text: detailed technical document ontheUnit'sreporttoAceinOctober 1984;those comments remained valid. Hefurther notedthattheInspectors' reportdidnot provide aviablebasisfordecision sinceitwasreplete witherrors, inconsistencies, misquotations andunsubstantiated conclusions. Most,ifnotall, oftheissuestakenupbytheInspectors hadbeendealtwithalready bythe Commission andsettled bythelegislative organsofthecommon system organizations. 86.Heexpressed theviewthat,whiletheJointInspection Unithadwide-ranging authority toinvestigate themanagement oftheorganizations oftheunitedNations system, theGeneral Assembly hadestablished another body,ICSC,fortheregulation andco-ordination ofconditions ofemployment inthecommon system. According to theirstatutes, theworking methods ofthosetwobodies wereverydifferent, the moststriking difference beingthatICSChadtoholdextensive consultations with theorganizations andthestaffrepresentatives. FICSAattached greatimportance tothoseconsultations. ThePresident ofFICSAconsidered thattheJoint Inspection Unithadencroached upontheprerogatives ofICSCanddisregarded all recognized common systemprocedures onstaff/management relations andonstaff consultation. Thesubmission ofthebiasedreporttothethirty-ninth session of theGeneral Assembly without anysafeguards orcomments hadcertainly influenced theclimate intheFifthCommittee andaddedtotheunfortunate confusion thathad finally ledtotheadoption ofdetrimental decisions onProfessional salaries and, inparticular, thepostadjustment system. FICSAlookedtotheCommission todo everything initspowertosettherecordstraight. 87.TheConvenor ofCCISUAobserved thattheconcerns ofthestaffwerenotso muchwiththeobvious preoccupation oftheJointInspection Unitwithsalary issues, whichseemedtooverlap withtheCommission's mandate, butwithother selective useoffactsandinflated rhetoric thatcharacterized thereport andgave itadeep-seated bias. Theworsteffect wastoundermine thecredibility ofthe JointInspection Unititself. TheUnitshouldconcentrate onwaystoimprove efficiency ratherthantryingtocomment onissues beyonditsscope. Astheunited Nations isaservice organization, itis,therefore, logical thatitapportion its resources largely tostaffwhoareresponsible forcarrying outservice programmes. 88.TheJointInspection UnitInspector concerned expressed theviewthatthe position ofCCAQwasnotobjective sinceitdidnottakeintoaccount theviewsof MemberStates andalmostcompletely ignored theNoblemaire principle. Withregard tothecomments presented inthedocument prepared bytheICSCsecretariat andto thecomments provided byFICSAinitsdocument, hethought thattheywereintended toconfuse further theissuesaddressed byproviding toomuchdetail. He considered threeissuestobeofparamount importance, whichhereauested should be addressed ontheirmerit, namely themannerinwhichthesecretariat hadanalysed Ca)annualleave, Cb)siCkleaveandCc)careerlength, inmaking thetotal compensation comparison between UnitedNations andunitedStatesfederal civil service officials incomparable positions. 89.Therepresentative oftheUnitedNations regretted theinclusion of paragraphs 77and78intheICSCsecretariat's document, whichconcerned theUnited Nations Secretariat. Hefailedtoseetherelationship between thetwoparagraphs, thatis,whyunresolved personnel andadministrative problems between theICSCand UnitedNations secretariats werebeingreferred totheJointInspection Unit. Moreover, thedefinition oftheobjectives andfunctions oftheUnitedNations was theconcern ofMemberStates, nottheJointInspection UnitorICSC. -23-;i i .1,I !93.TheCommi5sion decided tomakethefollowing observations afterhaving reviewed carefully thereportoftheJointInspection Unit,thecomments madeby ACCandtherepresentatives oforganizations andstaffonthereportoftheJoint Inspection UnitaswellasbytheInspector atitstwenty-second session: I •r -24----:-- --'.---~-;, ._~---~.- .._'_..---,\'" ~_..-- --"--,,,~~---,----_._-~~.,. __._., -~ ._-~ (a)TheUnitedNations General Assembly inresolution 3357(XXIX)ofDecisions oftheCommission92.TheCommission notedthatthewholeoftheInspector's report hadbeen referred toitforreview bytheGeneral Assembly including onesection andseveral
analysis: The text appears to be a technical document discussing the operations and management of international organizations, specifically the United Nations system. It mentions various aspects such as salaries, staff relations, and the role of different bodies within the organization. The language used is formal and technical, indicating a focus on administrative and organizational matters rather than a specific field like health, education, or science.