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streamlining their format, structure and length, keeping in mind the views of
Member States;
24. Requests that during the deliberations on the item entitled “Questions
relating to information” in the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) during the successive regular sessions of the General Assembly,
an informal interaction between the Secretariat and members of the Fourth
Committee take place after the presentation by the Under-Secretary-General for
Communications and Public Information on the substance of that oral briefing,
within existing resources;
Multilingualism and public information
25. Welcomes the ongoing efforts of the Department of Public Information to
enhance multilingualism in its activities, and encourages the Department to continue
its endeavours in this regard;
26. Emphasizes the importance of ensuring the full, equitable treatment of all
the official languages of the United Nations in all activities of the Department of
Public Information, and stresses the importance of fully implementing its resolution
52/214 of 22 December 1997, in section C of which it requested the SecretaryGeneral to ensure that the texts of all new public documents, in all six official
languages, and information materials of the United Nations are made available daily
through the United Nations web site and are accessible to Member States without
delay;
27. Recognizes the fact that the integration of the Official Document System
with the United Nations web site, scheduled to take place during the fourth quarter
of 2004, will significantly enhance the multilingual nature of the site by providing
free, public access to all United Nations parliamentary documents in the six official
languages;
28. Reaffirms its request to the Secretary-General to ensure that the
Department of Public Information has appropriate staffing capacity in all official
languages of the United Nations to undertake all its activities;
29. Reminds the Secretary-General of the need to include in future
programme budget proposals for the Department of Public Information the
importance of using all six official languages in its activities;
Bridging the digital divide
30. Welcomes the holding of the Geneva phase of the World Summit on the
Information Society from 10 to 12 December 2003, and looks forward to the second
phase, to be held in Tunis from 16 to 18 November 2005;
31. Calls upon the Department of Public Information to contribute to raising
the awareness of the international community of the importance of the World
Summit on the Information Society and the need to join efforts to make it a success;
32. Recalls paragraph 32 of its resolution 58/101 B, welcomes the
contribution of the Department of Public Information in publicizing the efforts of
the Secretary-General to close the digital divide as a means of spurring economic
growth and as a response to the continuing gulf between developed and developing
countries, and, in this context, requests the Department to further enhance its role;
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