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9.
Authorizes the Secretary-General, for a trial period of two years during
which the procedures would be fully developed, to establish a special roster of
candidates from unrepresented and underrepresented Member States, as proposed in
paragraphs 21 and 22 of his report, 9 for a number of posts at the P-4 and P-5 levels
only, until such Member States are within the desirable ranges, and requests the
Secretary-General to report thereon to the General Assembly at its sixty-first
session;
10. Welcomes the practice of conducting recruitment missions to
unrepresented and underrepresented Member States, and requests the SecretaryGeneral to intensify those efforts in order to increase the number of recruits from
those Member States after going through the regular recruitment procedures for
advertised vacancies;
11. Reiterates its request contained in section II, paragraph 29, of its
resolution 57/305 that the Secretary-General set specific targets as well as develop a
programme for achieving equitable geographical representation;
12. Notes the number of overrepresented countries under the system of
desirable ranges, and requests the Secretary-General to provide the General
Assembly with analytical information on this issue in the framework of his report on
the composition of the Secretariat;
13. Reaffirms that, in accordance with its resolutions 41/206 B of
11 December 1986, 53/221, 55/258 and 57/305, no post should be considered the
exclusive preserve of any Member State or group of States, including at the highest
levels, and reiterates its request that the Secretary-General ensure that, as a general
rule, no national of a Member State succeeds a national of that State in a senior post
and that there is no monopoly on senior posts by nationals of any State or group of
States, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session;
V
System of equitable geographical distribution
1.
Reiterates its request that the Secretary-General, as approved in its
resolution 42/220 A of 21 December 1987, fully reach the level of posts subject to
geographical distribution, which currently stands at 2,783;
Also reiterates its request that the Secretary-General submit the report
2.
requested in section IX, paragraph 2, of its resolution 57/305, which will include an
assessment of the issues related to possible changes in the number of posts subject
to the system of geographical distribution, and requests the Secretary-General to
submit the report to the General Assembly by the second part of its resumed fiftyninth session;
Recalls section IX, paragraph 1, of its resolution 57/305, and decides to
3.
revert to this subject at its sixty-first session;
4.
Requests the Board of Auditors to conduct an audit of the implementation
of the principle of equitable geographical representation in the Secretariat at all
levels, as set out in relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, and to verify the
application of established measures of transparency and accountability at all levels
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