A/RES/51/226
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IV. REDEPLOYMENT
1.
Notes the impact of the economy measures on the personnel policies
of the Organization;
2.
Recognizes the need to maintain an adequate environment in the
Secretariat and to sustain the morale of staff members;
3.
Reiterates its request contained in paragraph 12 of its resolution
51/221 B of 18 December 1996, and decides to consider the report on the
situation of staff members on the redeployment list as a matter of priority
during the next part of its resumed fifty-first session;
4.
Recognizes that measures related to personnel matters invoked in
order to obtain savings should not entail changes in the Staff Regulations and
Rules without the prior approval of the General Assembly;
V. RATIO BETWEEN CAREER AND FIXED-TERM APPOINTMENTS
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General on the ratio between
career and fixed-term appointments,11
1.
Underlines the importance of the concept of career service for
staff members performing continuing core functions;
2.
Requests the Secretary-General to make efforts to achieve the
level of 70 per cent of permanent appointments in posts subject to
geographical distribution and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its
fifty-third session;
3.
Decides that five years of continuing service as stipulated
resolution 37/126 of 17 December 1982 do not confer the automatic right
permanent appointment, and also decides that other considerations, such
outstanding performance, the operational realities of the organizations
the core functions of the post, should be duly taken into account;
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4.
Endorses in principle the introduction of a dual-track system of
career and non-career appointments, and requests the Secretary-General to
submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session detailed proposals
for the implementation of that system, including a definition of continuing
core functions with a full explanation of the manner in which such a
definition would be applied and the text of any necessary amendments to the
Staff Regulations and Rules that would be required in order to implement the
new system;
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