UN General Assembly
1962

125. The Charter defines the functions of the Secretary-General in precise terms. However great the esteem in which we may hold a man and whatever merit we may find in him, we must refer to the stipulations of the Charter. While, admittedly, it is desirable that the Secretary-General should be given wider powers for the conduct of certain operations, he cannot personify the whole Organization and substitute himself for it, as he has been seen to do in certain cases. It is abnormal, too, that action should sometimes be taken without prior consultation with the General Assembly. 126. The recruitment of staff must be in accordance with the provisions of Article 101 of the Charter and carried out "on as wide a geographical basis as possible". Henceforward, the smaller countries will have competent men, and it is time that these men should be given opportunities at all levels of the Secretariat.