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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
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See A/59/159, paras. 36–46.
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