Personnel Questions Resolutions

A/RES/42/220View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 122 Personnel questions, published in 1988.

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41 documents · 1979–1993

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 1993).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1993	A/RES/47/226[IV]	Personnel questions	—	–
1993	A/RES/47/226[III]	Personnel questions	—	–
1993	A/RES/47/226[II]	Personnel questions	—	–
1993	A/RES/47/226[I]	Personnel questions	—	–
1993	A/RES/47/226	Personnel questions	—	–

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15 operative paragraphs

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Urges the Secretary-General to keep under review 1. the freeze on the recruitment of external candidates with a view to lifting the freeze at the earliest possible date and to report to the General Assembly on possible alternatives to the policy of suspending such recruitment;

Requests the Secretary-General, whenever making appointments to posts subject to geographical distribu tion, to make every effort to recruit nationals of unrepre sented and underrepresented Member States and candi dates successful in the national competitive examinations,

taking into consideration also paragraph 4 of resolution 41/206 A;

Also requests the Secretary-General, as part of the elaboration of the career development policies and prac tices in the Secretariat and bearing in mind Article 101 of the Charter and resolution 41/213, to give urgent consid eration to the necessity of increasing the mobility of staff in the Professional category and, in particular, the move ment of such staff between Headquarters offices and offices in the field;

Further requests the Secretary-General, bearing in mind resolution 41/213, to conduct a comprehensive re view of the career development policies and practices for all staff, in particular staff in the General Service category;

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Recalling its resolution 41/206 B of 11 December 1986 on the composition of the upper echelons of the Se cretariat and its resolution 41/213 by which it, inter alia, approved the recommendations of the Group of High level Intergovernmental Experts to Review the Efficiency of the Administrative and Financial Functioning of the United Nations,22 in particular those concerning the up-

SJ A/42/636. per echelons of the Secretariat, that is, the Under secretary-General and Assistant Secretary-General levels,

Reaffirming that no post should be considered the exclu sive preserve of any Member State or group of States and that the Secretary-General should ensure that this princi ple is applied faithfully in accordance with the principle of equitable geographical distribution,

Taking note of the negative effect of the reduction of posts on the representation of Member States in the upper echelons of the Secretariat,

Requests the Secretary-General, in order to preserve the principles of equitable geographical distribution and of rotation in the upper echelons of the Secretariat, to ensure that equal opportunity is given to candidates of all Mem ber States when making appointments to all posts in the upper echelons;

Reaffirms that the Secretary-General, in making ap 2. pointments to the upper echelons, should strive to appoint only a candidate from a Member State other than that of the incumbent to be replaced in order to reinforce the principle of rotation in the upper echelons of the Se cretariat, unless there are exceptional circumstances, in the light of Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter;

Requests the Secretary-General to review the com position of the upper echelons of the Secretariat in the context of the relevant recommendations of the Group of High-level Intergovernmental Experts to Review the Effi ciency of the Administrative and Financial Functioning of the United Nations, with particular reference to length of service in the upper echelons;

III.Recalling its resolutions 35/210,

40/258 A of 18 December 1985 and 41 /206 C of 11 December 1986 and other relevant resolutions,

Having examined the repbrt of the Secretary-General on the system of desirable ranges for the geographical distri bution of staff in the Professional category and above, 54

Requests the Secretary-General to base the desirable ranges for all Member States, with effect from I January 1988, on the following criteria:

The base figure for the calculations will initially be 2,700;

The weight of the membership factor will be 40 per cent of the base figure;

The population factor, which will be allotted a weight of 5 per cent, will be directly related to the popula tion of Member States and posts subject to this factor will be distributed among Member States in proportion to their population;

The contribution factor will be based on the distri bution of the remaining posts among Member States in proportion to the scale of assessments;

The upper and lower limits of each range will be based on a flexibility of 15 per cent upwards and down wards from the mid-point of the desirable range, but not less than 4.8 posts up and down, the upper limit of the range being not less than 14 posts;

The base figure will be adjusted whenever the ac tual number of posts subject to geographical distribution increases or decreases by 100, the weights of the three fac tors being maintained;

S4 A/C.5/42/7 and Corr. I.

Decides to review the desirable ranges at its forty fifth session, taking into account the concept of parity be tween the membership and contribution factors and the views of Member States on this concept and also giving due consideration to the requirement of raising the per centage weight of the population factor;

IV Requests the Secretary-General to review the content and presentation of the annual report on the composition of the Secretariat, taking into account the views expressed by Member States at the forty-second session, and to in clude in the next report the action taken to implement the present resolution.

VIII. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN THE SECRETARIAT IMPROVEMENT OF THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE SECRETARIAT

63 Ojjicial Record, of the General As,embly, Forly-sccond Session, Sufflement No. 30 (A/42/30 and Corr. I).

Ibid., Supplement l\'u. 7A (A/42/7/Add.l-10), document A/ 42/7/ Add.7; A/C.5/42/14, A/C.5/42/20, A/C.5/42/23 and A/ C.5/42/.>8.

61 Ibid .. Fortiech Session, Supplemenl No. 30 (A/40/30 and Corr. I)

Personnel Questions Resolutions

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III.Recalling its resolutions 35/210,

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