A/RES/69/324 Multilingualism 49. 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; 50. 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); 51. Also invites the Secretary-General to take the appropriate measures to consider the linguistic specificities mentioned in vacancy announcements during the composition of interview panels for the employment of United Nations staff; 52. 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; VI Language services staff 53. Recalls its resolution 66/233 of 24 December 2011, in particular paragraph 7 of section III thereof, and reiterates its request that the SecretaryGeneral ensure that all language services are given equal treatment and are provided with equally favourable working conditions and resources, with a view to achieving maximum quality of services, with full respect for the specificities of the six official languages, and in that regard recalls section D, paragraph 11, of its resolution 54/248 of 23 December 1999; 54. Acknowledges the measures taken by the Secretary-General, in accordance with its resolutions, to address the issue of the replacement of retiring staff in the language services, and requests the Secretary-General to maintain and intensify those efforts, including through the strengthening of cooperation with institutions that train language specialists to meet the needs in the six official languages of the United Nations; VII Field offices, peacekeeping operations and peacebuilding 55. Notes the submission to the Secretary-General of the report of the Highlevel Independent Panel on Peace Operations10 and the recent issuance of the report of the Advisory Group of Experts on the Review of the Peacebuilding Architecture;11 56. Recognizes the contribution of the Language and Communications Programme to promoting multilingualism within the United Nations, encourages in this regard the Department of Field Support and the Office of Human Resources Management of the Secretariat to continue to cooperate closely, from within existing resources, to support the language learning needs of staff in the field, and requests the Secretary-General to provide further information in this regard at the seventyfirst session of the General Assembly; _______________ 10 11 8/9 See A/70/95-S/2015/446. See A/69/968-S/2015/490.