A/RES/56/277 United Nations Distr.: General 23 April 2002 General Assembly Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 123 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/56/736/Add.1)] 56/277. Documents and publications of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia The General Assembly, Having considered the note by the Secretariat on the languages used for the preparation of documents and publications of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia,1 1. Recalls its resolution 56/253 of 24 December 2001; 2. Urges the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia to comply with all relevant provisions of Commission resolution 44 (IV) of 28 April 1977,2 whereby it decided, inter alia, that all documents to be submitted to it should, as far as possible, be drafted in Arabic; 3. Takes note of the note by the Secretariat,1 and looks forward to the report of the Secretary-General on the progress achieved in the production of documents and publications in Arabic requested in paragraph 124 of its resolution 56/253 for consideration at the fifty-seventh session. 97th plenary meeting 27 March 2002 _______________ 1 A/C.5/56/19. See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 10 (E/5969), chap. III. 2 01 49499