34. Welcomes the adoption of the UN General Assembly Resolution concerning the EU's participation in the work of the UN on 3 May 2011, which takes into account the institutional changes introduced by the Lisbon Treaty and enables EU representatives to present and promote the EU's positions in the UN in a timely and efficient manner; considers it essential to engage with the EU's strategic partners in order to find solutions to major regional and global problems; recommends, furthermore, that strategic partnerships be given a multilateral dimension by including global issues on the agendas for the EU's bilateral and multilateral summits ...[+++]; invites France and the United Kingdom, as permanent members of the UN Security Council (UNSC), and in accordance with Article 34(2) TEU, to request that the VP/HR be invited to present the Union's position whenever the EU has defined a position on a subject on the UNSC's agenda; takes the view that the European Union should be represented as such in multilateral financial organisations, in particular the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, without prejudice to Member State representation;

34. Welcomes the adoption of the UN General Assembly Resolution concerning the EU's participation in the work of the UN on 3 May 2011, which takes into account the institutional changes introduced by the Lisbon Treaty and enables EU representatives to present and promote the EU's positions in the UN in a timely and efficient manner; considers it essential to engage with the EU's strategic partners in order to find solutions to major regional and global problems; recommends, furthermore, that strategic partnerships be given a multilateral dimension by including global issues on the agendas for the EU's bilateral and multilateral summits ...[+++]; invites France and the United Kingdom, as permanent members of the UN Security Council (UNSC), and in accordance with Article 34(2) TEU, to request that the VP/HR be invited to present the Union's position whenever the EU has defined a position on a subject on the UNSC's agenda; takes the view that the European Union should be represented as such in multilateral financial organisations, in particular the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, without prejudice to Member State representation;

3. Notes, and finds unacceptable, the reply given by the chairman of the Committee of Permanent Representatives on 11 December 2003 to the questionnaire sent by the Committee on Budgetary Control on 26 November 2003: 'The questions raised in your questionnaire under the heading General Questions to all Institutions are not directly related to the accounts of the Council over the year 2002 or to the annual report of the Court of Auditors concerning that year. The Council's position is that these questions go beyond the scope of the discharge procedure';

108. Notes that Members' voluntary pension contributions are currently being taken automatically from the general expenditure allowance; asks its Secretary-General to report by 1 July 2003 on the feasibility of requiring Members to set up a standing order to pay these contributions;

105. Notes that Members' voluntary pension contributions are currently being taken automatically from the general expenditure allowance; asks its Secretary-General to report by 1 July 2003 on the feasibility of requiring Members to set up a standing order to pay these contributions;

Mr. Peter Milliken (Parliamentary Secretary to Leader of the Government in the House of Commons): Mr. Speaker, I think you will find there is unanimous consent for the following motion: That notwithstanding any order of the House, the report deadline for phase II of the order of reference to the Standing Committee on Human Resources Development on February 8, 1994, government business No. 4, be extended to February 6, 1995, and That the committee be empowered to authorize radio and television broadcasting of any of its proceedings (Motion agreed to.)