A/RES/65/247 (i) Staff members of the United Nations Secretariat who have accrued at least five years of continuous service on fixed-term appointments, including periods of service in an entity that applies the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations; (ii) Staff members who were previously appointed under the 100, 200 or 300 series of the Staff Rules and who have been appointed since 1 July 2009 on a fixed-term appointment under the provisional staff rules after a competitive process under staff rule 4.15 if they have served for five years continuously; (b) They must not be national staff recruited for field missions; (c) They must not be international or locally recruited staff recruited for service in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda or the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; (d) They must have received a performance rating of at least “Meets expectations” or equivalent in the four most recent performance appraisal reports, and must not have been subject to any disciplinary measure during the five years prior to their consideration for the granting of a continuing contract; (e) They must have at least seven years of service remaining before reaching the mandatory age of separation; 54. Decides that internationally recruited staff in the Professional and higher categories as well as staff in the Field Service category who satisfy the eligibility criteria for the granting of continuing contracts, as set out in paragraph 53 of the present resolution, shall be allocated points, as set out in the annex to the present resolution, for the following additional criteria: (a) Performance ratings of above “Meets expectations” or equivalent in the four most recent performance appraisal reports; (b) Service in duty stations with hardship classification of A, B, C, D or E of at least one year in each duty station; (c) station; Service in non-family duty stations of at least one year in each duty (d) Geographical mobility, defined as movement between two duty stations in different countries, with continuous periods of service of at least one year in each duty station; (e) Functional mobility, defined as continuous periods of service of at least one year each in more than one job family; (f) Proficiency in one official language of the United Nations other than one’s mother tongue; (g) Each additional year of service beyond five years; 55. Also decides that General Service and other locally recruited staff who satisfy the eligibility criteria for the granting of continuing contracts, as set out in paragraph 53 of the present resolution, shall be allocated points, as set out in the annex to the present resolution, for the criteria indicated in subparagraphs (a), (e), (f) and (g) of paragraph 54 of the present resolution; 56. Further decides that staff members identified in paragraph 51 of the present resolution who satisfy the eligibility criteria for continuing contracts will be granted continuing contracts, subject to the availability of contracts within the 7