A/RES/54/248
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1. Notes the request of the Committee on Information that the Secretary-General continue to develop
and enhance the United Nations web sites in all the official languages of the Organization and continue to
develop proposals for consideration by the Committee on Information at its next session in May 2000;
2. Requests the Secretary-General to improve and update document access and retrieval from the
United Nations web sites and from the optical disk system, equally in the six official languages, at all duty
stations by March 2000;
3. Also requests the Secretary-General, in formalizing the structure of the Information Technology
Section, to ensure that the six official languages are treated equally;
4. Further requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the goal of the equal treatment of the six
official languages is taken into account in the course of the continuous development, maintenance and
enrichment of United Nations web sites;
5. Requests the Secretary-General to take necessary measures to improve access to the web page
of the Procurement Division;
6. Also requests the Secretary-General to report on the measures taken by the end of April 2000,
pursuant to requests made under this section, and decides to revert to this matter during its resumed fiftyfourth session;
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Recalling its decision 38/401, section E of its resolution 52/214 and its resolution 53/208 E concerning
the prohibition of smoking in small conference rooms and the discouragement of smoking in large conference
rooms,
1. Calls upon representatives of Member States to abide by its decision 38/401, section E of its
resolution 52/214 and its resolution 53/208 E;
2. Encourages all users of United Nations conference facilities, in order to avoid involuntary exposure
to passive smoking, to refrain from smoking, in particular in conference rooms.
88th plenary meeting
23 December 1999
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