E/2002/43/Rev.1 E/CN.19/2002/3/Rev.1 Draft decision IV Additional meetings “The Economic and Social Council decides to authorize an informal intersessional meeting of the members of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for five working days prior to its second session for the purpose of strategic planning. It also decides to authorize a meeting of Forum members in the three working days prior to its second session.” 15. The calendar of meetings and conferences approved by the General Assembly for the biennium 2002-2003 includes two annual sessions of 10 working days each (one in 2002 and one in 2003) for the Forum. Should the Council adopt draft decision IV, additional resources would be required as follows: (a) An amount of $125,600 under section 9, Economic and social affairs, comprising $94,800 for the cost of travel and DSA of the 16 members of the Forum to attend the intersessional meeting and $30,800 for the DSA of the members during the three working days prior to the 2003 session; (b) An amount of $225,500 under section 2, General Assembly affairs and conference services, for the provision of interpretation and the necessary pre-, inand post-session documentation. That amount comprises $127,500 for the intersessional meeting and $98,000 for the three working days prior to the 2003 session. 16. At this stage, it is not possible to anticipate whether those amounts could be absorbed from within the resources approved by the General Assembly for the current biennium. It would therefore be necessary that they be provided through additional appropriations under the two sections of the programme budget for the biennium 2002-2003. 17. The overall resource requirements entailed by the four decisions are described in the table. Requirements by section of the 2002-2003 programme budget and by object of expenditure (United States dollars) Total requirements Proposed transfers from section 22 Net total requirements A. Section 2, General Assembly affairs and conference services Conference-servicing costs Annual 10-day meeting to be held in New York instead of Geneva (draft decision III) 107 300 107 300 Provision for summary records 122 600 122 600 5-day intersessional meeting in New York (draft decision IV) 127 500 127 500 98 000 98 000 455 400 455 400 3-day working meeting prior to 2003 session (draft decision IV) Total A 29