A/RES/50/208 Page 4 III WORK PROGRAMME Recalling section V, paragraph 2, of its resolution 48/224, in which it urged the International Civil Service Commission to devote further attention to personnel management issues, 1. Requests the International Civil Service Commission to examine means of reducing the costs of its studies; 2. Also requests the Commission and the executive heads organizations of the United Nations common system to ensure that attention is given to all aspects of human resources management, improvement of non-monetary aspects of conditions of service, as example, in article 14 of the statute of the Commission; of the adequate including the set out, for 3. Further requests the Commission to give priority to the matters addressed in section I of the present resolution in its programme of work; IV FUNCTIONING OF THE COMMISSION Recalling section II, paragraph 5, of its resolution 49/223, in which it requested the staff bodies, the organizations and the International Civil Service Commission to review with all urgency how the consultative process of the Commission could best be furthered and to report thereon to the General Assembly, 1. Reaffirms the validity of the statute of the International Civil Service Commission and in particular article 6 thereof, whereby its members shall perform their functions in full independence and with impartiality; 2. Welcomes the Commission’s decision, as contained in paragraphs 54 to 56 of its report, 1/ to implement a number of measures to improve its effectiveness and to introduce, on a trial basis, revised arrangements for the timing and length of its sessions, and, in that context, requests the Commission to enhance further the transparency of its work, taking into account the relevant articles of the statute and its rules of procedure; 3. Calls upon Member States and the Secretary-General, in the context of articles 3 and 4 of the statute of the Commission, to ensure through the selection process of candidates for appointment that the Commission has the requisite technical skills and broad managerial experience among its membership; 4. Notes that the representatives of the Coordinating Committee for International Staff Unions and Associations of the United Nations System and the Federation of International Civil Servants’ Associations have both suspended participation in the work of the Commission, and calls upon those bodies to resume participation in the work of the Commission in a spirit of cooperation and non-confrontation; 5. Requests the Commission to ensure that its reports contain clear and readily understandable explanations of its technical recommendations. 100th plenary meeting 23 December 1995