A/RES/49/222 Page 3 7. Welcomes the efforts of the Secretary-General to develop and strengthen the internship and fellowship programmes, regrets that there may be a need temporarily to postpone the implementation of these programmes, and requests the Secretary-General to make every effort to identify resources for this purpose and would welcome the contributions of Member States to that end; 8. Notes that the strategy for the management of the human resources of the Organization requires the active implementation, as a management tool, over a period of several years beginning in 1995, of an enhanced attrition programme, and requests the Secretary-General to report on the initial phase of implementation of the programme in the context of the agenda item on the proposed programme budget for the biennium 1996-1997, together with proposals on the longer-term management of separation and retention, and the future use of agreed separation arrangements after the current programme has been completed, with a view to avoiding the need for such programmes in the future; 9. Notes also that the strategy calls for mobility on the part of all new internationally recruited staff, that staff regulation 1.2 gives the Secretary-General the authority to assign all internationally recruited staff to any of the activities or offices of the United Nations, and therefore urges the Secretary-General to apply the mobility elements of the new strategy to internationally recruited staff; 10. Requests the Secretary-General to give particular attention to effective vacancy management in implementing the new strategy for the management of human resources; 11. Endorses the recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions contained in paragraph 7 of its report, 5/ requests the Secretary-General to integrate, for budgetary presentation and management purposes, Professional posts P-1 and P-2, and P-3 and P-4, and requests that these recommendations be implemented on an experimental basis in his proposed programme budget for the biennium 1996-1997; 12. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to hold national competitive examinations at the P-1 and P-2 levels as a useful tool to select the best-qualified candidates; 13. Also requests the Secretary-General to continue to hold national competitive examinations at the P-3 level, with due regard to the promotion prospects at the P-2 level and a maximum of efficiency and economy; 14. Urges the Secretary-General to take all the necessary measures to ensure that successful candidates at the P-2 and P-3 levels are offered positions within one year after their selection, subject to the availability of approved posts; 15. Requests the Secretary-General to give due priority to training and implementation of the strategy in drafting the proposed programme budget for the biennium 1996-1997; 5/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 7A, document A/48/7/Add.11. /...