1981 United Nations Secretary-General selection straw polls, an innovation that became the standard method for selecting a Secretary-General in future open selections. Waldheim's defeat also confirmed the informal two-term limit on the office of Secretary-General, and Pérez's selection firmly established the principle of regional rotation. The Secretary-General of the United Nations is appointed by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Security Council. Therefore, candidates for the office can be vetoed by any of the permanent members. In 1981, Kurt Waldheim of Austria was finishing up his second term as Secretary-General, despite Chinese preferences for a Secretary-General from the Third World. In the 1971
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3010 Convention concerning Equal Remuneration for Men and Women Workers for Work of Equal Value, 1951,/22 adopted by the International Labour Conference at its thirty-fourth session; 5. "Requests" the Secretary-General to prepare, in consultation with Member States, specialized agencies and interested non-governmental organizations, within the limits of existing resources, a draft programme for the International Women's Year and to submit it to the Commission on the Status of Women at its twenty-fifth session in 1974. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3010 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3010 (XXVII) was a resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on 18 December 1972.