A/RES/74/252
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 138
Pattern of conferences
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 27 December 2019
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/74/602)]
74/252.
Pattern of conferences
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous resolutions on the pattern of conferences, including
resolution 73/270 of 22 December 2018,
Recalling also its previous resolutions on multilingualism, in particular
resolution 73/346 of 16 September 2019, reaffirming the provisions relating to
conference services, and recognizing that multilingualism, as a co re value of the
Organization, contributes to the achievement of the goals of the United Nations, as
set out in Article 1 of the Charter of the United Nations,
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 2019 1 and
the relevant report of the Secretary-General, 2
Having also considered the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative
and Budgetary Questions, 3
Reaffirming the role of the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly in
administrative and budgetary matters,
Recalling its resolution 14 (I) of 13 February 1946 and the role of the Advisory
Committee as a subsidiary body of the General Assembly,
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