<br /><br /></div><div>22. As said earlier, the UNJSPF regulations, rules and procedures, specifically relating to the pleas contained in this appeal, in our humble opinion, are so flawed and dysfunctional as to allow all kinds interpretations, much of those UNJSPF interpretations remain subjective and contrary to natural justice.<br /><br /></div><div>23. In fact, the co-joined articles/rules 1(f) and 28(g) on commuted pension payments read in conjunction with article 43 – recovery of indebtedness to the fund – should imply that the lump-sum payments (as commuted pension) is to be regarded as a calculated risk-based loan or advance payment to the retiree, recoverable with interest (more than average market rate) thru monthly deductions by way of reduced pension. Corollary to this situation, based on equity and fairness, full pension should be restored once lump sum plus generous interest becomes fully recovered/reimbursed to the UNJSPB.<br /><br /></div><div>24. Denial of full-pension for life-time can never be justified in the name of equity and fairness, except to say that UNJSPF does not expect its pensioners to live beyond the age of life expectancy of its fiduciary experts. Longer the 1/3 lump sum recipients live better are the returns on UNJSPF’s investments by way of reduced pension to those retirees for life, to which the UNJSPF is not legally or morally entitled beyond the true actuarial period used for commutation of the initial lump sum.<br /><br /></div><div>25. It is common practice with UNJSPF, its fiduciary findings and recommendations, including final decisions that affect the life of pensioners are never made available in the public domain – this is again contrary to the requirement of a responsible organisation based on accountability and transparency. In the absence of such openness and transparency, those who took the 1/3 lump sum are forced to sign an undertaking (not a contractual obligation) with facts held back. The suggestion to consult with Staff Pension Committee will only be leading the blind by the blind. We feel that UNJSPF is the sole body that should clear all doubts and clarify any concerns.<br /><br /></div><div>26. In fact, our specific pleas can be seen as “remediable injustices” which can be eliminated easily provided we ensure genuine democracy in the UNJSPF bureaucracy.<br /><br /></div><div>27. Around the world, especially in the largest democracy of the world representing one-sixth of humanity (India), lump-sum commutation and restoration of full pension after 15 years has long been in vogue and fully endorsed by the highest court of justice in that country (Supreme Court of the Republic of India – Judgement given on 9 December 1986 on common cause writ petition # 3958-61 of 1983). As full details of this judgement are freely available in the public domain websites of the Indian Supreme Court and Indian Government, it is not our intention to tire the UN Appeal Judges and save time and information/paper overload. It is our understanding that India is not alone in this regard.<br /><br /></div><div>28. Assuming that the acceptance of the restoration of full pension for lump sum recipients after an agreed period, in the context of increasing longevity of pensioners, may cause fiduciary imbalance as per present methods, this situation can be expertly reviewed and remedied; and necessary new formulas can be established thereby all pensioners – lump-sum recipients, full pensioners, et al – can be provided benefits that become hallmark of equity and fairness.<br /><br /></div><div>29. Arguments that such lump-sum recipients had the undue advantage of investing large funds for huge profits, etc. (in the western style) are simply not proven by facts; based on our own understanding and broad based survey of pensioners, it was revealed that the pensioners were in fact lured into lump-sum option inter alia for the following compelling and compassionate reasons:<br /><br /></div><div>• To offset sudden loss of regular income upon retirement and the anxiety for repartition and resettlement of a life befitting a UN staff with core values intact even in retirement;<br /><br /></div><div>• To defray cost of expensive medical treatments, long postponed; to build a living place; to marry off grown up children;<br /><br /></div><div>• Anxiety of growing old to meet all family commitments before the final hour arrives.<br /><br /></div><div>• Fear of any instability in the UN pension system, despite the fact that UNJSPF is known for sound financial management within UN family.<br /><br />• Some of the retirees being aware of the normal feature of many enlightened civil service pension systems were of the view that the commutation of a part of pension as lump sum + reduced monthly pension, will eventually be followed by restoration of full pension once the commuted lump sum + interest got fully recovered.<br /><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">REQUEST FOR ORAL HEARING(S):<br /></span></b><br />30. As can be seen from the appeal, we have raised a number of constitutional questions as to why the UN agencies’ independent regulations, rules and procedures should NOT be inconsistent with the fundamentals of the UN organisation. In our humble opinion, it will be necessary to understand the depth and import of such “essentials” and such a situation would be better felt/explained thru oral hearing(s). It is also our understanding that the appellants do have the right to bring in outside legal advice/counsel to better present our case.</div><div><br />V. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">CONCLUSION</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><br /></span></b>31. In celebrating the Human Rights Day (20 December 2008), the UN Secretary General declared that “we can only honour the towering vision of that inspiring document (UDHR) when its principles are fully applied everywhere for everyone”.<br /><br /></div><div>32. The sacred need and responsibility of UN and its associated agencies/organizations to abide by and operate in accordance with the fundamental principles enshrined in the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights cannot be over-stated. Their legislative, executive, judiciary and administrative bodies should not only be influenced by those fundamental principles, but their day-to-day functioning should remain as role models for good governance for the rest of the world governments.<br /><br /></div><div>33. Reposing our faith in the letter and spirit of those great practical principles, we look to the UN Appeals Tribunal to uphold those values and declare its decision reflecting the removal/elimination of the “remediable injustice” done to the 1/3 lump-sum recipients of UN pensioners by restoring full pension after the lump sum PLUS generous interest have been fully recovered.<br /><br /></div><div>VI. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS AS ANNEXES</span></b>:<br /><br /></div><div>(i) Copy of Common appeal/request submitted (individually) during May/June 2009 to the Standing Committee to the UNJSPB for the restoration of full pension for the one-third lump sum recipients after a pre-determined period of commutation.<br /><br /></div><div>(ii) Letter from CEO/UNJSPF of 20 July 2009 stating there should be no change in the reduced pension for life time in the case of 1/3 lump sum recipients.<br /><br /></div><div>(iii) Information sheet on the appellants of this appeal in response to the requirements stated in the UNAT rules.<br /><br />(iv) Respecting technology and environmental impact, and especially our faith on the wisdom of UNAT jurisprudence, we do not attach too many documents, but seek indulgence of careful attention to the Indian Government’s pensioners' portal (http://pensionersportal.gov.in) and Indian Supreme Court judgement of 9 December 1986 on the Common Cause Appeal writ petition # 3958-61 of 1983.<br /><br /><br />(Go to next page)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS APPEAL</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>UN <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>United Nations Organisation<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>UNJSPF <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>UNJSPB <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>UDHR <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Universal Declaration of Human Rights<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>UNAT <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>United Nations Appeals Tribunal<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>UNC <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>United Nations Charter<br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>SIGNATURES OF APPELLANTS AND RETIREE #, year of retirement, incl ADDRESSES:<br />(original hard copy documents signed by all three signatories)<br /><br /></div><div><br />S.P. Sundaram <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>V.Muthuswami <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>G.S. Srinivasan<br />R/28009 (1983) <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>R/63374 (1997) <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>R/66715 (1998)<br /><br /></div><div>Signed at Bangalore/Chennai, India,</div><div><br />on: 27 August 2009<br /><br /><br />Certification of Indian Govt. 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SUNDARAM (R/28009), V.MUTHUSWAMI (R/63374) & G.S. SRINIVASAN (R/66715)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >(SIGNATURES AND ADDRESSES INCL. CERTIFICATION ARE GIVEN AT THE END OF THIS DOCUMENT)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >ON THEIR OWN BEHALF AND ALSO ON BEHALF OF OTHER RETIREES WHO<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >FILED EARLIER APPEALS SUBMITTED TO THE UNJSPB STANDING COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >(and whose decision was conveyed in CEO/UNJSPF letter of 20 July 2009) <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><u><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >APPLICANTS/APPALLENTS<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >UNITED NATIONS JOINT STAFF PENSION BOARD<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><u><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >RESPONDENT</span></u></b><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >(CHOICE OF COUNSEL(S) TO BE DETERMINED and NOTIFIED TO UNAT, AS NECESSARY, INCL ORAL HEARING(S) IN THE PRESENCE OF APPELLANT(S) REPRESENTING THE COMMON CAUSE)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="border: medium none ; border-collapse: collapse;" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid black; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 478.8pt;" valign="top" width="638"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >THIS<span style=""> </span>APPLICATION SUBMITTED TO THE HONOURABLE UN APPEALS TRIBUNAL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >TO APPEAL AGAINST THE DECISION OF CEO/UNJSPF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >CONVEYED IN HIS LETTER OF 20 JULY 2009 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:12;" >Message of this application:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:12;" >“Water the root and enjoy the fruit”<span style=""> </span>-<span style=""> </span>Maharishi Mahesh Yogi <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style="">I.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >INFORMATION CONCERNING THE STATUS OF THE APPLICANTS:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style="">II.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >INTRODUCTION<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style="">III.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >STATEMENT OF OUR PLEA/APPEAL INCL EXPLANATION<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style="">IV.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >LEGAL BASIS/ARGUMENT, incl. REQUEST FOR ORAL HEARING(S)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style="">V.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >CONCLUSION<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style="">VI.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >ANNEXES I, <span style=""> </span>II & III attached<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >*****<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style="">I.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><u><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style=""> </span>INFORMATION CONCERNING THE STATUS OF THE APPLICANTS/APPALLENTS AND REASON FOR MAKING THIS COMMON CAUSE APPEAL:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >1.<span style=""> </span>The appellants (S.P. Sundaram, V. Muthuswami and G.S. Srinivasan) are all UN retirees living in India and leading useful life-styles befitting the organisation’s humanitarian goals with which they were privileged to be associated with in their long working-life. This team also represent a number of UN retirees who had earlier submitted in May/June 2009 similarly worded appeals to the UNJSPB Standing Committee (see Annexe 1).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >2. <span style=""> </span>Briefly stated, these retirees are<span style=""> </span>concerned with and aggrieved by <span style=""> </span>the lack of transparency, equity, fairness and natural justice in<span style=""> </span>the manner in which UNJSPF has been treating the retirees – especially those who had opted for partial (1/3) lump sum commutation and reduced pension as opposed to regular pensioners. In response to recent appeals by many pensioners, UNJSPF/CEO decreed unjustly that the reduced pension should remain for “life time” though the lump sum gets recovered fully with sumptuous interest over a time period of 11-13 years.<span style=""> </span>Neither explanation, nor any justification for the decision was offered, excepting for quoting the same articles 1(f) and 28(g) of UNJSPF Regulations that were earlier questioned in regard to their import and philosophy in the context of equal rights guaranteed by UDHR.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >3.<span style=""> </span>In the absence of any written contract/agreement between the two parties – UNJSPF and the retirees – in respect to life-time reduced pension, the denial to restore full pension even after the full recovery of lump sum + interest over years should be seen untenable, as this amounts to denial of equal rights and principle of equity as envisaged by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style="">II.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><u><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >INTRODUCTION<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >4.<span style=""> </span>Many civilized/enlightened civil service pension systems consider the “pension” as deferred salary payments and valuable right in recognition of long years of devoted loyal service to the sovereign state. All the three branches of governance – legislative, executive and judiciary – have all recognised the importance of a well-developed civil service pension as<i style=""> sine qua non</i> for ensuring an independent, efficient, effective, viable and continuing loyal civil service for good governance.<span style=""> </span>Duties, rights and privileges of such civil service employees and retirees are protected by suitable laws of the country.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >5.<span style=""> </span>It is a common feature of any enlightened pension system to include the facility of commutation of a part of the pension into lump sum on retirement in order to overcome the sudden loss of regular monthly income and to facilitate into settling in retirement without any problem.<span style=""> </span>Also, it is common that reduced monthly pension (after commutation) gets restored after a pre-determined period within which the commuted lump sum stands recovered with whatever nominal interest rate applicable as per the system. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >6.<span style=""> </span>Important to remember that not only is the international (UN) civil service (even after retirement) excluded from any national legal system, but also by being restricted from access to national courts to seek legal remedy.<span style=""> </span>Additionally, the staff (and retirees) of international organizations comprise of people from various backgrounds, cultural and traditional systems and domestic legal systems, and all respect fundamental human values to equity, equality, fairness, and justice.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >7.<span style=""> </span>Such a situation makes it imperative for the international organizations to establish and maintain a well-balanced system of justice to avoid discrimination, inequity and unfairness in the treatment of issues concerning staff and retirees.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >8.<span style=""> </span>UN in its wisdom declared that the right to human development rests on the importance and application of the principle of equity, fairness and natural justice at both the national and international levels (see UN Charter, UDHR, UN doc E/CN.4/2003/25 on the right to (human) development and related documents on the subject).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >9.<span style=""> </span>UN Administrative Tribunals frequently referred to such foundational treaties, declarations and conventions as UN Charter and Universal Declaration of Human Rights as sources of law.<span style=""> </span>Another source of law is the general principles of law comprising not just the general principles of administrative laws and rules of the member states but also the case laws and decisions of international tribunals.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >10.<span style=""> </span>By implication, not only UN urge states to comply with the internationally recognised standards of justice, such as due process and fundamental human rights, equity, fairness and natural justice, but the UN organization should also adhere to these standards<span style=""> </span>within its own legislative, judicial and administrative systems. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >11.<span style=""> </span>It is therefore imperative that the regulations, rules and procedures of UN and family organisations, incl. UNJSPF should be in full accord with and in harmony with the UDHR and UN Charter. <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>In other words, UN and its family organisations should remain models of good governance for all member states to emulate and build a sustainable human development matrix. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style="">III.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><u><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >STATEMENT OF OUR PLEA/APPEAL INCL EXPLANATION<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >12.<span style=""> </span><b style="">General areas of concern:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2.85pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >12.1<span style=""> </span>Ensure that the UNJSPF’s regulations, rules, and procedures are consistent with and harmonious to the fundamentals of UN charter and Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Review and remove all inconsistencies, convoluted wordings, and self-contradictions in the UNJSPF regulations etc. which can only breed unilateralism and arbitrariness in its handling of pensioners’ affairs.<span style=""> </span>For example, the UNJSPF regulation article 1(f) and 28(g), read in conjunction with the article 43, cannot be construed/interpreted as life-time enforcement of reduced pension for 1/3 lump-sum recipients.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >12.2<span style=""> </span>UNJSPF should become more client-friendly in dealing with retirees, signified by transparency and accountability and respectful of UDHR’s “right to information”.<span style=""> </span>For example, UNJSPF could make information readily available thru its website on the fiduciary tables, and fiduciary recommendations, including those recommendations not accepted by the UNJSPB and reasons for such non-acceptance. Most national pension schemes like Indian (Federal and State) Governments Civil Pension Fund publish commutation tables and allied documents, including updates. on the public domain web sites.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >12.3<span style=""> </span>In this broadband internet age, it should be easy to be honest, transparent and accountable.<span style=""> </span>As such, the new age growing technology and inter-active websites should be employed to serve pensioners and beneficiaries effectively.<span style=""> </span>For example, by introducing suitably designed e-governance system the participants/pensioners/beneficiaries should be able to contact and get answers/resolution of issues in a cost-effective manner, and should be able to review their own files for completeness or any requirement for submitting additional information.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:12;">13.<span style=""> </span><b style="">Specific pleas/appeals for redress:</b></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12;" > <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:12;" >We find that the decision of the Standing Committee of the Pension Board was based on a cursory and incomplete consideration of our Appeal and is therefore unsatisfactory. Our contention is based on the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:12;" >13.1<span style=""> </span> There is no, repeat no, Rule or clause in the UNJSPF Regulations categorically stating, even by implication, that the lump sum option binds the beneficiary to a deduction for life. There is, therefore, no justification for any contrary interpretation and/or practice.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:12;" >13.2<span style=""> </span> The definition of "commutation" (Article 1f) also does not make such a definite statement. Furthermore, the qualification, "in accordance with the Actuarial Tables", we believe, also does not sanction the UNJSPF’s current practice of life-time enforcement of reduced pension. We would like to see what the Actuarial Tables actually says, and how it could be interpreted to mean that the commutation would be for life.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:12;" >13.3<span style=""> </span>The undertaking signed by the beneficiary at the tense time of retirement is no legal contract or agreement in that it is merely an information sheet/instruction for payment (UNJSPF Form E/7) not signed by BOTH the parties in the presence of witnesses.<span style=""> </span>Furthermore, the explanatory note under A(3) of the same form (Form E/7) contains factual misrepresentation, for example, quoting articles 28(d) and 28(e) which have no connection whatsoever and therefore, irrelevant.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:12;" >13.4 <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>There is no rationale behind the exclusion of the lump sum as a form of indebtedness.<span style=""> </span>In point of fact and legal basis the Article 43 of UNJSPF Regulation should be applied, in letter and spirit, for the recovery of the lump sum as well – up to the amount of indebtedness, and no more.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:12;" >13.5<span style=""> </span> Commutation of the pension is limited to a certain number of years in almost all National Civil Service Pension Schemes and UNJSPF policies and practices should also conform to such normal universal practice.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:12;" >13.6<span style=""> </span> It is also significant that whereas most of the Regulations of UNJSPF have been amended over the years, to take account of changed circumstances, the lump sum provision and practices alone have remained constant, despite vastly changed circumstances like life expectancy, impacting on the calculation of lump sum commutation, review towards recovery amount and period of recovery. This practice is neither consistent nor fair. On the basis of such a periodic review, amounts of lump sum would have to be recalculated (upwards) and/or the level of deduction would have to be revised (lowered). <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:12;" ><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:12;" >13.7<span style=""> </span> The continuation of the deductions beyond the full recovery of the lump sum (with interest and charges) creates two kinds of unequal beneficiaries - <span style=""> </span>the ones who took the lump sum and the ones who didn't. This will amount to discrimination and would violate the Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and UN Charter specifically according equity, fairness and justice.<span style=""> </span>Furthermore, the UNJSPF practices can also be proved as perpetrating non-compliance of other aspects of Human Rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:12;" >13.8<span style=""> </span> The refusal of our plea purely on economic grounds would be improper as well, since<span style=""> </span>this is a matter of fairness and justice, of equity and ethics and requires utmost precedence and significance towards establishing a system of fair and equitable social justice.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:12;" >13.9<span style=""> </span> On condition of acknowledging fairness, equity and justice, it is still possible to strive for any suitable solution to ensure aspects of economic viability and long term sustainability of the UN Pension system.<span style=""> </span>We are indeed open for dialogue and mutually beneficial arrangements. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style="">IV.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><u><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >LEGAL BASIS/ARGUMENT, incl. REQUEST FOR ORAL HEARING(S), IF NECESSARY:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >14.<span style=""> </span>According to the ancient eastern traditional wisdom, “neeti” and “nyaya” (justice and fairness) are two sides of the same coin and they need to be reflecting harmony and coherence to ensure social realization of what is seen as a just institutional-arrangement to implement justice based on equity and fairness.<span style=""> </span>The greatest injustice is when people cannot achieve their just goals because someone else with authority (e.g. UNJSPF et al) stops them.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >15.<span style=""> </span>Simply said, our legal basis and argument for the pleas explained above is nothing other than the foundational principles on which UN and its family of organisations should exist, function and sustain, viz. UN Charter and Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).<span style=""> </span>The independent regulations, rules and procedures of each of the family organisations should not be <i style=""><u>ultra vires</u></i> to those fundamental constitutional statutes (viz. UN Charter and UDHR).<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >16.<span style=""> </span>The fact that such gross violations were allowed for decades of UN life should say something of its internal justice system, which, we pray and hope, the revitalised new avatar UN Appeals Tribunal will soon redress, and stop the delay and denial of natural justice. <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >17.<span style=""> </span>UNJSPF financial infrastructure is based on mandated contributions from staff and double that amount from the employer organisations, to be prudently invested and managed in such a manner as to provide a well-defined pension benefits to the retirees during their life time and also those identified as beneficiaries like the surviving spouses, minor/disabled children, etc. By refusing to restore full pension to the 1/3 lump sum recipients/beneficiaries, when eligible, not only the beneficiaries are denied the rights but the employer organizations are in a sense “short-changed”.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >18.<span style=""> </span>While the benefits to the legally accepted beneficiaries are well-defined and represent a logical sense of equity and fairness, the retiree benefits do not manifest any sense of equity and fairness, especially for those of 1/3 lump sum recipients after full reimbursement to the UNJSPF of such lump sums plus generous interests over a period of time (eleven years or so). <span style=""> </span>Refusal to restore full pension after the full recovery + interest on lump sums amounts to non-compliance of principles of laws concerning equity and fairness under any legal system.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >19.<span style=""> </span>Your kind attention is invited to the joint common cause appeal submitted earlier to the Standing Committee of the UNJSPB (Annex I), wherein we have noted how different articles of UDHR for basic fundamental rights – viz. Equity, equality, fairness and justice – appear to be not being applied by the UNJSPF in the treatment of some of the UN pensioners (viz. 1/3 lump sum recipients).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >20.<span style=""> </span>The two annexes attached to the appeal to the UNJSPB Standing Committee (supporting document as Annexe 1 for this appeal) indicate how the 1/3 lump-sum paid to those retirees get recovered over the period of 11 or about years.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >21.<span style=""> </span>It is sincerely believed that UNJSPF does not intend to punish the retirees who happen to enjoy good health and long life beyond the anticipated fiduciary age of life expectancy. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >22.<span style=""> </span>As said earlier, the UNJSPF regulations, rules and procedures, specifically relating to the pleas contained in this appeal, in our humble opinion, are so flawed and dysfunctional as to allow all kinds interpretations, much of those UNJSPF interpretations remain subjective and contrary to natural justice. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >23.<span style=""> </span>In fact, the co-joined articles/rules 1(f) and 28(g) on commuted pension payments read in conjunction with article 43 – recovery of indebtedness to the fund – should imply that the lump-sum payments (as commuted pension) is to be regarded as a calculated risk-based loan or advance payment to the retiree, recoverable with interest (more than average market rate) thru monthly deductions by way of reduced pension.<span style=""> </span>Corollary to this situation, based on equity and fairness, full pension should be restored once lump sum plus generous interest becomes fully recovered/reimbursed to the UNJSPB.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >24.<span style=""> </span>Denial of full-pension for life-time can never be justified in the name of equity and fairness, except to say that UNJSPF does not expect its pensioners to live beyond the age of life expectancy of its fiduciary experts. <span style=""> </span>Longer the 1/3 lump sum recipients live better are the returns on UNJSPF’s investments by way of reduced pension to those retirees for life, to which the UNJSPF is not legally or morally entitled beyond the true actuarial period<span style=""> </span>used for commutation of the initial lump sum. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >25.<span style=""> </span>It is common practice with UNJSPF, its fiduciary findings and recommendations, including final decisions that affect the life of pensioners are never made available in the public domain – this is again contrary to the requirement of a responsible organisation based on accountability and transparency. In the absence of such openness and transparency, those who took the 1/3 lump sum are forced to sign an undertaking (not a contractual obligation) with facts held back.<span style=""> </span>The suggestion to consult with Staff Pension Committee will only be leading the blind by the blind.<span style=""> </span>We feel that UNJSPF is the sole body that should clear all doubts and clarify any concerns. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >26.<span style=""> </span>In fact, our specific pleas can be seen as “remediable injustices” which can be eliminated easily provided we ensure genuine democracy in the UNJSPF bureaucracy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >27.<span style=""> </span>Around the world, especially in the largest democracy of the world representing one-sixth of humanity (India), lump-sum commutation and restoration of full pension after 15 years has long been in vogue and fully endorsed by the highest court of justice in that country (Supreme Court of the Republic of India – Judgement given on 9 December 1986 on common cause writ petition # 3958-61 of 1983).<span style=""> </span>As full details of this judgement are freely available in the public domain websites of the Indian Supreme Court and Indian Government, it is not our intention to tire the UN Appeal Judges and save time and information/paper overload.<span style=""> </span>It is our understanding that India is not alone in this regard.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >28.<span style=""> </span>Assuming that the acceptance of the restoration of full pension for lump sum recipients after an agreed period, in the context of increasing longevity of pensioners, may cause fiduciary imbalance as per present methods, this situation can be expertly reviewed and remedied; and necessary new formulas can be established thereby all pensioners – lump-sum recipients, full pensioners, et al – can be provided benefits that become hallmark of equity and fairness.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >29.<span style=""> </span>Arguments that such lump-sum recipients had the undue advantage of investing large funds for huge profits, etc. (in the western style) are simply not proven by facts; based on our own understanding and broad based survey of pensioners, it was revealed that the pensioners were in fact lured into lump-sum option inter alia for the following compelling and compassionate reasons:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Symbol;font-size:12;" ><span style="">·<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >To offset sudden loss of regular income upon retirement and the anxiety for repartition and resettlement of a life befitting a UN staff with core values intact even in retirement;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Symbol;font-size:12;" ><span style="">·<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >To defray cost of expensive medical treatments, long postponed; to build a living place; to marry off grown up children;<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Symbol;font-size:12;" ><span style="">·<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >Anxiety of growing old to meet all family commitments before the final hour arrives.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Symbol;font-size:12;" ><span style="">·<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >Fear of any instability in the UN pension system, despite the fact that UNJSPF is known for sound financial management within UN family.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Symbol;font-size:12;" ><span style="">·<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >Some of the retirees being aware of the normal feature of many enlightened civil service pension systems were of the view that the commutation of a part of pension as lump sum + reduced monthly pension, will eventually be followed by restoration of full pension once the commuted lump sum + interest got fully recovered.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><i style=""><u><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >REQUEST FOR ORAL HEARING(S):<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0cm;"><u><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></span></u></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >30.<span style=""> </span>As can be seen from the appeal, we have raised a number of constitutional questions as to why the UN agencies’ independent regulations, rules and procedures should NOT be inconsistent with the fundamentals of the UN organisation.<span style=""> </span>In our humble opinion, it will be necessary to understand the depth and import of such “essentials” and such a situation would be better felt/explained thru oral hearing(s).<span style=""> </span>It is also our understanding that the appellants do have the right to bring in outside legal advice/counsel to better present our case.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style="">V.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >CONCLUSION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >31.<span style=""> </span>In celebrating the Human Rights Day (20 December 2008), the UN Secretary General declared that “we can only honour the towering vision of that inspiring document (UDHR) when its principles are fully applied everywhere for everyone”.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >32.<span style=""> </span>The sacred need and responsibility of UN and its associated agencies/organizations to abide by and operate in accordance with the fundamental principles enshrined in the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights cannot be over-stated.<span style=""> </span>Their legislative, executive, judiciary and administrative bodies should not only be influenced by those fundamental principles, but their day-to-day functioning should remain as role models for good governance for the rest of the world governments.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >33.<span style=""> </span>Reposing our faith in the letter and spirit of those great practical principles, we look to the UN Appeals Tribunal to uphold those values and declare its decision reflecting the removal/elimination of the “remediable injustice” done to the 1/3 lump-sum recipients of UN pensioners by restoring full pension after the lump sum PLUS generous interest have been fully recovered.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style="">VI.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS AS ANNEXES:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style="">(i)<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >Copy of Common appeal/request submitted (individually) during May/June 2009 to the Standing Committee to the UNJSPB for the restoration of full pension for the one-third lump sum recipients after a pre-determined period of commutation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style="">(ii)<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >Letter from CEO/UNJSPF of 20 July 2009 stating<span style=""> </span>there should be no change in the reduced pension for life time in the case of 1/3 lump sum recipients.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style="">(iii)<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >Information sheet on the appellants of this appeal in response to the requirements stated in the UNAT rules.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style="">(iv)<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >Respecting technology and environmental impact, and especially our faith on the <span style=""> </span>wisdom of UNAT jurisprudence, we do not attach too many documents, but<span style=""> </span>seek indulgence of careful attention to 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115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><u><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><u><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><u><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><u><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS APPEAL<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >UN<span style=""> </span>United Nations Organisation<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >UNJSPF<span style=""> </span>United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >UNJSPB<span style=""> </span>United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >UDHR<span style=""> </span>Universal Declaration of Human Rights<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >UNAT<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>United Nations Appeals Tribunal<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >UNC<span style=""> </span>United Nations Charter<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >SIGNATURES OF APPELLANTS AND RETIREE #, year of retirement, incl ADDRESSES:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style=""> </span>(original hard copy documents signed by all three signatories)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >--------------------------------------<span style=""> </span>---------------------------------------<span style=""> </span>-----------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >S.P. <span style=""> </span>Sundaram<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>V.Muthuswami<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>G.S. Srinivasan<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >R/28009<span style=""> </span>(1983)<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>R/63374 (1997)<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>R/66715 (1998)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:10;" >22 (First<span style=""> </span>Floor) First Cross St.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style=""> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:10;" >6/16 Rajagopalan St.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>1-D<span style=""> </span>Vantage Tower</span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" > <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:10;" >Sundar Nagar</span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:9;" >Valmikinagar, Tiruvanmiyur<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>34, Fifth Avenue, Besant Nagar<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:9;" >Bangalore 560 054<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Chennai 600041, India<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Chennai 600090, India<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:9;" >Tel: 91-80-2345 6938<span style=""> </span>Tel: 91-44-2442 0706/2441 6526<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Tel: 91-44-4215 4117/2491 0117<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="line-height: 115%; color: rgb(84, 141, 212);font-size:9;" ><span style=""> </span>spsundaram2003@yahoo.ca</span></u><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:9;" ><span style=""> </span><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">vmuthuswami@hotmail.com</span></u><span style=""> </span><a href="mailto:vanajasrinivasan@yahoo.com">vanajasrinivasan@yahoo.com</a><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:9;" ><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><a href="mailto:vmuthuswami@gmail.com">vmuthuswami@gmail.com</a><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >Signed at Bangalore/Chennai, India,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style=""> </span>on:</span><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1026" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Justice Governed by the Law" style="'position:absolute;" allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\MUTHUS~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image003.jpg" title="popup_justice"> <w:wrap type="square"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><img src="file:///C:/Users/MUTHUS%7E1/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image004.jpg" alt="Justice Governed by the Law" shapes="_x0000_s1026" align="left" height="180" width="180" /><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style=""> </span>27 August 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >Certification of Indian Govt. Notary Official:<span style=""> </span><span style="">
<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style=""> </span>(Done in hard copy)<span style=""> </span>END<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-81403481177150268882009-05-22T01:58:00.000-07:002009-10-08T03:30:21.780-07:00Appeal to the Standing Committee of UN Pension Board<div>The Secretary </div><br /><div>The Standing Committee to the Pension Board UNJSPF, United Nations<br />P.O. Box # 5036<br />New York, N.Y. 10017, USA</div><br /><div align="left"> Dear Members of the Standing Committee: <br /> Ref: UN Retiree # R/63374<br />Subject: Restoration of full pension for 1/3 Lump Sum Recipients after a pre-determined period of commutation<br /><br />Alike many other UN retirees, at the time of retiring from UN service, and based on very little pre-retirement pension related briefing, I opted for 1/3 lump sum with the balance of 2/3 pension being paid on monthly basis. In truth, the decision to opt for (or, in some cases, lured into accepting) lump sum payment was due to anxiety for resettling back in life with family and fulfil imminent commitments in a manner befitting the values and norms imbibed thru UN working life.<br /></div><br /><div align="left">We are aware of earlier appeals for the restoration of full pension to the 1/3 lump sum seekers, having been denied under pretext of existing co-joined rules in a manner we consider as unclear and unfair application of pensioners “valuable rights” without regard to equity and natural justice.<br /></div><br /><div align="left">Shielded by “immunities” (that should essentially be used for UN functionaries in the conduct of their humanitarian work), and governed by its own committees, rules, etc. UNJSPF has assumed a pedestal unlike any other pension fund system, thus rendering the UN pensioners to accept whatever decision made by UNJSPF internal management, <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">without recourse to any independent, impartial, transparent and non-UN adjudication/judicial process.<br /></span></strong></div><br /><div align="left">It is our considered view that contrary to the civil service pension systems in many countries, incl. my own, the non-restoration of full pension after the 1/3 lump sum payment having been fully recovered with interest over many years is <strong>NOT in accordance with the letter and spirit of a number of Articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) for which UN and its agencies/affiliates should remain the prime custodians and model of governance for the rest of the world. </strong><br /></div><br /><div align="left">In accordance with the statement by the UN Secretary General on the last Human Rights Day (20 December 2008), he declared that <strong><em><span style="color:#000099;">“we can only honour the towering vision of that inspiring document (UDHR) when its principles are fully applied everywhere for everyone”.<br /></span></em></strong><br />In other words, it is our view that the UNJSPF’s currently practiced rules and procedures appear to be ultra vires to the basic fundamental principles of UDHR and UN charter governing its management. Please see the following: <br /><br /><strong>Article 10 of UDHR</strong>: the universal right to full equality to a fair ...hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal... This is being denied to the 1/3 lump sum seekers because of the existing in-house UNJSPF mechanism for dispute-resolution, which cannot be seen as “independent and impartial tribunal”. Such an in-house mechanism with judge and prosecution belonging to the same genre may be acceptable to the staff in<br />service, but certainly not suitable for retirees who are no longer UN staff members and located in different parts of the world and are subject to national laws and regulations.<br /><br /><strong>Article 19 of UDHR:</strong> this article assures freedom to seek and receive.... information...thru any media and regardless of frontiers...We consider this right as invaluable to receive prompt, correct and truthful information regarding the basis, philosophy and justification, if any, for the life-time denial of full pension for 1/3 lump sum recipients in the context of pension fund reforms in many civil service pension systems that consider pension for old people as “valuable right” and treat all pensioners with equity and fairness. </div><br /><div align="left"><br /><strong>Article 22 of UDHR:</strong> this article provides for... social security and its realization thru national efforts and international cooperation.... in accordance with the organization and resources...indispensable for his dignity and the free development....Here again, for many in the developing world, UN pension is often the main or probably the only source of income for social security and dignified living. Denial of full-pension even after the recovery of all the 1/3 lump sum + interest, in the context of rising costs and in the absence of any other social safety net, cannot be seen (by any stretch of imagination) as being fair and equal in the treatment of all pensioner with dignity...equity and fairness.. or based on natural justice.<br /><br /><strong>Article 25 of UDHC:</strong> this article confers the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of him/herself and of his/her family....including safety/security net to take care of circumstances beyond control..<br />If this is indeed a fundamental human right enshrined in the UN governance, how can anyone justify the denial of a significant part of UN pension even after its full recovery during the commutation period?</div><br /><div align="left"><br /><strong>Article 28 of UDHR</strong>: this article guarantees a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in the UDHR can be fully realized.<br />In the context of what has been pointed out above, can UNJSPF management declare, in good conscience, that it is abiding by the UDHR in the treatment of its pensioners, especially those of 1/3 lump sum recipients even after the full recovery of the 1/3 lump sum payments.<br /><br />In these circumstances, I/we believe that it is already time for an enlightened organization like UN/UNJSPF to review its rules, regulations, procedures and working methods, especially over 50 years during which time many fault lines would have been exposed, and ensure these are in full accordance with the fundamental values enshrined in the UN charter and UDHR, so that all UN Pensioners are treated with equity, fairness and based on natural justice.<br />Such a goal will indeed be a worthy accomplishment in the present UN Development Decade and serve as model for good governance.<br /><br />Thank you for your consideration, Yours sincerely,<br />Name of Retiree: V.Muthuswami<br />Retiree # R/63374 <br />Signature: <br /><br />(Hard copy duly signed to follow thru normal airmail registered post)<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#006600;">Attachment: Annexure (giving three examples of reasonableness and sustainability of restoring full pension to the 1/3 lump-sum recipients)</span></strong><br /> ********<br /> <strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Annexure</span></strong><br /><br /><strong>Example I - Comparison of lump sum against current value based on inflation index (US)</strong><br /><br />Assumptions: Lump Sum received in 1995 based on 13 yrs annuity value period: $2000 X 12 X 13 = $ 312,000<br />Lump sum takes into account the interest receivable to UNJSPF because this lump sum paid in advance vs. entitlement payable monthly as normal standard pension.<br /> <br />Monthly pay back to UNJSPF by way of reduced pension = $ 2,000 (for ever, as per current practice)<br /> <br />As per North American inflation index for the period 1995 - 2008, (156 months) the value of $ 312,000 in 1995 would be costing currently (2008) $ 436,700<br /><br />Against this, UNJSPF investing $2,000 monthly basis (i.e. money recovered from the pensioner based on pension reduction) at 4.0% interest and allowing 2% inflation would result in a return in 2008 of $464,070.<br /><br />This would seem that UNJSPF would be entitled a maturity value of $464,070, thus gaining $ 464,070 minus $436,700 (current value of lump sum as above) = $ 27,370 in terms of current (2008) value for the same period (156 months).<br /><br />Explained differently, inflation adjusted buying power of $464,070 would be currently $357,900, which is again more than $45,900 against lump sum payment of $ 312,000.<br /><br />Therefore, it would appear that UNJSPF would stand to gain even more when the pensioner lives beyond the actuarial age of life expectancy, with reduced pension continuing.<br /><br /> ****<br /><br /><strong>Example II – A former pensioner’s simple calculation of loss incurred<br />by opting for 1/3 Lump sum vs. full pension<br /></strong><br />UN Pension `One-third' option appears beneficial device for the Pension Fund. How? Commuting one-third of our pension appears “valuable” (tempting) especially by Indians and nationals of other developing countries where life expectancy is not that attractive and several immediate commitments waiting to be taken care upon retirement. As such, we find UN pensioners in India have, by and large, opted for one-third commutations. But, given the life-styles (affording a good diet, a reasonably good house, regular health-check-ups and taking corrective action when necessary) that we have enjoyed as UN employees, we find, and there are definite indications among our members that confirm that we can expect to live an above average life. With better life expectancy, however, we become LOSERS in case we had availed of the `one-third' option. How? A colleague (M.L. Sharma of UNICEF) had done some research about the loss that we thus incur. He has calculated that the Pension Fund has already realized much more than what they had paid him by way of a lump-sum amount of 1/3rd of his commuted pension. He retired on 31 Dec 1982 and received a lump-sum of US S73,451. The chart below shows that in 11 years time up to DEC 1993 ML has fully paid back (in fact a little more) what he had received from the Pension Fund as the `commuted' amount representing 1/3rd of his pension. Thereafter, January 1994 onwards, for the rest of his life he has to be content with the reduced pension deprived of the 1/3rd portion. This shall remain a recurring loss, but whatever the loss be we wish him well and a long life.<br />From<br />To<br />Monthly 2/3 pension<br />1/3 loss X months<br />Total Loss<br />1/83 3/84 937 468 x 15 70204/84 3/86 1001 500x24 120004'86 3/88 1040 520x24 124804/88 3/89 1099 550x12 66004/89 3/90 1147 574x12 68804/90 3/91 1201 600x12 72004/91 3/92 1274 637x12 76444/92 12/93 1314 657x21 13797 Against US S 73,451 received by commutation, by 12/93 I had lost ---- 73,621 My loss is further multiplying since Jan 94 1/94 3/94 1314 657x3 19714/94 3/96 1388 694x24 166564/96 3/97 1463 731x12 87724/97 12/97 1512 756 x 9 6804 <br />TOTAL LOSS up to Dec 97 107824 1/3 recd on retirement in Jan 1983 73451As such net loss up-to-date (up to 12/97) 34373 The chart shows that in 11 yrs the Pen Fund has fully recovered rather a little more than what they had paid by way of 1/3 commuted pension<br /><br />Notes:<br /><br />1. The above table is based on reality, i.e the lump sum having been used up for family resettlement and other immediate social/family obligations, hence Not available/used for any investment purpose.<br /><br />2. Based on UNJSPF making an average monthly investment of $600 (representing 1/3 portion recovered from pensioner’s standard pension) for the same period (1983 – 1997: 180 months) – with an interest rate of 4% adjusted for inflation of 2% per annum – will result as follows:<br /><br />Final maturity value at the end of 180 months: $ 170,570<br />Inflation adjusted value of the above $ 126,400<br /><br />Thus, by approving the 1/3 lump sum of $73,451 in Jan 1983, and using 1/3 monthly reduction in standard pension for recurring investment, UNJSPF has gained significantly.<br /><br /> ****<br /><br /><br /><strong>Example III – Sustainability vis-a-vis restoration of full pension after a pre-determined commutation period<br /></strong> <br />1. Given the above examples of UNJSPF gaining thru lump sum payment and reduced pension for indefinite period, the required adjustments, if any, based on actuarial analysis be undertaken to implement full restoration of pension after pre-determined commutation period. Hypothetically, this adjustment may be accomplished in several ways, i.e. adjustment in contribution levels, factors used for lump sum calculation, pre-determined (not for life time) period for the purpose of reduced pension payment, demographic differentiation in actuarial age of life-expectancy, etc.<br /><br />2. UNJSPF, as a social security agency to fulfil the mandates of Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), should strive to treat all pensioners on the basis of equity and fairness, once the lump sum indebtedness of the pensioner remains fulfilled. UNJSPF has an obligation to be seen to be operating as what UN Secretary General declared during a recent Human Rights Day (20 Dec 2008) that “we can only honour the towering vision of that inspiring document (viz. UDHR) when its principles are duly applied everywhere and for everyone.”<br /><br />3. In fulfilling the above UDHR obligation, UNJSPF secretariat should be advising the UN legislative bodies on the necessary changes, if any, in regard to policies/procedures to be implemented, i.e. to ensure sustainability and at the same time achieving the goals of equity and fairness enshrined in the UDHR.<br /><br />4. In the case of (lump sum recipient) national staff and whose pension is adjusted by government COL index for their reduced 2/3 pension do not reflect the actual market rate increases in their cost of living. This is further exasperated in the case of GS staff receiving only a minimum stipulated pension payment.<br /><br />5. It is important that UN pension system be comparable to many enlightened civil service pension systems rather than private groups, and yet sustainable based on UDHR values.<br /> *****<br />May 2009</div>V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-42176331087652981542009-04-02T09:05:00.000-07:002009-04-04T10:24:11.021-07:00HOLDING ON FOR DEAR LIFE AS UN PENSIONER IN INDIA<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-size:130%;">ATTENTION UN PENSIONERS</span>: THANKS TO APRIL FIRST CELEBRATION, OUR UNPA SECRETARY SHRI BALDEV BAJAI'S EMAIL <a href="mailto:...@HOTMAIL.COM">...@HOTMAIL.COM </span></a>WAS HACKED AND HE IS TRYING TO RECREATE HIS ESSENTIAL RECORDS. HIS NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: <a href="mailto:baldev_bajaj@live.com">baldev_bajaj@live.com</a> (that is, baldev (underscore) <a href="mailto:bajaj@live.com"><span style="color:#000000;">bajaj@live.com</span></a></strong><br /><strong> XXXXXXXXXXXXXX</strong><br /><br />Here are a few key emails exchanged with UNJSPF & Pension Board members on the appeal for the restoration of full-pension to the 1/3 lump-sum recipients after the commutation period:<br />*********<br />Subject: Fw: UN PENSION FUND - Letter from the Chief Executive OfficerTo: vmuthuswami@hotmail.comCc: "Hans Narula" <hansnarula@aol.com>, "Bajaj Baldev" <bajaj_baldev@hotmail.com>, "Sandy Sundaram" <spsundaram2003@yahoo.ca>, "UN JSPF" <unjspf@un.org>, "Ramnath Dore" <ramnath.dore@gmail.com>, "Frank Deturris" <deturris@un.org>, "Sergio Arvizu" <arvizu@un.org>Received: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 10:00 AM<br /><br />Dear Mr. Muthuswami,<br />Thank you for copying me your below email. I noted your sentence on "theconcerns and genuine grievances from some of the pensioners (of 1/3 lumpsum category)" which were<br />expressed and apparently went unanswered.May I ask you to please forward to me directly any messages or lettersalready sent to the Fund concerning these issues.<br />Thank you.Best regards.<br />Bernard CocheméChief Executive OfficerUNJSPF<br /><a href="mailto:cocheme@un.org">cocheme@un.org</a><br />Visit our website: www.unjspf.org----- Forwarded by Bernard G Cocheme/UNJSPF/NY/UNO on 03/23/2009 01:37 PM<br />**************<br />Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:04:22 -0700<br />From: spsundaram2003@yahoo.caSubject: Re: Fw: UN PENSION FUND - Letter from the Chief Executive OfficerTo: cocheme@un.orgCC: vmuthuswami@hotmail.com; baldev_bajaj@hotmail.com; ramnath.dore@gmail.com; sarojlingam@gmail.com; mdam@bluewin.ch; <a href="mailto:art.desmit@sympatico.ca">art.desmit@sympatico.ca</a><br /><br />Dear Mr. Cocheme,<br />It was nice of you to copy your letter to Mr. Muthuswami. I am pleased to take the opportunity of addressing you about the let-down feeling that some of us feel.You may not remember our meeting at the FAFICS Council meeting in Montreal in 2004, when I was much impressed with your directness in answering questions and projecting yourself as the friend and supporter of the interests of the pensioners. That is why I was surprised that there wasn't even an acknowledgement when I wrote to you last year. Probably, it was lost in the mail.<br />Actually, I had posted a letter to you only 3 days ago, which you will be receiving in a few days. I am, however, pleased to send you an advance copy as an attachment to this email. I shall, no doubt, appreciate your reactions and comments. I am also taking the liberty of sending you a copy of the presentation I will be making at the forthcoming AGM of our Association, AFUNPI. I will naturally be grateful for your patience in going through the 4-page submission and giving me the benefit of your valued comments.Incidentally, I also wish to recall my brief meeting with your predecessor, Mr. Raymond Gieri, when he was on a 1-day mission to ICAO Montreal (in the late 80's I think) . He kindly gave me a couple of minutes during which I told him, "the lump sum would be cleared sometime in the future and what would the Fund do -- either follow the universal practice and restore full pension or continue the deductions beyond; in the latter case, would it be morally justifiable?" (at that time, the actuaries' determination that in 13 years the recovery would be completed, was not common knowledge). Mr. Giery merely said, "Mr. Sundaram, you have a point". Whether he followed up or not, I don't know. I thought I would share that with you.<br />Kindest regards,<br />S. P. Sundaram<br />***********<br /><br />From: vmuthuswami@hotmail.comTo: alakhanpal@unicef.org; oadeniyi@unicef.org; carlos.santos@pnuma.orgCC: bajaj_baldev@hotmail.com; spsundaram2003@yahoo.ca; ramnath.dore@gmail.com; merrillcassell@gmail.com; hansnarula@aol.com; pbala1932@gmail.com; kmckenzie@unicef.org; cocheme@un.orgSubject: UN Pensioners appeals to the CEO/UNJSPFDate: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:16:33 +0530<br />.ExternalClass .EC_hmmessage P<br />{padding:0px;}<br />.ExternalClass body.EC_hmmessage<br />{font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;}<br /><br />Dear UNICEF friends and colleagues:<br />Greetings from UNICEF old-timer from India.<br />It is great to know that there are two UNICEF members serving the UNJSPF board. A number of UN Pensioners both in India and elsewhere who were 1/3 lump sum recipients and are still alive and kicking have appealed that their full-pension be restored after commutation period, in accordance with the following "enlightened" premises:<br /><br />1. First there is nothing in the regulation and rules, signed documentation etc. to sanction life-time denial of full pension.In fact close scrutiny of the UNJSPF regulations/rules will reveal many critical self-conflicting methods and practices, totally ultra vires with the UN foundational constitution, viz. Universal Declaration of Human Rights and UN Charter. How can a UN outfit enact and practice such rules and methods that maybe seen in conflict with its own foundational constitutional framework? This mystery needs to be resolved.<br /><br />2. "Luring" pensioners into 1/3 lump sum and recovering this "loan" by paying only 2/3 reduced pension could probably make good investment sense. See UNJSPF rule 43 regarding recovery of such advance payments or indebtedness (that is what the 1/3 lump sum is in its essential nature).<br /><br />3. In fact, it makes a lot of sense for "luring" pensioners into lump-sum as "loan-investment" and recovering it safely. Thanks to good life style and reasonable disciplines, UN Pensioners are normally live longer than the usual actuarial age of life-expectancy and continue to pay back the lump-sum loan.Even if the pensioner kicks-the-bucket sooner than the actuarial age, never mind: any way the pension is reduced to one-half if there exist any surviving/recognized spouse to claim anything from UNJSPF. In any case, this loan-investment method is safer than the shark-infested wall-street type or AIC-patented stocks and bonds. It is a win for UNJSPF and loss for pensioners in old age! The correct ethical model should be a win-win solution!<br /><br />4. Many of civilized countries civil service pension schemes around the world, e.g India, Australia, New Zealand etc. and their court judgments have declared that full pension be restored after a pre-determined commutation period. Pension is seen as "valuable right" by these courts.<br /><br />5. There seems some kind of totalitarian or unilateral approach being followed in the UNJSPF system: the rule provides for appeal to the UN Admin Justice system which is universally known for its delays and mis-carriages; more over why UN pensioners (who are no longer UN employees, dispersed around the globe, and also drawn from so many institutions within the so-called big UN family) should be subject to a system which is basically meant for in-house disputes and operating probably in a dark basement; so, it is a typical unilateral non-starter approach for the UN Pensioners having any problem with the UNJSPF; why not an internationally accepted arbitration process (e.g. UNCITRAL) provided in the case of problems with the UNJSPF.<br /><br />6. To be truly transparent and accountable, UNJSPF can easily enter into some kind of MOUs with any inter-governmental organizations or with country governments to emphasize/guarantee its readiness to abide by the decisions of any territorial judicial mechanisms in case of dispute redressal. In today's globalised world, with internet connectivity, it is so simple to be honest, transparent, answerable, accountable, truly compassionate, etc. if UNJSPF is prepared to seek out-of-box creative solutions that are not immediately known to those sitting in their small myopic cubicles in its Manhattan First Avenue office.<br /><br />7. Until this happens, given the perception that international laws are vanishing point of jurisprudence, and because of mis-understood/often mis-placed immunities enjoyed in the name of UN Geneva Convention, many of the territorial judicial systems normally treat the UN and its outfits like UNJSPF as "untouchables" - international pariah.What this means is that, incase of disputes or grievances, the UN Pensioners are left to the goodwill of those who run the UNJSPF or mend for themselves.These are not the characteristics of a model organization or model of good governance to any one.<br /><br />8. I must also mention at this time about the various pensioners associations around the world: most are at best social clubs, worried about next picnic place or re-union location! In India we have two associations for one country: none wants to unite or merge with a sensible mission-goal, despite members assurance to the leadership to keep their titles and egos in tact! The European associations, I am afraid, despite their renowned reformist high-growth brain power, most seem to suffer from a bout of adult-autism.<br /><br />9. Finally, our appeal to you as members of the Pension Board: please help make UNJSPF as a progressive, compassionate and accountable model of good governance. Cheers, Best regards to all.<br />V. Muthuswami/Chennai, India<br />(Camp: Yogic Center, Escondido, CA, USA)<br />***********<br /><br />From: vmuthuswami@hotmail.comTo: carlos.santos@pnuma.orgCC: bajaj_baldev@hotmail.com; spsundaram2003@yahoo.ca; tnkutty@hotmail.com; ramnath.dore@gmail.com; pbala1932@gmail.comSubject: FW: UN PENSION FUND - Response to Mr Bernard Cocheme's readiness to review our appeals!Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:54:48 +0530<br />.ExternalClass .EC_hmmessage P<br />{padding:0px;}<br />.ExternalClass body.EC_hmmessage<br />{font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;}<br /><br />Respected Sir:<br />In the understanding that you are currently serving the UN Pension Board and a friend of democractic world order based on UDHR, I, as a world citizen UN Pensioner (born in the largest democracy India) and on behalf of fellow pensioners, would like to share with you the concern expressed in the following email sent to Mr Bernard Cocheme, CEO, UNJSPF. Details of our appeals are available in our website: <a href="http://unpensionerindia.blogspot.com/">http://unpensionerindia.blogspot.com/</a> Our appeal to you is simple: please support and ensure the credibility and integrity of the UN & its entities (UNJSPF) as a true and best model of good governance and accountability for the rest of the world.<br />Best regards,<br />V. Muthuswami/Chennai, India<br />(Camp: Escondido, CA, USA 92025)<br />**********<br />From: vmuthuswami@hotmail.comTo: cocheme@un.orgCC: hansnarula@aol.com; bajaj_baldev@hotmail.com; spsundaram2003@yahoo.ca; unjspf@un.org; ramnath.dore@gmail.com; deturris@un.org; arvizu@un.org; pbala1932@gmail.com; nambiar@un.orgSubject: UN PENSION FUND - Response to Mr Bernard Cocheme's readiness to review our appeals!Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:58:38 +0530<br />.ExternalClass .EC_hmmessage P<br />{padding:0px;}<br />.ExternalClass body.EC_hmmessage<br />{font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;}<br /><br />Dear friend Mr Cocheme:<br />First of all, thank you for your prompt response. In respecting your office and your own time, let me try and summarize our appeals to you submitted earlier thru UN SecGen office and also sent directly to your office during the past many weeks. Also, the appeals made on behalf of many UN Pensioners in India are available in our website: <a href="http://unpensionerindia.blogspot.com/">http://unpensionerindia.blogspot.com/</a> and I can separately forward those email appeals should you desire.<br /><br />1. Despite the "rights" enshrined in Articles 19 & 29 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and UN Charter itself, the group of Indian pensioners has not been able to seek any reliable information thru your office on the background philosophy and legal basis of NOT restoring the full pension to the 1/3 Lump-Sum recipients, after the commutation period and after completion of full recovery of the lump sum amount + interest on the lump sum over the years. Not only the l/3 lump-sum recipients did not accept/sign off any life-time denial of that part of the pension, nor was it specifically explained in any of the UNJSPF rules, regulations or documentation. This practice is contrary to many enlightened governments' civil servant pension schemes, incl. India, where both the government and courts had ruled to restore the full-pension after commutation period. Hope, it is not that UNJSPF does not favour pensioners living beyond "actuarial age of life-expectancy" and share their experience with the fellow-beings to make this planet a better place to live! (Incidentally, this situation betrays most unhealthy undemocratic censorship of emails from beneficiaries that exist in your office. Please do something before such practices undermine the credibility and integrity of your esteemed office.)<br /><br />2. It is our understanding that actuarial committees and other advisory groups had favoured the restoration of full pension for 1/3 lump-sum recipients after the commutation period, basically to ensure equity, fairness, and justice among all pensioners; also it was considered to be affordable to implement "equity and justice" within the well-managed and capitalized UNJSPF. It is not known why this recommendation/decision is not implemented until now. Is it administrative lacuna, lack of administrative action or just psychological blockage by convoluting the interpretation of your rule 12(g)?<br /><br />3. Though not specifically included in our earlier appeals, the following queries were raised time and again within our pensioners group:<br />(a) why is it necessary to apply the CPI movements of over 2 % effective only from April on any calendar year. Why not implement the increase right from the beginning of the year (i.e. month of January) ?<br />(b) in the case of lump-sum recipients, this practice is indeed a double-whacky: these category pensioners are also denied any CPI adjustments on the 1/3 portion of pension because this group received the lump sum earlier.<br />(c) because of the so called immunity (hopefully not, minus responsibility/accountability) enjoyed by UN and its entities, it seems a pity that all common sense approach and all the natural justice elements enshrined in the UDHR are thrown to the winds; and pensioners are at the receiving end as beneficiaries without any voice.<br />The reasons are not far from seeking: UN Admin. Tribunal system is not effective (e.g. justice delayed, justice denied), nor any internationally acceptable arbitration mechanism (e.g. UNCITRAL) is provided, nor is it a smooth ride to any seek territorial judicial intervention (thanks to the all-embracing immunity shield that seems to shy away all the otherwise available avenues of justice to UN pensioners dispersed around the world); finally our own two Pensioners Associations in India function more like "social clubs", and do not appear to have the courage of conviction to do anything useful to the beneficiaries.<br />On behalf of my fellow pensioners, I sincerely believe you understand the purpose and sentiments behind our appeals, and also pray and hope that you will review these concerns in a proper perspective and ensure UNJSPF continue to remain as a model for all others.<br />May we wait to hear from you before long and regards,<br />V. Muthuswami/Chennai, India<br />(Yogic Camp: Escondido, CA, USA)(On his behalf and on behalf of UN pensioner in India)<br />*******<br />From: vmuthuswami@hotmail.comTo: spsundaram2003@yahoo.ca; bajaj_baldev@hotmail.comCC: carlos.santos@pnuma.org; alakhanpal@unicef.org; oadeniyi@unicef.org; castellanosa@un.org; cocheme@un.orgSubject: UNPensionersIndia: appeal for restoration of full-pension for 1/3 lump sum recipients after commutation periodDate: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:25:16 +0530<br />.ExternalClass .EC_hmmessage P<br />{padding:0px;}<br />.ExternalClass body.EC_hmmessage<br />{font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;}<br /><br />Dear Sandy Sundaram:<br />Do you really need a socalled official sponsorship to attend and listen to the deliberations in the forthcoming pensioners assns. meeting in Vienna. From what I understand from the UNJSPF Pension Board group that in this great democractically administered system, you have the right to be heard and that should mean attendance, if desired, at the FAFICS meetings as a UNPensioner.<br />Maybe, we should ask the Pension Board members to help open the doors for you to participate in those meetings, without voting. I am therefore taking the liberty of copying this email request to three of Pension Board members with the request if they can facilitate your attendance at the forthcoming Vienna meeting. Godspeed for your initiative,<br />V. Muthuswami/Chennai, India<br />(Camp: Yogic Center, Escondido, CA, USA 92025)<br /><br />cc: UNJSPF Pension Board Members:<br />In the absence of harmony and lack of unity among the two socalled UNPensioners Associations in India (I admit I am also member in both these social clubs), some of the public-spirited UN Pensioners in India and elsewhere, have taken the initiative to make the appeals of which details are available in our website: <a href="http://unpensionerindia.blogspot.com/">http://unpensionerindia.blogspot.com/</a> and in the number of emails marked for your kind attention in the recent past. Driven by our honest concern and commitment to do some good to the fellow-pensioners, especially those in Asia and Africa retired at local levels, our senior statesman Pensioner, Mr Sandy Sundaram (retiree from ICAO, Montreal, in the 1980s, now living in Bangalore, India) would like to have an opportunity to attend the forthcoming FAFICS in Veinna, and also explain how this administrative commission & omission could be easily resolved. His attendance would be at no cost to any of your outfits; this trip will be purely personally-financed and I will be glad to share any cost with Mr Sundaram. My appeal to you esteemed Board members and officials, to allow the attendance of Mr Sandy Sundaram, signifying true democratic spirit of our system.If this is agreeable, you may kindly inform Mr Sandy Sundaram, whose email address and mailing address in Bangalore is available in this email.<br />Thank you, God Bless.<br />*******<br />Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:36:27 -0700From: spsundaram2003@yahoo.caSubject: Re: greetingsTo: bajaj_baldev@hotmail.comCC: vmuthuswami@hotmail.com<br />.ExternalClass DIV<br /><br />Dear Mr. Bajaj,<br /><br />Thank you for your e-mail. You are so kind.<br />Yes, I too feel that with the convincing and persuasive appeal to the CEO (If I am able to attend the FAFICS Council Meeting, where CEO usually is present at one of the sessions to answer questions and clarify things, I hope to have a one-on-one talk with him as well as an exchange at the Meeting. I am sure that with all your contribution and moral support, we would not fail to succeed, perhaps even before the next UN Day. Should the CEO reject our Appeal or shows only a lukewarm interest, he should know that the class action suit is only round the corner and he would have to answer all those intrusive questions from the legally trained minds. I am not doing this for us in particular, but for the likes of Praveen, the office "boy" and Prachob, the driver at the ICAO Regional Office long ago and Moses the driver in Addis Ababa. We are our brothers' keeper as the Prophet said.<br /><br />Yes, I would like to be on the mailing list of UNPA News. Incidentally, years ago, when I was on the Executive Committee of CAFICS in Montreal, I used to read your Bulletin and enjoyed them so much. That is why I was saddened by the fact that there is no co-ordination between our two organizations. For practical and logistical reasons, it is necessary to have two organizations in a country like the size of India, but it is absolutely criminal that our organizations are not on talking terms to coordinate our views and actions. I have told Mr. Janakiraman many times but his one-track mind would not listen.<br /><br />I am pleased to give you my mailing address, which is:<br />S. P. Sundaram, 22 First Cross, Sundar Nagar, Bangalore 560 054. Ph: (080) 2345 6938<br />Cell: 944 981 8802.<br /><br />I will also try and send you a copy of AFUNPI Directory (which in the normal course of things our two organizations should be exchanging) so that you can know of the contacts of all our members. AFUNPI may not take the initiative, but maybe UNPA should set the ball rolling by initiating action towards co-ordination between our two organizations whose aim is to serve pensioners of the UN family. (My son is in Delhi. I will ask him to contact you at your mutual convenience)<br /><br />Kindest regards,<br /><br />S. P. Sundaram<br />*******<br />From: baldev bajaj <bajaj_baldev@hotmail.com>To: SP Sundaram <spsundaram2003@yahoo.ca>Cc: Vemlatram Muthuswami <vmuthuswami@hotmail.com>Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:31:13 PMSubject: greetings<br />.ExternalClass .EC_hmmessage P<br />{padding:0px;}<br />.ExternalClass body.EC_hmmessage<br />{font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;}<br /><br />indeed i love to read and re=read your note to the Pen Fund CEO - this is a very well written piece and should bring us some good news I need your postal address so that i may share with you copies of UNPA Bulletin and LINK wherein we have published a writeup on restoration of pension - thanks and regards<br />***********V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-59304369033412276412009-03-28T17:23:00.000-07:002009-03-28T17:26:29.341-07:00UNWIND: UN PENSION FUND - LETTERS OF CONCERN<a href="http://merrillc.typepad.com/unwind/2009/03/un-pension-fund-letter-of-concern.html">UNWIND: UN PENSION FUND - LETTERS OF CONCERN</a><br /><p>Additional relevant issues raised by Mr Merrill Cassell, former UNICEF Budget Chief, and the response from the CEO/UNJSPF.</p><p> </p>V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-59506840198432542572009-03-23T08:57:00.000-07:002009-03-23T10:00:07.390-07:00UNWIND: UN PENSION FUND - LETTER OF CONCERN<a href="http://merrillc.typepad.com/unwind/2009/03/un-pension-fund-letter-of-concern.html">UNWIND: UN PENSION FUND - LETTER OF CONCERN</a><br /><p>Please read the exchange of letters between a former UNICEF Budget Chief and CEO/<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">UNJSPF</span> on the impact of current global financial developments, thanks to the "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">AIG</span>" (arrogant, incompetent and greedy) <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">shenanigans</span>.</p><p>Mr Bernard Cocheme, CEO, UNJSPF, seems to believe that there is no need to raise needless alarms now, hopefully the UNJSPF is in a good position to weather the current strom. </p><p></p>V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-55943038433764703502009-03-14T17:37:00.000-07:002009-03-14T17:56:19.701-07:00HUMANIZING UNJSPFFrom: vmuthuswami@hotmail.com<br />To: bajaj_baldev@hotmail.com; spsundaram2003@yahoo.ca<br />CC: afus@unesco.org; wzyss@wanadoo.fr; jpndh@yahoo.com; jchevron@unog.ch; atholle@unog.ch; tholle@cytanet.com.cy; unjspf@un.org; jspfgva@unog.ch; ramnath.dore@gmail.com; tnkutty@hotmail.com; hansnarula@aol.com; nambiarv@un.org<br />Subject: Humanzing the dehumanized UNJSPF - restoration of full pension after the commutation period<br />Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:55:42 +0530<br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>THIS EMAIL IS BEING COPIED TO CHAIRMAIN OF UN PENSIONER ASSOCIATIONS FEDERATION AND HIS/HER CO-HORTS, UNJSPF AND ALSO THE TWO PRESS OUTFITS SUPPOSEDLY WORKING IN "HARMONY" WITH UN IDEALS OF JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS.</strong><br /></span><span style="color:#000099;">FOR ME (on behalf of myself and other UN pensioners in India: http://unpensionerindia.blogspot.com) THIS SHOULD REMAIN FINAL-FOR-NOW CALL FOR "SANITY'' AND JUSTICE ON BEHALF OF UN PENSIONERS IN INDIA AND ELSEWHERE IN THE ASIAN/AFRICAN COUNTRIES.<br /></span>(MY GRATEFUL THANKS FOR ALL THOSE WHO GAVE ME BACKGROUND INFN AND GUIDANCE IN PURSUING THIS "DHARMIC" STRUGGLE SO FAR; MAY THE LORD ALMIGHTY BLESS THE NECESSARY MOMENTUM AND STRENGTH TO ENSURE FAIRENESS AND JUSTICE IS DONE SOONER THAN LATER)<br />Dear Bajaj ji & Sandy Sundaram:<br />It is not at all disappointing to see that the colonized minds of the leaderships of UN Retirees Associations (mostly run by professionals of 18/19th century western orientation) have been functioning more like modern-day Hitler super-lords of the UN Pension empire, with no conscience for moral rectitude based on Universal Declaration of Human Rights, nor in touch with current developments in many progressive civil service pension schemes around the civilized world, ensuring better and stronger social security systems for civil service retirees and people of old age.<br /><br />As said in the recent appeals to the UN Sec Gen and the CEO UNJSPF, all these retiree associations, the federations et al all behave as “your majesty’s servants” or mouth-pieces for what their masters want to hear - never mind about human development status among local categories of UN staff whose pension means less and less in today's inflationary situation vs. government civil service retirees getting better DEALS TO insulate against rising costs and other economic issues.<br />The lives of UN retirees of local lower GS categories in the third world are so pitiable because these retirees are neither cared for nor owned by their government, nor even thought of by these elitist UN retiree associations, whose super-boss leaderships are concerned more with the next picnic location, not worried about fellow retirees in the GS and other local grades in developing countries. These associations are not equipped to do anything to improving the UN pension ground rules more in tune with changing times, demands of current economic situation and improvements in many government pension systems.<br /><br />Accepting that UN pension fund has to work within its financial means and capacity, it does not require rocket science to prove (my information is that the Actuarial Committee has already positively proved this) that extending full-pension after commutation period will not result in any unmanageable drain on its asset value and financial strength in fulfilling its commitments for years to come - even assuming every retiree is going to live beyond 100 years of age. Also, this should ensure equity and fairness among all retirees once the 1/3 lump sum has been recovered in full with interest.<br /><br />Any enlightened human mind looking at the UNJSPF rule 28(g) will see how deceitful, one-sided, and insidious that such a rule was written by some convoluted minds of past century. For example:<br />1. When mentioning about commutation, the basis of commutation should have been mentioned and philosophy behind such payment;<br /><br />2. If the commutation is on basis of no. of years/months, the rule has to make it clear what happens if the retiree lives beyond that no. of years/months;<br /><br />3. Just asking to accept commutation or standard annual payment (divided into monthly parts) is obviously conceited way of saying that “you are done for life”;<br /><br />4. UNJSPF would accept payment to validate the non-contributory years (as long as it comes with interest), but will not say anything about its own responsibility to restore the full pension if the retiree lives beyond the anticipated actuarial age (maybe he/she has NO right live beyond that time – may be a Hitlerian doctrine!).<br /><br /><br />Many of us who want to foster “one world one people” know that it is a tough challenge to tame the global Goliath called UN/UNJSPF, who is covered by so many immunity shields, and does not provide any level playing field to its civil servants. See its incongruous existence:<br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;">1. The organization (with all its entities) are supposed to serve as models of governance and as model employer. Thanks to its so called immunities, most of the civilized world’s judicial institutions treat the organization more as a pariah than with the respect and reverence it should deserve, because its day-to-day governance model is so flawed and acts just as a platform for letting steam off for ego-centric self-righteous big-wigs, powers-that-be, and oil-rich-money-bags.<br /></span><span style="color:#000099;">It is common knowledge that though the UN Charter and Universal Declaration of Human Rights should remain as the basic “foundational constitution” of the system, many regulations and rules, conventions etc. of the UN entities, remain totally ultra vires. No judicial system can do anything because these guys are immune! Basically both the charter and UDHR are more for preaching to others, not for practising at home in its own conduct.<br /></span></strong><br /><br /><strong>2. Its legislative and executive wings work more in collusion than with any kind of independence and professional integrity necessary to make both these arms of governance stronger, ensuring transparency, accountability and answerability to the public at large.<br /></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">3. Talking about the administrative judicial system, lesser said the better – because what one often finds to his/her dismay is that both the prosecutor and judge are the same genre mindset. If anyone has grievance against the system, he is done and cannot go anywhere outside of this vicious circle.<br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#009900;">4. In a true democratic governance, we have a fourth pillar called “independent media”.<br />In the case of scrutinizing UN governance, the media’s role is so comical – nothing written/published about its functioning will be of any great impact except for your own amusement and nothing is going to change unless it can be willed by the UN system itself – law unto themselves.<br />********</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">You may then wonder why I have taken the trouble to write all this at my “70+ not out state”, the answer is just my moral calling, hoping that UN and its entities will ONE DAY become TRUE MODELS OF HUMAN GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT. It is not important I should be alive to see that day, as long as the future generation witnesses the human evolution in tune with natural justice and humane attributes (as I learnt in my Indian vedic tradition of thousand years vintage, that is happily finding its meaningful life-purpose in the western world educational and human-development institutions, except UN!)<br /></span></strong>Jai Ho! God Bless,<br />V. Muthuswami/Chennai, India<br />(Camp: Escondido, CA, USA 92025)<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:32:35 -0700<br />From: spsundaram2003@yahoo.ca<br />To: bajaj_baldev@hotmail.com<br />CC: ramnath.dore@gmail.com; vmuthuswami@gmail.com<br /><br /><br />Dear Sri Bajaj,<br /><br />I have been trying to send an e-mail to Sri Muthuswami (in reply to messages) for the last 3 days without success. Everytime I get the response "message not sent due to connection problems". I am trying to send you a message as a new transaction. Hope it goes and Mr. Muthuswami also gets it..<br /><br />You may think I am having cold feet, but I have been thinking bseriously. All of them (FAFICS, CAFICS, and now the WHO Retirees' Association et al) are wielding the same stick to beat you with. Art 28g of the UNJSPF Regulations which allow you to commute (interchange one for the other) a part of the annual standard rate of benefit for a lump sum and that holds good forever. They wouldn't even consider cogent, logical, even moral if not legal arguments we raise. I am afraid AFUNPI next month will probably play the same tune. The Sec.Gen , a slave to his bureaucratic Assistants (advisers?) and the indebted Member Governments, will most probably wash his hands off with the excuse that the Rule is unfortunately clearly spelt out. So, I wonder whether it is worth spending all our time and money in try to reach the "Moon" and get solace? And after a negative vote from the Sec.Gen where can we go and who do we appeal to?<br /><br />All said and done, I think the only way is to contest that blasted Rule itself as unfair, illegitimate in not being in conformity with the universal practice, unconscionable in the light of the Canadian Courts in a parallel case, immoral and unbecoming for a UN institution, illogical on the face of its own actuaries' recommendation etc. Yes, we have many, many (and no doubt, you and our friends have more, not to mention what the clever lawyers would think of) arguments to blast the gang and vestablish that their Rule can't be valid, legal or moral. We have to gear ourselves to that avenue and prepare our case.<br /><br />I have a faint ray of hope that we confront the CEO for his impropriety in not following the Pension Board-sanctioned Rule 43 and as he administratively fouled things up he is dutybound to rectify with the only logical administrative decision to stop all deductions (after full recovery of our indebtedness) and restitute our full benefit. He may, although I don't have much hope, relent and see wisdom in taking the easier and more conscionable option (not going to the Board, UNGA and any meddling body else) and agree to our petition. Already, half a dozen beneficiaries have sent their individual appeals to him, and if we can mount this letter-writing campaign and drown him in hundreds of such personal appeals, he certainly would have to take cognicence; if he doesn't that is another argument to be adduced by us in the class action suit.<br /><br />Sorry to be such a pessimist, but the reality unfortunately is hitting us.<br /><br />Kindest regards,<br /><br />Sandy Sundaram<br />*******SV.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-70787096952825573822009-03-10T08:50:00.000-07:002009-03-10T10:13:20.892-07:00State of Health Research - Cancer UpdateAFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY . Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins <br />1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.<br />2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.<br />3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours.<br />4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.<br />5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.<br />6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.<br />7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and ! damages healthy cells, tissues and organs. <br />8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction. <br />9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications. <br />10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites. <br />11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply. WHAT CANCER CELLS FEED ON: <br />a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells . Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal,Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt. <br />b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk, cancer cells are being starved . <br />c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer. <br />d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C). <br />e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled wate! r is acidic, avoid it. <br />12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrified and leads to more toxic buildup. <br />13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering.. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells. <br />14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-essence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells. <br />15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor.. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life. <br />16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising da ily , and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells. <br /><br />This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life.<br /> *******V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-19368089860450186732009-03-07T09:02:00.000-08:002009-03-07T09:02:35.394-08:00Civil-service Pension Schemes Around the World<a href="http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:gfnrXdcGeJQJ:siteresources.worldbank.org/SOCIALPROTECTION/Resources/SP-Discussion-papers/Pensions-DP/0602.pdf+indian+civil+service+pension+scheme&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us">Civil-service Pension Schemes Around the World</a><br /><br />(Please refer to the above site to understand some of the aspects of civil service pension around the world)V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-16921714328809577042009-03-04T18:03:00.000-08:002009-03-04T18:28:02.901-08:00Seeking vital information from UNJSPFFrom: <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Venkatarama</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">MUTHUSWAMI</span> <<a href="mailto:vmuthuswami@gmail.com">vmuthuswami@gmail.com</a>>Date: Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:15 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">AMSubject</span>: Seeking information from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">UNJSPF</span> - Ref: Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Articles 19 & 28To: UN PENSION FUND <<a href="mailto:unjspf@un.org">unjspf@un.org</a>>, jspfgva@unog.ch, <a href="mailto:nambiarv@un.org">nambiarv@un.org</a>, <a href="mailto:un@un.org">un@un.org</a>Cc: <a href="mailto:amcclellan@transparency.org">amcclellan@transparency.org</a>, <a href="mailto:ti@transparency.org">ti@transparency.org</a>, <a href="mailto:hrwnyc@hrw.org">hrwnyc@hrw.org</a>,<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Preamble</span></strong>:<br />I am a senior world citizen (born in India) and a UN Pensioner. Several of my co-UN pensioners and I have been trying to seek information and clarification on a vital question from the CEO, UN Joint Staff Pension Fund (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">UNJSPF</span>), New York, without success. Our so-called UN Pensioners Associations in India, operate more as social clubs and seem permanently in a coma stage for any substantive action/follow up.<br />Hence, it has become necessary to invoke the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">UDHR</span>) and sharing copies with the Human Rights Watch, New York and Transparency International, New York & Berlin since they are seen as independent watch dog agencies to ensure <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">civility</span> and accountability in the conduct of human affairs.<br />At least this time, we hope to get the necessary information and clarification from the CEO, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">UNJSPF</span> New York.<br /> *********<br />Again, this request is made <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">thru</span> the medium of email (see also Article # 19) to ensure cost-effective e-governance, and for environmental considerations to save paper, carbon foot-prints and all other avoidable costs.<br /> *********<br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;">This request is addressed to CEO, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">UNJSPF</span>, New York, based on the address given in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">UNJSPF</span> website/public domain; any interference with this email reaching the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">CEO's</span> attention should also be seen as human rights violation by/of the organisation, who is regarded as the guardian soul-keeper of this universal declaration.<br /></span> ***********<br /><strong>Respected CEO/<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">UNJSPF</span>: </strong><br /><a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">OHCHR</span>: English (English) - Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"><strong>Please see Articles 19 & 28, under which we are now seeking information and clarification from you and your office:<br /><br />Failure to get any reference to the 1/3 Lump Sum payments (calculated on the basis of commuted period) in the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">UNJSPF</span> regulations, rules, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">infn</span> booklet, etc. please clarify the following for us:<br /><br />1) On what basis the 1/3 lump sum was introduced (because the rules and regulations, incl admin rules of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">UNJSPF</span> do not make any mention of this procedure);<br /><br />2) if 1/3 lump sum is offered under <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">CEO's</span> discretionary powers, then why was it not explained in any document, incl the form (we believe, form # E.7, clubbed with different options, which in fact is a kind of misleading without any mention of either the commutation period for calculation of lump-sum nor reinstatement of full pension after the commutation period is available) to be signed by the beneficiary concerned;<br /><br />3) if 1/3 lump sum is calculated on some formula/basis, then what happens after the commutation period is completed and recovery of the lump sum + interest, if any, has been fully done;<br /><br />4) why the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">CEO's</span> discretion to apply the corollary of natural justice, viz. to reinstate the full pension after the commutation period, is not used - what/who is manipulating admin. practices in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">UNJSPF</span>?<br />This is critical: The procedure of commuted pension and its restoration after the commuted period are accepted norms and moral standard, as a recognition of past service of civil servants and sign of support to older people, even in developing countries, e.g. India. In many of the court judgements, the pension to the civil servants (like government, UN employees and govt owned institutions) is declared as a "valid right", and does not depend on the sweet pleasure of any official or entity. In many civilised societies, older people are valued and taken care to ensure the flow of their wisdom and experience to newer generations to make this planet earth a better place than what we inherited from previous generation.<br /><br />5) why & who, if any, has decided not to apply the above principle, and the reason behind this decision. </strong></span><br /><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">We sincerely pray and hope that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">UNJSPF</span> does not wish 1/3 lump sum-recipients NOT to survive beyond actuarial age of life-expectancy.<br />We would appreciate your early responsible response,<br />Thank you in advance,<br /></span>Sincerely,<br />V. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Muthuswami</span>, Chennai, south India (Camp: Escondido, CA USA)<br />both on his behalf and on behalf of fellow-pensioners in India<br /></strong><br />.V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173178713546648230.post-6924066428285175802009-02-18T11:20:00.000-08:002009-02-18T20:47:41.141-08:00La affaire UNJSPF - To become a model for good management and global governance based on equity and justice!Dear friends in BKK , Addis and Amman:<br /> <br />Please read the following appeal addressed to the UN Secretary General.<br /> <br />There could be 1/3 lump sum+ reduced pension retirees in the NO and GS categories of your office who have been denied restitution of full pension even after the commutted period is finished. Please share the appeal with them and ask them to print out the appeal and send a signed copy to the UN Sec General office thru your office pouch. You will be doing a good social service to your former colleagues who may probably be in need of this entitlement being restored in good time.<br /><br />For friend Bajaj of UNPA, New Delhi: This is just a repeat request of what I have mentioned earlier. Hope the final version has come with addl Bollywood "punch"!<br />For Sandy Sundaram: You may kindly forward the appeal to your ICAO colleagues in BKK and ADDIS and elsewhere.<br /> <br />V. Muthuswami/Chennai, India<br />(Camp: Sitting with Yogis in CA, USA, to learn about serenity and earn wisdom!)<br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:58:35 -0800<br />Subject: Appeal from UN Retirees against "self-righteous attitude" in denying restoring full pension for the 1/3 Lump-Sum Recipients<br />From: vmuthuswami@gmail.com<br />To: secgen@un.org; sg@un.org; un@un.org; nambiarv@un.org; nambiar@un.org; inquiries@un.org; inquiries2@un.org<br />CC: unjspf@un.org; jspfgva@unog.ch; ti@transparency.org; letters@nytimes.com; editors@nytimes.com; bajaj_baldev@hotmail.com; pbala1932@gmail.com; sajanakiram@yahoo.com; spsundaram2003@yahoo.ca; vanajasrinivasan@yahoo.com; ramnath.dore@gmail.com; ksr3542@gmail.com; tnkutty@hotmail.com; srajan@unicef.org; debasis@senguptas.org; jpndh@yahoo.com<br /><br /><br />Here is the appeal to UN Secretary General, Mr Ban Ki-Moon. UN Authorities are requested to bring this to the attention of Mr Ban Ki-Moon (and/or learned deputies), failure to do so would be seen as denial of human rights (enshrined in the UN declaration!):<br /> <br />MY APOLOGIES FOR ADDRESSING TO SO MANY UN EMAILS, LIKE AN INDIAN LOST IN HIS NATIVE BUREAUCRATIC WOODS, THANKS TO NON-COOPERATIVE UN WEBSITE MANAGERS NOT WILLING TO LET ME KNOW THE CORRECT EMAIL TO SEC GEN OFFICE TO GET HIS ATTENTION ON THIS VERY IMPORTANT MATTER AND WHAT WE CONSIDER A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION. <br /> <br />Title:<br /> <br />Appeal for the restoration/restitution of full pension for those (mostly, third world) retirees who had recd 1/3 lump sum + reduced pension, after the completion of the the commuted period or annuity period. <br />This denial of restoration of full pension continues (uncontested mainly due to ignorance of third world retiree staff) for more than two generational times. In the North American politically-correct parlance, this maybe termed as "administrative wizardry" (saving for UNJSPF by starving the poor third worlders!) but in terms of Dharma and truth, this is a simple and straight forward "cheating/stealing in broad day light" and goes against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. <br /> <br />Preamble: <br /> <br />Praying that the UN (and its ancillary bodies) establish themselves as true models of good governance, as one of the "Millennium Development Goals" and lead from the front the rest of the world toward good transparent and accountable governments for their citizens.<br /> <br />Within this "grand" goal, UNJSPF should first set its working methods IN GOOD ORDER and its general conduct right by restoring equity among all pensioners and ensuring full pension for those who had earlier been "allured" into 1/3 Lump-Sum + reduced pension, after completing the period of annuity/commutation on the basis of which the original 1/3 lump was calculated. <br /> <br />To the extent we can read/understand the English language, there is NO mention anywhere either in UNJSPF rules and forms (E.7 et al) signed by participants/retirees to state that the 1/3 Lump-Sum seekers (mostly from Asian/African countries) will be denied full pension for life-time. Even considering the l/3 lump sum as a "loan" to the retirees, non-- disclosures such as the one above (viz. life-time denial of restoration of full pension) would amount to "untruth in lending" - an offence in the American sense!<br /> <br />Historical & socio-cultural background:<br /> <br />Until not very long ago, working within and for the UN was seen as a privilege even for the educated people of the third world; for a long time they used to believe in the western principles of justice and equality, and continued their loyalty to the organisations they worked in, despite the fact that some of western officials managing the UN outfits, even today treat third world colleagues (employees) with a somewhat condescending attitude. <br /> <br />In a third world environment of no government support (or any kind of general social-security safety net/systems support, like easy bank loans, easy mortgage, etc.) to fulfil the real family/public/social welfare needs of the retirees, it was no surprise that the retiring staff from these developing countries get "allured" to the 1/3 lump sum + reduced pension option without a second thought. For such a large sum at one time would help to meet their family/cultural commitments (e.g. marrying daughters, building/completing a dwelling place, taking care of serious illness, fulfilling family commitments, etc), the retirees often blindly signed the UNJSPF papers. What they did not realise was that UNJSPF was deceitful planning a denial of any restoration of full pension entitlement even after the commuting period and the full return the "loan" or 1/3 lump-sum over the years through the withholding of a part (1/3rd) of their monthly pension disbursements.<br /> <br />It is an elementary arithmetical calculation to see that savings accrued to the UNJSPF by not paying 1/3 pension or paying only a reduced pension to the lump-sum recipients would have been much greater within (plus or minus) 10 years, depending on a minimum interest on investment. <br /> <br />Look at the UNJSPF's rules/practices for violation of natural justice: UNJSPF have rules to collect interest on any delayed dues from the participants; but they themselves are immune from paying any interest for its own intentional or unintentional default or otherwise, e.g. denial to restore full pension for many retirees, for many years after commuting period.<br /> <br />UNJSPF has encouraged the assembly of pensioners associations, advisory bodies, et al. to help advice on pensioner related issues. Unfortunately most of these are quite useless in helping the pensioners resolve any issues. Even in this case of denial of full-pension to certain beneficiaries over two generational years is a solid example; pity is that many a "lump-sum & reduced pension" retirees, especially those in the national and general service categories, have already passed away as victims of UNJSPF's denial, probably leaving unnecessary debts for their families and being helpless against the stubborn injustice. Will/should any civilized world ever tolerate such unconscionable denial to continue for generations?<br /> <br />UNJSPF seems to have no real accountability (much less answerability) to its participants/beneficiaries, forgetting its basic edifice was built on the contributions made by these people and their employers in the first place.<br /> <br />UNJSPF accountability reports to the UN General Assembly is something beyond belief: UNJSPF's agenda items usually come before Christmas holidays in the GA (hopefully there is quorum among attending the GA proceedings) when people are planning for holidays and/or leave for their capitals to be with their families, etc. Unless there is a real (Wall-Street like) financial tsunami and mismanagement, nobody gives much attention to these bulky reports, done in many languages (most are consigned to dustbins; and nothing more than a waste of paper and felling of poor trees).<br /> <br />Restoration of full pension after commutation period is norm in many countries, like India, Australia, etc. Govt of France continues to pay pension even today to its old former employees in Pondicherry even though the territory was long back handed back to the Indian Republic. Indian Judicial Courts have always been prompt in restoring this benefit even in the few instances of failures. Seeking redressal through a court of justice may achieve the goal, but leaves much unwanted bad taste and avoidable sour relationship later on. <br /> <br />Final Appeal: <br /> <br />As an example of "good governance" model within UN system (during this sacred Millennium Decade goals achievement period), please ensure that all retirees are treated equally in regard to pension entitlements; not to deny the restoration of full pension even after recovering the 1/3 lump sum during annuity period.<br /> <br />General:<br /> <br />This appeal is made on behalf of lump-sum recipient/retirees in India and based on what we believe true and correct description of the situation created by UNJSPF's continual "elitism". If you want this appeal from each of the retirees, it is not difficult to organise, but we will be clogging your email space or your mail box, if you need it in hard-copies. Sending the appeal individually in paper would amount to cutting so many trees and again leaving needless carbon foot-prints, going against climate management protocols. <br /> <br />Such actions will be in contravention of Buddhist/Vedic Dharma and total disrespect to "Nature". Please let me have your choice!<br /> <br />Yours trustworthy friend of the "slumdog" world,<br />V.Muthuswami/Chennai, South India<br />On his behalf and on behalf of fellow UN retirees in India<br />(Camp: Escondido, CA,USA)<br /> <br />TAIL PIECE: <br />1. Our thanks to the new age technology and its inventors/enhancers for, on a daily basis, helping this border-less world where grievances can be heard and addressed instantly and cost-effectively. Pray and hope UN Sec-Gen office respects such technology and its outreach to resolve issues with least waste of resources of many kinds.<br /> <br />2. Again, thanks to the technology, the full text of the above appeal will be posted in the public domain website: http://UNPensionerindia.blogspot.com Let's build a true world democracy of freedom, equality and fairness to all.V.Muthuswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649929059343917169noreply@blogger.com0