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70. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to include in the senior
managers’ compacts the new standard managerial indicator related to the timely
submission of official documentation for intergovernmental and expert bodies and to
report thereon in future progress reports on accountability;
71. Also requests the Secretary-General to include, in future budget proposals,
information related to the timely submission of doc umentation needed for meetings
of relevant intergovernmental and expert bodies;
72. Reaffirms its decision in section III, paragraph 9, of its resolution 59/265
that the issuance of documents in all six official languages on planning, budgetary
and administrative matters requiring urgent consideration by the General Assembly
shall be accorded priority;
73. Reiterates its request that the Secretary-General direct all departments of
the Secretariat to include the following elements in their reports:
(a)
A summary of the report;
(b)
Consolidated conclusions, recommendations and other proposed actions;
(c)
Relevant background information;
and its request that all documents submitted to legislative organs, including the
Committee on Conferences, by the Secretariat and intergovernmental and expert
bodies for consideration and action have conclusions and recommendations in bold
print;
74. Notes with concern that only 76 per cent of the author departments reached
the compliance rate of 90 per cent in the timely submission of their reports to the
Department for General Assembly and Conference Management, reiterates its request
to the Secretary-General to enforce the slotting system more rigorously through a
dedicated focus, such as the interdepartmental task force on documentation, and to
report thereon to the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session, urges author
departments to fully adhere to deadlines for document submission, and reque sts the
Secretary-General to continue to report on concrete measures taken;
75. Notes with appreciation the work of the interdepartmental task force on
documentation, chaired by the Department for General Assembly and Conference
Management, to facilitate the submission of documents by author departments of the
Secretariat;
76. Reiterates its request in paragraph 77 of its resolution 73/270 that the
Secretary-General provide information on the waiver process for documents that are
submitted over the word limit;
77. Notes that the Official Document System is the official digital repository
of the United Nations, welcomes its modernization, including the introduction of a
portable Official Document System, and its accessibility in all six official languages
of the United Nations, and encourages the Secretary-General to continue his efforts
in this regard;
78. Requests the Secretary-General to continue his efforts to upload all
important older United Nations documents on to the United Nations website in all six
official languages on a priority basis so that those archives will also be available to
Member States and the general public;
79. Also requests the Secretary-General to take all measures necessary to
ensure that the digitization of key documents in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library and
in the main duty stations is completed in a timely manner, as appropriate;
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