A/RES/55/258 1. Requests the Secretary-General to develop further criteria for mobility to maximize its benefits for the Organization and to ensure the fair and equitable treatment of all staff and to avoid its possible abuse as an instrument of coercion against staff, taking into account job security in the Organization and other relevant factors, such as an appropriate incentive scheme and assurances of onward assignment; 2. Requests the International Civil Service Commission to conduct a comprehensive review of the question of mobility and its implications on career development of staff members in the United Nations system and report to the General Assembly during the course of its fifty-seventh session; 3. Notes the difference between mobility within a duty station and mobility across duty stations, and considers that the latter should be a more important factor in career development; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to develop further appropriate mechanisms for promotion with a view to introducing adequate incentives for mobility between duty stations, including the possibility of promotion for staff subject to such mobility; 5. Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure that lateral mobility does not negatively affect the continuity and quality of the services required for the implementation of mandated programmes and activities; 6. Stresses that mobility of staff should not lead to the transfer or abolition of posts as a result of vacancy; 7. Requests the Secretary-General for proposals to solve problems resulting from increasing staff mobility; 8. Also requests the Secretary-General to encourage and recognize outstanding job performance of United Nations staff, especially in exceptional circumstances; VI Proposed amendment to staff rule 104.14 Decides to approve the proposed amendment9 to staff rule 104.14, subject to the following provisions: (a) The central review bodies shall review the recruitment process for compliance with the pre-approved selection criteria and shall offer recommendations. Where these recommendations are not in line with those of the relevant manager, it shall transmit its recommendations to the Secretary-General for a final decision who shall give due consideration to the recommendations of the central review bodies; (b) The three staff representatives and the alternates shall be selected by the appropriate staff representative body; (c) One additional member of the Central Review Boards shall be selected jointly by the representatives of the Secretary-General and the staff members appointed to the Boards; (d) Members of the Central Review Boards, and alternates if any, shall be appointed for a period of two years and shall serve for a maximum of four years; 9 A/55/253 and Corr.1, annex X. 5