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Officers will be treated with the consideration due their rank.

In this connection, the Committee will also comment on the proposed number and grading structure of the staff for the Situation Room.

28. Efforts continue to regularize the situation of staff members at Geneva whose current grade is higher than the posts they occupy.

88. Since 1980, approximately 35 officers a year, ranging in rank from captain to major, undergo a two month course at Solnechnogorsk.

In paragraph 148 of its report, the Board recommended that UNICEF minimize the number of staff members employed at post levels lower than their personal levels.

(h) It was suggested that more emphasis should be placed on the weighted ranges for the representation of Member States, for it was not only the number of nationals of a given State in the Secretariat that counted, but also their rank and position

Moreover, the officers had not been treated with the respect due to their rank, having often been made to look ridiculous in front of their men and forced to work in violation of articles 13, 44 and 49 of the Convention.

In a letter to all staff dated 8 March 2006, the High Commissioner announced a policy to ensure that staff members without assignments are offered posts corresponding to their grades and competency profiles.

To implement the revised human resources management system, staff at all levels of the organization will need to be trained not only in the skills needed to operate the new system, but also to establish a set of shared values which will be the foundation for objective performance evaluation and other personnel management actions.

219. The next point addressed by the Commission was the underfilling of posts, i.e. the practice whereby staff were assigned to positions at a higher level than their personal grade with the understanding that they did not meet all the requirements of that post and would have to fulfil certain conditions before being promoted to the higher level.

Requests the Secretary General, in view of the recent amendment of the concept of operations and force level of the Force, to conduct a review of the number and grade levels of support staff, including the possibility of utilizing United Nations Volunteers, and to report thereon to the General Assembly in the context of the next budget submission for the Force