text: 6. Mr. PIRSON (Belgium) regretted that he had not had time to consider in depth the statement made at the morning meeting by the Chairman of ICSC, since it evoked a whole series of questions that could well be the topic of lengthy debate. He would confine himself, however, to a few of the outstanding points. 7. He wished to know what was to be done about the European duty stations, where the Committee had been told that current levels of post adjustment were 1 per cent to 23 per cent too high. Nothing had been proposed so far by ICSC to stanch that haemorrhage of public funds. Furthermore the change from the WAPA system of I ... A/C.S/38/SR.SO English Page 4 (Mr. Pirson, Belgium) calculating pensionable remuneration to the use of the United States Consumer Price Index had meant that in the last year average pensionable remuneration had risen to 137.3 per cent of the base and was still rising. The WAPA system had become unsatisfactory because of the weakness of the United States dollar in Europe, but the dollar had since appreciated against the European currencies. The formula for pensionable remuneration was clearly unreasonable, but the Committee had been told merely that ICSC had not yet reached a conclusion on the desirable level. Yet, ICSC had been asked at the thirty-sixth session of the General Assembly to develop a methodology for comparing total compensation in the United Nations with that in comparator civil service. No such methodology had been presented to the thirty-seventh or the thirty-eighth sessions of the General Assembly and the Committee had now been told only that ICSC hoped to make recommendations to the thirty-ninth session. ICSC must look at the facts: the system as it stood was not 
analysis: The text appears to be discussing issues related to international civil service and the payment of pensions and benefits to United Nations staff. The speaker is critical of the current system and is advocating for changes to be made. The language used is formal and technical, suggesting that the discussion is taking place in an institutional setting.