A/RES/53/221 Page 6 11. Requests the Secretary-General to review the internal system of justice in order to ensure the timely, fair and effective administration of justice; V RECRUITMENT AND PLACEMENT Recognizing the value of staff mobility to the Organization, 1. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the highest standards of efficiency, competence and integrity serve as the paramount consideration in the employment of staff, with due regard to the principle of equitable geographical distribution, in accordance with Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations; 2. Reiterates that the recruitment, appointment and promotion of staff shall be made without distinction as to race, sex or religion, in accordance with principles of the Charter and the provisions of the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations; 3. Requests the Secretary-General, as a matter of priority, to ascertain whether racial discrimination exists in recruitment, promotion and placement, in order to ensure full compliance with the provisions of the Charter, the regulations and rules of the Organization and the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, and to report thereon to the Assembly at the main part of its fifty-fifth session; 4. Reiterates that external vacancy announcements should continue to be submitted to the permanent missions of Member States and be displayed on the notice boards in United Nations premises, as well as posted on the United Nations home page, and decides that they should be effectively circulated on the date of issue and that the deadline for the submission of applications should be at least two months from the date of issue; 5. Requests the Secretary-General to circulate internal vacancy announcements to permanent missions when issued; 6. Endorses the recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions in paragraph 8 of its report on internal vacancies in the Secretariat;6 7. Reaffirms the policy of the Secretary-General to circulate vacancies for posts at the P-5 level and above both internally and externally; 8. Decides that the Secretary-General may consider external candidates for posts at the P-4 level, while giving fullest regard, in filling these posts, to the requisite qualifications and experience of staff already in the service of the United Nations; 6 A/53/691. /...