United Nations Technical Assistance in Public Administration

A/RES/1256(XIII)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1959.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Experts National Professional Staff Public Administration Technical Cooperation Training Programmes

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8 operative paragraphs

Takes note with satisfaction of the results already achieved by the United Nations technical assistance programmes in the field of public administration;

Authorizes the Secretary-General to supplement these programmes with a view to :

Assisting Governments participating in these programmes, at their request, to secure on a temporary basis the services of well qualified persons to perform duties of an executive or operational character as may be defined by the requesting Governments, and as servants of such Governments, it being understood that such duties shall normally include the training of nationals to assume as early as possible the responsibilities temporarily assigned to these internationally recruited experts;

( b) Assisting the interested Governments, as necessary, to meet the expenses which the employment of these experts will involve ;

Decides that any Government requesting such assistance should contribute towards the total cost of employment of each expert an amount not less than the total emoluments of one of its nationals performing similar duties;

Authorizes the Secretary-General to negotiate agreements defining the relationship to be established between the United Nations, the experts and the Governments concerned, including the terms and conditions of employment of the experts ;

Recommends further that, whenever requests for assistance fall within the competence of a specialized agency, no action shall be taken without prior consultation and agreement with that agency ;

Decides that this assistance shall be provided on a modest scale and on an experimental basis, using the existing machinery of the United Nations Secretariat and without any increase in administrative costs ;

Invites the Secretary-General to report in detail, to the Economic and Social Council at its twenty-eighth session and to the General Assembly at its fourteenth session, on the progress of this experiment.

14 November 1958.

chap. III, part B.

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