CM/Res. 683 (XXXII)
RESOLUTION ON RECRUITMENT OF PERSONNEL AND NATIONAL QUOTAS
The Council of Minister of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its Thirty- Second Ordinary Session in Nairobi, Republic of Kenya, from 23 February to 4 March, 1 979,
Having Considered the Activities Report of the Administrative Secretary-General of the OAU covering the period July 1978 to February 1979 contained in Document CM/928
(XXXII) Part II as well as the report of the committee of 14 on the Structural Reforms of the OAU;
Recognizing the need for the Administrative Secretary-General to recruit competent staff for the administration and effective running of the OAU Secretariat;
Bearing in mind also the established principle of national quotas as well as that of equitable geographical distribution;
DECIDES:
That for the time being Staff Members of the General Services Category who are recruited should not be subject to the quota system;
That for the time being the recruitment of Technical Staff (Interpreters, Translators, Revisors, Precis writers) should not be counted against the quota of Member States;
That the quota should only apply to staff Members in the professional Category.
REAFFIRMS that in all matters of recruitment equitable geographical distribution should as much as possible be taken into account.