basis;technical co-operation project personnel; staffofthesecretariats ofthe UnitedNations organs withspecial statusinmatters ofappointment; statfwhohave permanent resident statusin,butnotthenationality of,thecountry oftheirduty station; andstaffintheGeneral Service andrelated categories. 5.Therearealsoapproximately 40postsintheDepartment ofPublicInformation (DPI)that,although currently subject togeographical distribution, could, because ofthelinguistic abilities required, beconsidered language posts. Staffinthese posts(Writer/Producers (RadioandTelevision) andEditor/writers (PUblications)) arerecruited toworkinspecific languages andcanbeselected onlyfromamongthe nationals ofcountries wherethelanguages reauired arespoken. Theirsituation is verysimilar tothatofstaffinpostswithspecial language requirements -suchas editors, interpreters andtranSlators -thatareexcluded fromgeographical distribution. Thepossibility ofconsidering theseDPIpostslanguage postsinthe futureisunderstudy. 6.Therepresentation ofMemberStates inpostsSUbject togeographical distribution intheSecretariat isassessed bycomparison withthedesirable ranges calculated foreachState, whichareshowninstatistical table9contained inthe annextothisreport. According tothiscriterion, MemberStatesfallintothe following categories: unrepresented (whennoneoftheirnationals servesinapost subject togeographical distribution); underrepresented (whenthenumberoftheir nationals inthesepostsislowerthanthelowerlimitoftheirdesirable ranges); within range(whenthenumberoftheirnationals iswithinthelimitsoftheir ranges); andover-represented (whenthenumberoftheirnationals exceeds theupper limitoftheirranges). 7.TableAshowsthenumberofstafffromeachregioninpostsSUbject to geographical distribution andthenumberofMemberStatesineachregionthatare unrepresented, underrepresented, withintheirdesirable range,orover-represented asat30June1985,ascompared withthesituation inprevious years. 8.Inresolutions 33/143 and35/210, theGeneral Assembly calledforanincrease inthenumberofwomeninpostssubject togeographical distribution to25percent ofthetotalinaccordance withtheprinciple ofeauitable geographical distribution. 9.Inresolution 37/235, theGeneral Assembly requested theSecretary-General to intensify hisefforts toimplement fullytherelevant sections ofresolutions 33/143 and35/210, keeping inmindthatthe25percenttargetsetshouldnotbe viewedasalimitonthenumberofwomenemployed andpayingparticular attention tothoseareasoftheUnitedNations wherecompliance withtheresolution has laggedbehind. 10.Inresolution 38/231, theGeneral Assembly requested theSecretary-General to makespecial efforts tomeetthegoalsandobjectives established Withrespect to therecruitment, careerdevelopment andpromotion ofwomen. /...A/40/652 English Page4 TableA NumberofstaffandMemberStates, byregion anddegreeof representation intheSecretariat, asat30June1981, 1982,1983,1984and1985 under- Over- Member Unrepre- repre- Within repre- Region YearStaff States sented sented range sented Africa 1981 400 51 6 7 28 10 1982 439 51 5 6 31 9 1983 481 51 4 5 30 12 1984 495 51 4 5 30 12 1985 489 51 4 3 31 13 Asiaand the 1981 456 25 6 1 11 7 Pacific 1982 494 26 6 2 11 7 1983 506 26 5 3 10 8 1984 503 26 5 3 10 8 1985 508 27 5 4 11 7 Europe (Eastern) 1981 296 11 1 5 5 0 1982 312 11 1 4 6 0 1983 319 11 1 4 5 1