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222 General Assembly-Thirty-sixth Session 4. The contributions of Zimbabwe and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines for 1980 and 1981 shall be applied to the same basis of assessment as for other Member States, except that in the case of appropriations or apportionments approved under General Assembly resolutions 34/7 C of 3 December 1979 and 35/45 A of 1 December 1980 for the financing of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, and resolution 35/115 A of IO December 1980 for the financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Leb­ anon, the contributions of those States, as determined by the group of contributors to which they may be assigned by the Assembly, shall be calculated in proportion to the cal­ endar year; 5. The advances of Zimbabwe and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the Working Capital Fund, under regu­ lation 5.8 of the Financial Regulations of the United Nations, shall be calculated by the application of the rates of assessment of 0.02 and 0.01 per cent, respectively, to the authorized level of the Fund, such advances to be added to the Fund pending the incorporation of the new Members' rates of assessment in a 100 per cent scale. 105th plenary meeting 18 December 1981 36/232. Respect for the privileges and immunities of officials of the United Nations and the special­ ized agencies and related organizations The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 35/212 of 17 December 1980, Recalling the Convention on the Privileges and Immu- nities of the United Nations of 13 February 1946, 55 the Con­ vention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies of 21 November 194 7, 56 the Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Atomic En­ ergy Agency of 1 July 1959 and the agreements between the United Nations and the specialized agencies and related organizations and the respective host Governments, Noting the report of the Secretary-General, 57 Noting also the position consistently upheld by the United Nations in the event of the arrest and detention of United Nations staff members by governmental authorities, Reaffirming the responsibility and authority of the Sec- retary-General as the Chief Administrative Officer of the United Nations under the Charter, Mindful of Article 100 of the Charter of the United Nations, under which each Member State has undertaken to respect the exclusively international character of the re­ sponsibilities of the Secretary-General and the staff and not to seek to influence them in the discharge of their responsibilities, Mindful also of the fact that under the same Article of the Charter, the Secretary-General and the staff shall not, in the performance of their duties, seek or receive instruc­ tions from any Government or from any other authority external to the Organization, Recalling that the International Court of Justice has held that international organizations have the power and respon­ sibility to protect members of their staff, Recalling also the obligations of the staff in the conduct of their duties to observe the laws and regulations of Member States, " Resolution 22 A (I). '° Resolution 179 (II). 51 AIC. 5136131. Reaffirming the relevant staff regulations, Aware of the absolute necessity that staff members be enabled to discharge their tasks as assigned to them by the Secretary-General without interference on the part of any Member State or any other authority external to the Organization, Realizing that staff members of the specialized agencies and related organizations enjoy similar privileges _and i¬­ munities in accordance with the instruments mentioned m the second preambular paragraph above, 1. Appeals to any Member State which has placed under arrest or detention a staff member of the United Nations or of a specialized agency or related organization to enable the Secretary-General or the executive head of the organization concerned, in accordance with the rights inherent under the relevant multilateral conventions and bilateral agreements, to visit and converse with the staff member, to apprise himself of the grounds for the arrest or detention, including the main facts and formal charges, to enable him also to assist the staff member in arranging for legal counsel and to recognize the functional immunity of a staff member asserted by the Secretary-General or by the appropriate ex­ ecutive head, in conformity with international law and in accordance with the provisions of the applicable bilateral agreements between the host country and the United Nations or the specialized agency or related organization concerned; 2. Requests the Secretary-General and the executive heads of the organizations concerned to ensure that the staff observe the obligations incumbent upon them, in accordance with the relevant staff rules and regulations, the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Spe­ cialized Agencies and the Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Atomic Energy Agency; 3. Requests the Secretary-General to bring the present resolution to the attention of all specialized agencies and related organizations of the United Nations system, with the request that they furnish information to him on cases where there are clear indications that the principles expressed in paragraph I above or the status of the staff members of such an organization have not been fully respected; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Gen­ eral Assembly at each regular session, on behalf of the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination, an updated and comprehensive annual report relating to cases in which the Secretary-General or the competent executive head has not been able to exercise fully his responsibility in respect of the protection of staff members of the United Nations or of a specialized agency or related organization in accordance with the multilateral conventions and applicable bilateral agreements with the host country. 105th plenary meeting 18 December 1981 36/233. Report of the International Civil Service Commission The General Assembly, Having considered the seventh annual report of the In­ ternational Civil Service Commission,58 Recalling that it established the Commission for the reg­ ulation and co-ordination of the conditions of service of the United Nations common system as set forth in article I of the statute of the Commission, "Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-sixth Ses­ sion, Supplement No. 30 (A/36/30 and Corr.I).

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