Revitalization of the United Nations Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Decides that the restructuring of the Secretariat is a vital part of the reform and revitalization of UN and should be aimed at: (a) enhancing the capacity of UN in the maintenance of international peace and security in the area of economic and social development; (b) ensuring effective implementation of the objectives of the Charter and of the mandates entrusted by the policy-making organs; (c) ensuring transparency in recruitment procedures and practices, including those for senior posts; (d) ensuring that the highest standards of efficiency, competence and integrity are the paramount considerations in the recruitment and performance of international civil servants; (e) ensuring a more effective application of the principle that the recruitment of staff should be on as wide a geographical basis as possible that there should be no monopoly on senior posts by nationals of any State or group of States; (f) improving the representation and status of women in the Secretariat, in particular its higher echelons; (g) ensuring the exclusively international character of the staff; (h) rationalizing the structure of the Secretariat by dividing its major activities along functional lines in a way that would group them into a limited number of consolidated departments; calls upon Member States to provide the conditions for the effective functioning of the Organization, in particular through the fulfilment of their financial obligations.

Adopted without vote, 82nd meeting

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Adopted at the 82nd plenary meeting, 2 March 1992.