A/RES/65/247
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Recruitment and staffing
11. Reiterates that the Secretary-General has
standards of efficiency, competence and integrity
consideration in the employment of staff, with due
equitable geographical distribution, in accordance with
the Charter of the United Nations;
to ensure that the highest
serve as the paramount
regard to the principle of
Article 101, paragraph 3, of
12. Regrets that the Secretary-General is of the view that all-encompassing
workforce planning for the Secretariat is of limited value and that he has not
presented an Organization-wide strategic workforce plan;
13. Recognizes that workforce planning should be considered an ongoing
process, that the staffing requirements of the Organization are contingent upon
mandates and that there is scope for the Secretary-General in forecasting future
staffing requirements for major occupational groups, including the number of staff
needed and the skill sets required;
14. Requests the Secretary-General to report on progress achieved in this
regard to the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session in the context of his
report on human resources management;
15. Also requests the Secretary-General to continue to ensure equal treatment
of candidates with equivalent educational backgrounds during the recruitment process,
taking fully into account the fact that Member States have different education
systems and that no education system shall be considered the standard to be applied
by the Organization;
16. Expresses deep concern at the persistently high vacancy rates in the
Organization, in particular in field missions, and the high turnover of staff, especially
in difficult duty stations, which has a detrimental effect on the implementation of
the mandates of the Organization, and requests the Secretary-General to fill all
vacancies in an expeditious manner;
17. Recognizes the paramount importance of speeding up the recruitment and
staffing process, in accordance with Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter;
18. Takes note of paragraphs 11 and 12 of the report of the Advisory
Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,5 decides that, for the time
being, the period for the circulation of specific job openings will remain at 60 days,
and requests the Secretary-General to conduct a comprehensive review of the entire
recruitment process to improve the overall response time with a view to realizing
the benchmark of 120 days for filling a post, and to report thereon to the General
Assembly at its sixty-seventh session;
19. Recalls paragraph 13 of the report of the Advisory Committee on
Administrative and Budgetary Questions,5 and requests the Secretary-General to
delete the special procedures for the selection of external candidates from the staff
selection system;
20. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that all administrative instructions
and any other internal instructions on human resources as well as any informationtechnology-related applications are in full compliance with the relevant resolutions
of the General Assembly;
21. Emphasizes the importance of the participation of staff representatives in
the work of the central review bodies, and requests the Secretary-General and invites
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