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93. Further requests the Secretary-General to continue to maintain and update
the global terminology portal in order to ensure its availability to United Nations staff,
Member States and the general public, with a view to achieving harmonization of the
terminology used at all United Nations duty stations;
94. Requests the Secretary-General, as the Chair of the United Nations System
Chief Executives Board for Coordination, to continue to invite the heads of
participating funds, programmes and specialized agencies of th e United Nations
system to consider using official United Nations terminology and to report thereon to
the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session;
95. Notes that the pool of language professionals at duty stations is uneven in
terms of language combinations, and requests the Secretary-General to continue his
efforts to develop recruitment, subcontracting and outreach policies that take full
account of those imbalances and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its
seventy-fifth session;
96. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that all language services are
given equal treatment and are provided with equally favourable working conditions
and resources, with a view to achieving the maximum quality of services, with full
respect for the specificities of the six official languages and taking into account their
respective workloads;
97. Also requests the Secretary-General to take measures to ensure equal
treatment of all six official languages and equal quality of service for Member States,
while fully respecting the specificities of each official language and different levels
of benefit from information technology advances for different languages, including
by addressing workload inequities arising from staffing structures and specificities of
language, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session;
98. Reiterates the need for the Secretary-General to ensure the compatibility
of technologies used in all duty stations and to ensure that they are user -friendly in
all official languages;
99. Welcomes the development of the computer-assisted translation and
machine translation system (eLUNa), and requests the Secretary-General to report on
updates, including cost-benefit analysis and quality preservation and control, to this
system to the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session;
100. Recalls section VII of its resolution 69/274 A of 2 April 2015, and requests
the Secretary-General to ensure that the implementation of flexible workplace
strategies and other potential changes in logistical arrangements take into account the
needs of language staff in order to continue to ensure that the services provided to
Member States meet the highest standard of quality;
101. Reaffirms paragraph 102 of its resolution 73/270, and reiterates 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 fo r the specificities of each of
the six official languages and taking into account their respective workloads;
102. Recalls section IV of its resolution 69/274 A, and requests the SecretaryGeneral to keep the working conditions of interpreters under review;
103. Requests the Secretary-General to fill vacancies in the language services,
in particular in the translation services and interpretation services, in a timely manner
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