United Nations
A/RES/61/239
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 February 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 125
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2006
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/61/663)]
61/239. 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 and 60/248 of 23 December 2005,
Having considered the reports of the International Civil Service Commission
for the years 2004, 1 2005 2 and 2006, 3 the note by the Secretariat transmitting the
report of the Panel on the Strengthening of the International Civil Service 4 and the
note by the Secretary-General on the findings and recommendations of the Panel, 5
Having also considered the notes by the Secretary-General on the Senior
Management Network 6 and the mobility and hardship allowance, 7
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 United Nations common system,
Convinced that the common system constitutes the best instrument through
which to secure staff with the highest standards of efficiency, competence and
integrity for the international civil service, as stipulated in the Charter of the United
Nations,
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1
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 30 (A/59/30), vols. I
and II.
2
Ibid., Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 30 and corrigendum (A/60/30 and Corr.1).
3
Ibid., Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 30 (A/61/30).
4
A/59/153.
5
A/59/399.
6
A/60/209.
7
A/60/723.
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