A/RES/53/208 Page 8 the fact that the numbers and grade levels of staff should be commensurate with the needs of the Organization as well as the fact that requirements differ between languages as well as between duty stations; 31. Recommends that due account should be taken of returns in terms of, inter alia, possible savings and efficiency gains in planning new technology; 32. Also recommends that computer-assisted translation systems should be compatible with the existing computer platforms used in the United Nations, that they should be upgradable to future technological developments such as speech recognition and remote access, and that the experience of all duty stations should be taken into account in their development; 33. Takes note of paragraph 62 of the report of the Committee on Conferences;1 34. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session on the impact of economy measures on the delivery of mandated conference services; 35. Also requests the Secretary-General, when preparing budget proposals for conference services, to ensure that all necessary resources are proposed for such services, giving priority to redressing the inadequacies in the provision of conference services in the most efficient manner for continuous improvements in the quality and delivery of those services; 36. Decides to defer until its resumed fifty-third session consideration of the report of the Joint Inspection Unit,7 the note by the Secretary-General transmitting his comments thereon,8 the report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination9 and the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions10 on United Nations publications. 93rd plenary meeting 18 December 1998 C The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 50/206 D of 23 December 1995, 51/211 C of 18 December 1996 and 51/211 F of 15 September 1997 and section C of its resolution 52/214 of 22 December 1997, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General11 and the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions5 on access to the optical disk system, 7 8 See A/51/946. A/52/685. 9 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-third Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/53/16), part one, chap. IV. 10 A/53/669. 11 A/52/803. /...