A/RES/59/265 expand its application across duty stations, or to integrate the system into other systems used in such offices; 16. Also requests the Secretary-General to continue his efforts to implement further the electronic documentation management concept (e-Docs), including the actual electronic transmission of documents through the documentation chain; 17. Further requests the Secretary-General to enhance the use of printing on demand for parliamentary documentation as a means of improving services provided to Member States, in full compliance with current legislative mandates, on the basis of experience gained and lessons learned, taking fully into account the special needs of developing countries and the views expressed by Member States, to consider the use of printing on demand for publications, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session through the Committee on Conferences; III Documentation and publication-related matters 1. Emphasizes the paramount importance of the equality of the six official languages of the United Nations; 2. Notes with concern the delay in the issuance of verbatim and summary records, and in this regard requests the Secretary-General to take appropriate measures to ameliorate the situation, with a view to issuing them in a timely manner; Notes with deep concern that the six-week rule for the issuance of 3. documents is not fully complied with owing to, inter alia, the continued late submission of documents by author departments, and requests the Secretary-General to take further urgent measures to ensure strict compliance with the six-week rule for the timely issuance of documentation in view of the impact of their late issuance on the functioning of intergovernmental and expert bodies, which was acutely felt during the main part of the fifty-ninth session; Notes that the rate of compliance with the page limits remains only 4. partial 10 and that reports not originating in the Secretariat comprise the bulk of the documents issued, and requests the Secretary-General to encourage compliance with drafting guidelines as set out in paragraph 15 of its resolution 53/208 B, to the extent possible, for such documents and to report on the matter to the General Assembly through the Committee on Conferences; Recalls section III, paragraphs 25 to 28, of its resolution 57/283 B and 5. section III, paragraph 10, of its resolution 58/250, and urges the Secretary-General to continue the consultations referred to in this context with a view to considering the possible broadening of the electronic distribution of documentation while maintaining the distribution of printed copies, as required, and to report on the matter to the General Assembly through the Committee on Conferences; Notes with concern the violations of the rule that parliamentary 6. documents must be distributed simultaneously in all official languages; 7. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the rules concerning the simultaneous distribution of documents in all official languages are followed with _______________ 10 6 See A/59/159, paras. 36–46.

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