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Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service expected standards to help staff understand their role as international civil servants rather than a set of binding rules." The 2013 edition of the Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service were drafted under the guidance of Kingston Papie Rhodes, chairman of the ICSC, and approved by the UN General Assembly in its resolution 67/257. Rhodes wrote in his foreword to the 2013 standards: The UN Staff Regulations of 1 January 2014, in Article 100, state: Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service The document Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service is a text document of