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7.
Reaffirms that the Fifth Committee is the appropriate Main Committee of
the General Assembly entrusted with responsibilities for administrative and budgetary
matters;
Also reaffirms its decision in section III, paragraph 9, of its resolution
8.
59/265 that the issuance of documents in all six official languages on planning,
budgetary and administrative matters requiring urgent consideration by the General
Assembly shall be accorded priority;
Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to direct all departments of
9.
the Secretariat to include the following elements in their reports:
(a)
Summary of the report;
(b)
Consolidated conclusions, recommendations and other proposed actions;
(c)
Relevant background information;
10. Reiterates its request that all documents submitted to legislative organs by
the Secretariat and intergovernmental and expert bodies for consideration and action
have conclusions and recommendations in bold print;
11. Recognizes the work done by the task force chaired by the Department for
General Assembly and Conference Management in positively addressing the problem of
issuance of documents for the Fifth Committee;
12. Welcomes the continued efforts of the task force to shepherd the submission
of documents by the author departments of the Secretariat;
13. Expresses deep concern at the unprecedented high level of late submission of
documentation, which, in turn, has a negative impact on the functioning of
intergovernmental bodies, and urges author departments to fully adhere to deadlines in
meeting the goal of 90 per cent submission compliance;
14. Decides to review, at its sixty-sixth session, the work of the task force and to
consider, where necessary, additional measures to ensure compliance with submission
deadlines by author departments if the goal of 90 per cent compliance is not met;
15. Acknowledges that a multipronged approach is required to find a solution to
the perennial difficulties of the late issuance of documents for the Fifth Committee;
16. Encourages the Chairs of the Fifth Committee and the Advisory Committee
on Administrative and Budgetary Questions to promote cooperation between the two
bodies in the sphere of documentation;
V
Translation and interpretation-related matters
1.
Requests the Secretary-General to redouble his efforts to ensure the highest
quality of interpretation and translation services in all six official languages;
2.
Also requests the Secretary-General to continue to seek evaluation by
Member States of the quality of the conference services provided to them, including
through the language-specific informational meetings held twice a year, and to ensure
that such measures provide equal opportunities to Member States to present their
evaluations in the six official languages of the United Nations and that they are in full
compliance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly;
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