A/RES/67/237 Pattern of conferences older United Nations documents, including parliamentary documents, and on options for expediting this process within existing resources; 25. Notes the pilot project undertaken by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space at the United Nations Office at Vienna to make a transition to digital recordings of meetings in the six official languages of the Organization as a cost-saving measure; 26. Emphasizes that the further expansion of this measure would require consideration, including of its legal, financial and human resources implications, by the General Assembly and full compliance with the relevant resolutions of the Assembly, and requests the Secretary-General to report thereon and on the evaluation of the pilot project mentioned above to the Assembly at its sixty-eighth session; 27. Recalls paragraph 5 of its resolution 49/221 B of 23 December 1994, and stresses that the timely issuance of verbatim records constitutes an important part of the services provided to Member States; V Matters related to translation and interpretation 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. Reiterates its request that the Secretary-General ensure that the terminology used in the translation and interpretation services reflects the latest linguistic norms and terminology of the official languages in order to ensure the highest quality; Reaffirms section V, paragraph 4, of its resolution 66/233, and reiterates 3. its request that the Secretary-General, when recruiting temporary assistance in the language services, including through the use of international or local contracts, as appropriate, ensure that all language services are given equal treatment and are provided with equally favourable working conditions and resources, with a view to achieving maximum quality of their services, with full respect for the specificities of each of the six official languages and taking into account their respective workloads; Reiterates its request that the Secretary-General consider further 4. measures aimed at decreasing the vacancy rates at the United Nations Office at Nairobi, and requests the Secretary-General to report thereon to the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session; Requests the Secretary-General to hold competitive examinations for the 5. recruitment of language staff sufficiently in advance in order to fill current and future vacancies in the language services in a timely manner and to inform the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session of efforts in this regard; Also requests the Secretary-General to continue to improve the quality of 6. translation of documents into the six official languages, giving particular significance to the accuracy of translation; Reiterates paragraph 8 of the annex to resolution 2 (I) of 1 February 7. 1946 on the rules of procedure concerning languages, whereby all resolutions and other important documents shall be made available in the official languages and, 10/12

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