A/RES/61/240 IX Diversification Recalling its resolutions 36/119 A to C of 10 December 1981 and 59/269, 1. Takes note with concern of the modest increases in investments of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund in developing countries, and requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-third session on further steps and efforts undertaken to increase, to the maximum extent possible, investments in developing countries; Reaffirms the policy of diversification of the investments of the Fund 2. across geographical areas, wherever this serves the interests of the participants and beneficiaries of the Fund, in accordance with the four criteria of safety, profitability, liquidity and convertibility. 84th plenary meeting 22 December 2006 7