CAG Shashi Kant Sharma joins UN board of auditors

Takes over from Chinese Auditor-General Liu Jiayi at the sixty-eighth regular session of UN Board

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Shashi Kant Sharma took over as member of the United Nations board of auditors. Sharma took over the charge from Liu Jiayi, Auditor-General of the National Audit Office of the People's Republic of China at the sixty-eighth regular session of United Nations Board of Auditors held at the U N Headquarters, New York late last evening..

The other members of the Board are Amyas Morse, CAG, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Ludovick S. L. Utouh, CAG of the United Republic of Tanzania.

The Board of Auditors derives its mandate from a General Assembly Resolution of December 7, 1946 to audit the accounts and financial statements of the United Nations and its funds and programmes. The audit responsibilities entrusted to India include audit of UN Peace Keeping Operations, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) and the UN University as well as other UN offices and entities around the globe.

The audits are conducted in accordance with the financial regulations and rules of the United Nations and the International Standards on Auditing. In its meeting, the Board also reviewed and approved 23 audit reports for presentation to General Assembly and six reports to be presented to other Governing Bodies.