Joint Inspection Unit : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Requests the Unit to continue to submit an advance version of its programme of work to the General Assembly; urges the Unit, as the only system-wide external oversight body, to continue to focus its work and reports, whenever possible, on issues of system-wide interest, value and relevance to the efficient and effective functioning of all organizations to which the Unit provides services; requests that future reports, to the extent possible, also include information on estimated savings, actual savings achieved, acceptance rate of recommendations and implementation status by impact category, particularly regarding system-wide or multi-agency recommendations; decides that, beginning on 1 Jan. 2008, the President of the General Assembly, will invite Member States to submit the names of the countries and their respective candidates simultaneously, on the understanding that the candidates submitted are the candidates that the respective Member States intend to propose, to the extent possible, for appointment by the General Assembly; invites the President of the General Assembly to submit to the 64th session of the General Assembly a report on the effective application of the above-mentioned selection procedures in enhancing efficiency in implementing article 3, paragraph 2, of the statute.

Adopted without vote, 84th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 61st sess., Suppl. no. 49.