A/RES/73/346 Multilingualism 68. Requests the Secretary-General to continue the efforts to ensure that training opportunities in the six official languages are equally available to all staff; 69. Recalls paragraph 11 of its resolution 71/263, in which it acknowledged that the interaction of the United Nations with the local population in the field was essential and that language skills constituted an important element of the selection and training processes and therefore affirmed that a good command of the official language(s) spoken in the country of residence should be taken into account as an additional asset during those processes; 70. Also recalls its resolution 68/265 of 9 April 2014 on the mobility framework, and invites the Secretary-General to take into account applicable language skills while ensuring full compliance with Article 101 of the Charter of the United Nations; 71. Welcomes the inclusion by the Secretary-General of a managerial indicator related to multilingualism in all his compacts with senior managers, inclu ding senior managers in the field, requiring that all workplans and, where applicable, mission plans and budgets integrate multilingualism and/or language considerations and that all parliamentary documentation be submitted by authoring entities for multil ingual processing on time and within the established word limit, and requests the Secretary General to report thereon at the seventy-fifth session of the General Assembly; 72. Stresses that the employment of staff shall continue to be carried out in strict accordance with Article 101 of the Charter and in line with the relevant provisions of General Assembly resolutions; 73. Notes with concern that a number of recruitment handbooks developed by the Office of Human Resources are available only in English, and encourages the Secretary-General to ensure that upcoming reviews and updates, in particular those of the applicant’s manual, are published simultaneously in the working languages; 74. Invites the Secretary-General to ensure compliance with the requirement for United Nations staff to have the ability to use one of the working languages of the Secretariat, and encourages the Secretary-General to further the implementation of resolution 2480 B (XXIII); 75. Stresses that the promotion of staff in the Professional and higher categories shall be carried out in strict accordance with Article 101 of the Charter and in line with the provisions of resolution 2480 B (XXIII) and the relevant provisions of resolution 55/258 of 14 June 2001; 76. Welcomes the efforts of the Coordinator for Multilingualism to support the Office of Human Resources of the Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance and the Human Resources Services Division of the Departme nt of Operational Support in reviewing how language skills are assessed in staff selection, and requests the Secretary-General to report on progress made in this regard during the seventy-fifth session of the General Assembly; 77. Invites the Secretary-General to take the appropriate measures to consider the linguistic specificities mentioned in job openings during the composition of interview panels for the employment of United Nations staff, notes the difficulty of constituting panels whose members are proficient in the additional language, and in that regard invites the Secretary-General to consider the possibility of addressing this issue in the medium term; 78. Welcomes the ongoing harmonization exercise that aims to produce a United Nations Language Framework ensuring greater consistency in language learning, teaching and assessment (a) across the entire Secretariat and (b) across all 10/12 19-15935