A/RES/55/258 making, business or other concern to benefit from such association or financial interest by reason of his or her position with the United Nations; 10. Decides to further consider the issue of a robust monitoring capacity in the Office for Human Resources Management for the monitoring of all relevant activities in the Secretariat, regardless of the source of their funding, and requests the SecretaryGeneral to provide an analytical and thorough report thereon to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session; VIII Streamlined rules and procedures Notes the ongoing efforts of the Secretary-General mentioned in paragraphs 27 to 32 of his report10 regarding the elimination of documentation relating to obsolete and redundant rules and procedures, and requests that the General Assembly be informed at its fifty-sixth session on the details of the documentation being eliminated; IX Consultants Decides to consider the question of the use of consultants and individual contractors at its fifty-sixth session, and requests the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions to present its reports to the General Assembly at the main part of its fifty-sixth session on the relevant reports of the Secretary-General11 and the Joint Inspection Unit;12 X Composition of the Secretariat Noting that the relative weight of the population factor in the calculation of desirable ranges for the implementation of posts was reduced to 5 per cent from 7.2 per cent in section III of General Assembly resolution 42/220 A of 21 December 1987, Also noting that posts subject to geographical distribution have witnessed a decrease, from 3,350 to 2,700 to the current 2,600, Further noting the increase in the number of Member States and the gradual decrease in the number of non-represented and under-represented Member States in the United Nations Secretariat, Bearing in mind that the new scales of assessment, which will have a direct bearing on the desirable ranges currently being followed, have been adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2000,13 1. Reaffirms that, in accordance with its resolutions 41/206 A of 11 December 1986 and 53/221 of 7 April 1999, no post should be considered the exclusive preserve of any Member State or group of States, including at the highest levels, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure that, as a general rule, no national of a Member State succeeds 10 A/55/253 and Corr.1. A/55/321 and A/55/451. 12 A/55/59 and Add.1. 13 Resolutions 55/5 B and 55/235. 11 7

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