United Nations
A/RES/68/251
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 January 2014
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 137
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 27 December 2013
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/68/673)]
68/251. Pattern of conferences
The General Assembly,
Recalling its relevant resolutions, including resolutions 40/243 of
18 December 1985, 41/213 of 19 December 1986, 43/222 A to E of 21 December
1988, 51/211 A to E of 18 December 1996, 52/214 of 22 December 1997, 53/208 A
to E of 18 December 1998, 54/248 of 23 December 1999, 55/222 of 23 December
2000, 56/242 of 24 December 2001, 56/254 D of 27 March 2002, 56/262 of
15 February 2002, 56/287 of 27 June 2002, 57/283 A of 20 December 2002, 57/283 B
of 15 April 2003, 58/250 of 23 December 2003, 59/265 of 23 December 2004,
60/236 A of 23 December 2005, 60/236 B of 8 May 2006, 61/236 of 22 December
2006, 62/225 of 22 December 2007, 63/248 of 24 December 2008, 63/284 of
30 June 2009, 64/230 of 22 December 2009, 65/245 of 24 December 2010, 66/233
of 24 December 2011 and 67/237 of 24 December 2012,
Reaffirming its resolution 42/207 C of 11 December 1987, in which it
requested the Secretary-General to ensure the equal treatment of the official
languages of the United Nations,
Having considered the report of the Committee on Conferences for 2013 1 and
the relevant reports of the Secretary-General, 2
Having also considered the report of the
Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 3
Advisory Committee
on
Reaffirming the provisions relating to conference services in its resolutions on
multilingualism, in particular resolution 67/292 of 24 July 2013,
Reaffirming also the role of the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly in
administrative and budgetary matters,
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1
Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 32 (A/68/32).
A/68/122 and A/68/123.
3
A/68/567.
2
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