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A/RES/71/262
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Matters related to language services
90. Requests the Secretary-General to redouble his efforts to ensure the
highest quality of interpretation and translation services in all six official languages;
91. Underlines that the translation of official documents of the Organization
must be provided in all required languages and in due time, in full comp liance with
the rules of procedure of the respective legislative bodies;
92. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to 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;
93. 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 these imbalances and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its
seventy-second session;
94. 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;
95. 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-second session;
96. 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;
97. Notes the development of an experimental statistical machine translation
system (Tapta4UN) to accelerate translation services for some categories of
documents, and requests the Secretary-General to report on updates, including costbenefit analysis and quality preservation and control, about this system to the
General Assembly at its seventy-second session, through the Committee on
Conferences;
98. 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 takes 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;
99. 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;
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