U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has proposed new security measures estimated at costing $97 million.
In addition to $35 million needed to bolster the safety of field offices around the world, nearly $28 million will have to be spent to upgrade the premises at the U.N. World Headquarters in New York, pay for more security officers and training, and install new access control measures, according to a cost report released Monday.
The budgets for similar improvements at the eight main U.N. offices are an estimated $16 million for Geneva; more than $3 million each for stations in Nairobi, Santiago de Chile and Addis Ababa; and more than $1 million each for facilities in Bangkok, Beirut and Vienna.
One-time expenditures such as physical improvements to buildings are expected to total $29.6 million.
Stepped up security for the world organization and its personnel have been called for since last year's bombings at U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, the first of which cost the lives of 22 people.
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