AG/RES. 1525 (XXVII-O/97)

PERSONNEL POLICY

(Resolution adopted at the seventh plenary session, held on June 5, 1997)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN the report of the Permanent Council on personnel policy, which contains the report of the Working Group on Personnel Policy of its Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Affairs (CP/doc.2912/97); and

CONSIDERING that, in resolution AG/RES. 1381 (XXVI-O/96), the General Assembly requested the Permanent Council "to establish a working group that shall define, in conjunction with the General Secretariat, a single coherent global personnel policy, in accordance with the actual needs of the Organization,"

RESOLVES:

1. To request the Permanent Council to conclude, through its Working Group on Personnel Policy, its study of the document "Creation of New Categories of Temporary Employment: Temporary Professional Staff Consultants and Temporary Support Personnel" (CP/doc.2884/97) by July 30, 1997.

2. To authorize the Permanent Council to adopt and implement the amendments to the General Standards to Govern the Operations of the General Secretariat that it deems appropriate with regard to that document by July 30, 1997.

3. To request the Permanent Council to report to the General Assembly at its twenty-eighth regular session on the amendments adopted and on the outcome of their application.

4. To take note of the proposal by the General Secretariat to reestablish a staff performance evaluation system in the Organization; and to instruct it to implement the system as soon as possible, according to the schedule presented to the Working Group, and to report on the functioning of the new system to the General Assembly at its next regular session.

5. To request the Permanent Council, through the Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Affairs, to study the categories of employment of support personnel of the Offices of the General Secretariat in the Member States; and to adopt any changes it deems appropriate, sufficiently in advance for them to be included in the program-budget for 1998.

6. To reiterate the importance of appropriate geographical distribution of General Secretariat staff, and to urge the General Secretariat to implement this mandate, set forth in Article 119 of the Charter of the Organization.

7. To urge the General Secretariat to recognize the importance of contracting and hiring women and members of minority groups, particularly at high levels of the General Secretariat.

8. To take note of the report of the Permanent Council on personnel policy, and to extend the mandate given to the Permanent Council through resolution AG/RES. 1381 (XXVI-O/96) until the twenty-eighth regular session of the General Assembly.