36. His delegation welcomed the intention of OPS to submit a career development plan to the next session of the General Assembly. Owing to the geographical dispersion of the staff, the range of occupations involved and the geopolitical composition of the Secretariat, such an undertaking would be difficult. Nevertheless a career development plan was becoming increasingly necessary to ensure effective human resources management. 37. Algeria shared the concern of Japan and Austria over continuity in the implementation of personnel reforms. There had been three Assistant Secretaries­ General for Personnel Services over the past four years. An organization as complex as the United Nations required a certain continuity to ensure the implementation of effective policies. It was also essential to reaffirm the rather blurred authority of the Office of Personnel Services. The Secretary-General should provide the necessary support to OPS, in accordance with the wishes of the General Assembly, to ensure that the proposed reforms would not remain a dead letter. 38. The responsibility of the Office of Personnel Services for recruitment was spelled out in General Assembly resolution 35/210. The resolution seemed, in practice, to have been interpreted as giving substantive departments the ; ... A/C.S/38/SR.SO English Page 11 (Mr. Bouyoucef, Algeria) prerogative to recruit their preferred candidates despite any reservations on the part of OPS, whose mandate was to ensure equitable geographical distribution. His delegation wished the Committee to be given an annual breakdown by department of the candidates recruited for geographical posts to enable it to analyse the geographical distribution in each department and the efforts made to improve it. 39. The Secretary-General's report on the composition of the Secretariat (A/38/347) indicated that 96 countries were not represented at the D-2 level or above, while 61 countries shared the 142 geographical posts at those levels. It 
**Analysis**
This text appears to be discussing the internal management and organizational structure of the United Nations, specifically the Office of Personnel Services and its role in human resources management, recruitment, and geographical distribution of staff. The text does not mention any specific economic, environmental, or technological topics that would fall under the categories of economic development, natural resources and environment, industry, transport and communication, international trade, health, agriculture, forestry and fishing, science and technology.

**Category**
Employment, Humanitarian aid and relief