A/RES/54/248
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11. Notes with concern the decline in the number of documents submitted to conference services in
time for processing before the beginning of a session, and requests the Secretary-General to take urgent
remedial measures to rectify this alarming situation, including the introduction of a system of responsibility and
accountability;
12. Requests the Secretary-General to publish, prior to the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly,
updated versions of the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and the Regulations and Rules
Governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation
and the Methods of Evaluation in the six official languages of the Organization;
13. A lso requests the Secretary-General to publish the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United
Nations in the six official languages of the Organization when their consolidation is completed;
14. Urges intergovernmental bodies, when feasible, to become more actively involved in rationalizing
their meeting schedules in order to ensure the timely distribution of all related documentation, and requests
the Secretary-General to submit proposals based on the reviews, through the Committee on Conferences, to
the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session;
D
TRANSLATION- AND INTERPRETATION-RELATED MATTERS
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the provision of interpretation services to
other locations from permanent interpretation structures in New York, Geneva, Vienna and Nairobi10 and the
report of the Secretary-General entitled “Career development in language services: the post of reviser”, 11
1. Requests the Secretary-General to continue the efforts to utilize new technologies, such as
computer-assisted translation, remote translation, terminology databases and speech recognition, in the six
official languages so as to enhance further the productivity of conference services, and to keep the General
Assembly informed of the introduction and use of any other new technology;
2. Also requests the Secretary-General to continue the efforts to ensure that training opportunities in
the six official languages are equally available to all language staff, including those at duty stations away from
Headquarters;
3. Decides that, in the absence of a General Assembly decision to the contrary, the use of remote
interpretation shall not constitute an alternative to the current institutionalized system of interpretation;
4. Also decides that the use of remote interpretation should not affect the quality of interpretation or
in itself lead to any further reduction in language posts, nor will it affect the equal treatment of the six official
languages;
10
A/54/176.
11
A/53/919/Add.1.
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