A/RES/61/244. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2006

• Resolution Number: A/RES/61/244
• Year: 2006
• Session: 61st
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/61/244

General Assembly Distr.: General

30 January 2007

Sixty-first session

Agenda items 47, 113, 116, 117, 122, 123, 132, 147 and 149

06-50901

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2006

[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/61/659)]

61/244. Human resources management

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

Articles 8, 97, 100 and 101 of the Charter of the United Nations,

Recalling also

its resolutions 49/222 A and B of 23 December 1994 and

20 July 1995, 51/226 of 3 April 1997, 52/219 of 22 December 1997, 52/252 of

8 September 1998, 53/221 of 7 April 1999, 55/258 of 14 June 2001, 57/305 of

15 April 2003, 58/296 of 18 June 2004, 59/266 of 23 December 2004, 60/1 of

16 September 2005 and 60/260 of 8 May 2006, as well as its other relevant

resolutions and decisions,

Having considered

the relevant reports on human resources management

questions submitted to the General Assembly for its consideration

1

and the related

report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,

2

Reaffirming

that the staff of the United Nations is an invaluable asset of the

Organization, and commending its contribution to furthering the purposes and

principles of the United Nations,

Paying tribute

to the memory of all staff members who have lost their lives in

the service of the Organization,

I

Human resources management reform

1.

Expresses

concern

over the fact that staff representatives from New York

did not participate in the consultation process, stresses the importance of a

meaningful dialogue on human resources management issues between staff and

management, and calls upon both parties to intensify efforts to overcome differences

and to resume the consultative process;

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1 A/59/388, A/59/526 and Add.1, A/59/716, A/59/724, A/59/786, A/60/262, A/60/310, A/60/861,

A/61/201, A/61/228 and Corr.1, A/61/255 and Add.1 and Add.1/Corr.1, A/61/257 and Corr.1 and Add.1-3

and Add.1/Corr.1, A/61/274 and A/61/319.

2 A/61/537.