United Nations
A/RES/68/253
General Assembly
Distr.: General
24 January 2014
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 141
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 27 December 2013
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/68/684)]
68/253. United Nations common system: report of the
International Civil Service Commission
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 44/198 of 21 December 1989, 51/216 of 18 December
1996, 52/216 of 22 December 1997, 53/209 of 18 December 1998, 55/223 of
23 December 2000, 56/244 of 24 December 2001, 57/285 of 20 December 2002,
58/251 of 23 December 2003, 59/268 of 23 December 2004, 60/248 of 23 December
2005, 61/239 of 22 December 2006, 62/227 of 22 December 2007, 63/251 of
24 December 2008, 64/231 of 22 December 2009, 65/248 of 24 December 2010,
66/235 A of 24 December 2011, 66/235 B of 21 June 2012 and 67/257 of 12 April
2013 and its decisions 67/551 and 67/552 A of 24 December 2012,
Having considered the report of the International Civil Service Commission
for 2013, 1
Reaffirming its commitment to a single, unified United Nations common
system as the cornerstone for the regulation and coordination of the conditions of
service of the common system,
1.
Takes note with great appreciation of the work of the International Civil
Service Commission;
2.
Takes note of the report of the Commission for 2013; 1
3.
Reaffirms the role of the General Assembly in approving conditions of
service and entitlements for all staff serving in the organizations of the United
Nations common system, bearing in mind articles 10 and 11 of the statute of the
Commission; 2
4.
Recalls articles 10 and 11 of the statute of the Commission, and reaffirms
the central role of the Commission in regulating and coordinating conditions of
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 30 (A/68/30).
Resolution 3357 (XXIX), annex.
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