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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/53/119
5 February 1999
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 103
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/53/618)]
53/119. Improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat
The General Assembly,
Recalling Articles 1 and 101 of the Charter of the United Nations, as well as Article 8, which provides
that the United Nations shall place no restrictions on the eligibility of men and women to participate in any
capacity and under conditions of equality in its principal and subsidiary organs,
Recalling also the goal, contained in the Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference
on Women,1 of the achievement of overall gender equality, particularly at the Professional level and above, by
the year 2000,
Recalling further its resolution 52/96 of 12 December 1997 on the improvement of the status of women
in the Secretariat,
Welcoming the progress made in improving the representation of women at the D-1 level and above, in
particular the achievement of the interim goal set in its resolution 45/239 C of 21 December 1990 of a 25 per
cent participation rate of women in posts at the D-1 level and above, but concerned that the representation of
women at those levels remains significantly low,
1
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.
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