Seconded Active-Duty Military and Police Personnel

A/RES/75/292View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 146 Human resources management, published in 2021.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 2020–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/78/292

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/78/292	Seconded active-duty military and police personnel	436	33%Compare
2021	A/RES/75/292	Seconded active-duty military and police personnel	707	—
2020	A/RES/74/254 B	Seconded active-duty military and police personnel	—	—
2020	A/RES/74/254 A	Seconded active-duty military and police personnel	—	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2020

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2020	A/75/646	Seconded active-duty military and police personnel report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/74/254 B

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Military Personnel Peacekeeping Operations Police Secondment

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, subject to the provisions of the present resolution;

Notes the outreach and engagement that the United Nations has undertaken with Member States on this matter and the options presented by the Secretary-General in his report for resolving issues involving the engagement of seconded active-duty military and police personnel, in particular conflicts between national legislation and the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations,³ and requests the Secretary-General to intensify his efforts in this regard;

³ST/SGB/2018/1/Rev.1.

Recalls paragraph 4 of its resolution 74/254 B, stresses that the selection of staff members, including seconded active-duty military and police personnel, should be made in accordance with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to enable the participation of all Member States in seconding active-duty military and police personnel, and urges the Secretary-General to make every effort to facilitate timely onboarding and repatriation of seconded personnel;

Urges the Secretary-General to continue to ensure accountability and impartiality of the seconded active-duty military and police personnel through applicable and relevant standards and supervision;

Recognizes the importance of the roles carried out and the expertise provided by seconded active-duty military and police personnel in fulfilling United Nations mandates, and requests the Secretary-General to continue to actively engage in the efforts to improve their timely onboarding, using the various tools at his disposal to address challenges beyond the control of the selected active-duty military and police personnel and which prevent their timely onboarding and to report thereon in his next report;

Requests the Secretary-General to intensify his efforts to ensure equal opportunities for seconded active-duty military and police personnel from all Member States;

Also requests the Secretary-General to consider placing the selected active-duty military and police personnel who cannot report to duty promptly owing to onboarding challenges beyond their control against similar positions at the same duty station once the challenges are addressed;

Takes note of paragraph 23 of the report of the Advisory Committee, and requests the Secretary-General to carry out a comprehensive assessment of the practical impact, including on Member States, of the different options and possible combinations of options outlined in his report, taking into consideration lessons learned from the implementation of existing agreements and the need to secure continuous protection of the pension rights of the seconded personnel, and to provide the assessment to the General Assembly for its consideration at its seventy-eighth session;

Authorizes the Secretary-General to continue to enter into agreements with Member States to prevent duplication in the payment of salaries, benefits and allowances to active-duty seconded military and police personnel and to report thereon, including on the lessons learned, in the context of his next report to the General Assembly;

Invites the Secretary-General to reach out to the Member States without agreements with the Secretariat and to encourage them to sign such agreements if their national legislation is in conflict with the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations;

Takes note of paragraph 27 of the report of the Advisory Committee, and decides to authorize the Secretary-General to extend the exceptional measures regarding seconded active-duty military and police personnel until 1 July 2024;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide, during the first part of the resumed seventy-seventh session, an informal briefing on the status of and the initial findings from the implementation of bilateral agreements and progress in the preparation of the analysis and assessment of options and combinations of options to be outlined in the report of the Secretary-General.

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