在实践中，第五委员会对人事和开支实施了本应由秘书长实施的宏观管理，而由秘书长实施则可以确保联合国有效运作并拥有一套可以胜任该组织面临的挑战的工作班子。
In practice, the Fifth Committee has exercised the kind of micro-management over personnel and expenditure that ought to be exercised by the Secretary General if the UN is to operate effectively and to have a staff which is up to the challenges facing the organization.