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regarding such accessibility and, within existing resources, to work towards
compliance with all other levels of such standards, and requests the SecretaryGeneral to report to the Committee on Information at its twenty-seventh session on
progress made in this regard;
78. Notes that the multilingual development and enrichment of the United
Nations web site has improved, although at a slower rate than expected owing to
several constraints that need to be addressed, and, in this regard, encourages the
Department of Public Information, in coordination with content-providing offices,
to improve the actions undertaken to achieve parity among the six official languages
on the United Nations web site;
79. Stresses the need to adopt a decision on the multilingual development,
maintenance and enrichment of the United Nations web site, considering, inter alia,
the possibility of organizational restructuring towards separate language units for
each of the six official languages within the Department of Public Information, in
order to achieve full parity among the official languages of the United Nations;
80. Reaffirms its request to the Secretary-General to ensure, until such a
decision has been taken and implemented, to the extent possible and while
maintaining an up-to-date and accurate web site, the equitable distribution of
financial and human resources within the Department of Public Information
allocated to the United Nations web site among all official languages on a
continuous basis, and to make every possible effort to ensure also that all materials
contained on the web site that do not change and do not need regular maintenance
are made available in all six official languages;
81. Reaffirms the need to achieve full parity among the six official languages
on the United Nations web sites, and, in this regard, takes note of the proposal of the
Secretary-General to translate all English materials and databases posted on the
United Nations web sites by the respective content-providing offices of the
Secretariat into all official languages, 16 and reiterates its request to the SecretaryGeneral to report to the Committee on Information at its twenty-seventh session on
the most practical, efficient and cost-effective means of implementing this proposal;
82. Requests the Secretary-General to include in his report to the Committee
on Information at its twenty-seventh session proposals relating to the designation of
a date by which all supporting arrangements would be in place for the
implementation of this concept, after which date parity would continue, as well as
proposals relating to the exemption from translation of specific items on the United
Nations web site;
83. Stresses the importance of access for the public to the United Nations
Treaty Collection and United Nations parliamentary documentation;
84. Encourages the Department of Public Information to implement an
e-mail service to inform subscribers of recent additions to the United Nations web
site;
85. Encourages the Secretary-General, through the Department of Public
Information, to continue to take full advantage of recent developments in
information technology in order to improve, in a cost-effective manner, the
expeditious dissemination of information on the United Nations, in accordance with
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