4. Requests the Secretary-General to provide updated information to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session, under the agenda item entitled "Human resources management," on current practices related to the special ceiling on the United Nations annual earnings for United Nations retirees employed on a short-term basis in language services, as established by the Assembly in its decision 51/408 of 4 November 1996, with a view to reviewing this issue;
4. 请秘书长在题为"人力资源管理"的议程项目下，就大会1996年11月4日第51/408号决定所定语文事务处短期雇用联合国退休人员的联合国年收入上限方面的目前做法，向大会第五十七届会议提供最新资料，以期审议这个问题；