text: Fifth Committee. It was a process which constantly confronted the Fifth Committee with the dilemma of accepting a supposedly objective process supported hy the Secretary-General or the judgement of the Advisory Committee. It was an irritatino I ... A/C.S/38/SR.34 English Page 5 (Mr. Ditz, Austria) exercise, which should impel the Secretariat to study the question and work out a more coherent and less arbitrary system of promoting the career prospects of staff so that the Fifth Committee would not have to engage every year in those eternal discussions concerning reclassification of posts. 22. Mr. NEGRE (Assistant-Secretary-General for Personnel Services) explained, in· reply to the question asked by the representative of Belgium, that his collaborator had been recruited at the P-5 level, on the recommendation of the Appointment and Promotion Committee and with the approval of the Secretary-General, because that action was justified by his qualifications and experience. He had had to transfer temporarily a post from the Division of Personnel Administration so that his Special Assistant could start work, since the Office of Personnel Services was engaged in a series of basic reforms for which he needed the services of his Special Assistant. The proposal to reclassify that post from P-4 to P-5 had been made in order to adjust the level of the post to that of its holder. Section 28I. General Services, Geneva 23. Mr. PEDERSEN (Canada) said that, as he understood it, the results of the introduction of word processing at Headquarters were to some extent being awaited before it was introduced at Geneva. In that case, he took it that, in the light of the New York experience and, in particular, taking into account the views of the Advisory Committee as expressed in its report (A/38/7, para. 38), the Secretariat 
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