cc: ,Rebecca.Carman@undp.org,ChristineB@unops.org date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 13:12:34 +0000 from: Mike Hulme subject: Re: Consultancy Assignment GLO/98/G31 Moldova workshop to: "Francis RONQUILLO" Dear Mr Ronquillo, Given the poor flight connections to Moldova and my commitments here at UEA on Tuesday 25th Jan., I cannot arrive in Moldova earier than late afternoon on Wed. 26th January. I will leave on either the evening of Friday 28th Jan. or on the morning of Sat. 29th January, depending on flights back to Norwich. I prefer to book my travel tickets through my own institution's travel agent (they can negotiate special deals) and then claim the economy ticket price back from you. Please confirm that this is acceptable. However, with regard to payment, there has been a very significant delay in the UNOPS payment for my attending the Mexico City NCSP workshop in mid-September 1999 as a consultant. After numerous attempts this payment has still not been made into my bank account despite me providing the details of this account several times to UNOPS, numerous emails and telephone calls to new York and despite making a number of calls to my own bank. This delay of over 3 months means that I am still owed about $5,000 by UNOPS. I am copying this email to Christine Blehle who seems to be in charge of payments and will now be providing her with a new bank account for her to try. I have not been given a reason why UNOPS have been unable to make this bank transfer, despite it being a fairly routine operation. Until this transaction from my last consultancy with UNOPS has been satisfactorily completed, I will *not* be entering into any new agreement with UNOPS with regard to the contract below. I am also copying this email to Dr Bo Lim in the NCSP/GEF office who has requested my services. Once the fiasco over my payment from last September has been resolved then I can proceed to sign a contract as indicated in your email message below. Yours sincerely, Dr M Hulme At 11:07 22/12/99 -0500, you wrote: >Dear Dr. Mike HULME, > >On behalf of Mr. Ingolf Schuetz-Mueller, Chief, Division for Environmental Programmes, UNOPS, we are pleased to provide terms of your consultancy assignment under Special Service Agreement (SSA) for UNOPS project GLO/98/G31. SSA terms are as follows: > >(1) Maximum duration four (4) working days during the period 25 January 2000 to 29 January 2000. Duty station: Chisinau, Moldova. > >(2) Under the terms of the SSA, UNOPS will pay you USDollars 400 gross per day worked payable upon satisfactory completion of the Terms of Reference, our receipt of the signed SSA and completed Certification for Payment form, submission/acceptance of report. Fees include elements for report preparation, duplication and mailing of report. > >(3) UNOPS will also provide you with a prepaid airticket via most direct/ economic route based on economy class for journeys less than nine hours for Norwich/Chisinau/Norwich plus Daily Subsistence Allowance (DSA) at UN authorized base rate when travelling outside of Norwich, UK. > >(4) As a consultant, you are responsible for any taxes that may be levied on monies received under this agreement. > >(5) As a consultant, you are responsible for securing all types of insurance coverage including medical. > >(6) Unless a USDollar bank account is provided, payment will be made by UNOPS in the local currency of the country where payment is requested using the UN operational rate of exchange current at time of payment. PLEASE PROVDE US WITH YOUR COMPLETE BANK INFORMATION: ACCOUNT NUMBER, BANK NAME, BANK ADDRESS, CURRENCY OF ACCOUNT (US$ OR GBP), BANK SWIFT CODE. > >(7) ALL OTHER TERMS/CONDITIONS SIMILAR PREVIOUS CONTRACTS WITH UNOPS. > >Please acknowledge as soon as possible whether the above terms are acceptable in order to issue the contract. > >Thank you. > >Francis Ronquillo >Personnel Associate >Division For Environmental Programmes >United Nations Office for Project Services > >The Chrysler Building >405 Lexington Avenue, 4th floor >New York, N.Y. 10174 >USA > >Tel. no. (212) 457 1883 >Fax no. (212) 457 4044 >Email: FrancisR@unops.org > > *************************************************************************** Dr Mike Hulme Reader in Climatology tel: +44 1603 593162 Climatic Research Unit fax: +44 1603 507784 School of Environmental Science email: m.hulme@uea.ac.uk University of East Anglia web site: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~mikeh/ Norwich NR4 7TJ *************************************************************************** Annual mean temperature in Central England for 1999 is currently about +1.2 deg C above the 1961-90 average *************************************************** The estimated global-mean surface air temperature anomaly for 1999 is +0.33 deg C above the 1961-90 average, the 5th warmest year yet recorded ***************************************************************************