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3.
Underlines that the primary responsibility lies with States at the national
level, including through their constitutional provisions and other enabling legislation,
consistent with their international obligations, to ensure that professional public services
uphold the highest standards of efficiency, competence and integrity, and are predicated on
good governance principles, including impartiality, rule of law, transparency, accountability
and combating corruption, and stresses the importance of human rights training and
education in this regard;
4.
Invites the Secretary-General to ensure the upholding of the integrity of the
United Nations system in its service of humanity, and improved coordination between
United Nations agencies, programmes and funds, with a view to ensuring that the United
Nations system continues to improve the quality of its work at all levels, including in
support of objectives and priorities at the national level;
5.
Requests the High Commissioner to organize, at the thirtieth session of the
Human Rights Council, a panel discussion on a human rights-based approach to good
governance in the public service, and to liaise with States, relevant United Nations bodies,
agencies and programmes, treaty bodies, special procedures and regional human rights
mechanisms, as well as with civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and
national human rights institutions, with a view to ensuring their contribution to the panel
discussion;
6.
Also requests the High Commissioner to prepare a report on the panel
discussion in the form of a summary report, and to present it to the Human Rights Council
at its thirty-first session.
54th meeting
27 March 2014
[Adopted without a vote.]
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