A/RES/53/208 Page 9 Stressing the importance of equal access to, and benefit from, the optical disk system and other new technologies in all six official languages for all Member States and the need to overcome the difficulties faced by some Member States, in particular by developing countries, in acquiring the technology to access the optical disk system, as well as other available technologies, Appreciating the actions taken by the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Informatics of the Economic and Social Council to achieve universal connectivity between United Nations databases and those of Member States, including through their permanent missions, and the training programmes initiated to that end, Appreciating also the efforts of the Secretary-General to incorporate new information technologies in the work of the Organization, 1. Welcomes the efforts of the Secretariat to improve access to the optical disk system, particularly the establishment of additional centres for the optical disk system; 2. Recognizes the efforts to provide wider access to the optical disk system, while continuing to ensure the availability of hard copies of documents for Member States, in particular for developing countries; 3. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that all resolutions and decisions, and any annexes thereto, adopted by the principal organs of the United Nations are posted to the optical disk system expeditiously; 4. Notes with appreciation that the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat launched United Nations Web sites in Russian, Arabic and Chinese this year; 5. Stresses the need for the continuous development, maintenance and enrichment of United Nations Web sites, with a view to achieving equal treatment of the six official languages on those Web sites; 6. Requests the Secretary-General to submit proposals in this connection to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session through the Committee on Conferences and the Committee on Information; 7. Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to ensure that the texts of all new public documents, in all six official languages, and information materials of the United Nations are made available through the United Nations Web site daily and are accessible to Member States without delay; 8. Notes that, in addition to the free-of-charge connection, via the Internet, of all permanent and observer missions, requests have been received by the Organization for access to the optical disk system from a number of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations; 9. Reaffirms that, as provided for in its resolution 51/211 F, access to the optical disk system will continue to be provided free of charge to permanent and observer missions and other government offices of Member States, with a maximum of ten access passwords for each Member State, and that the optical disk system will continue to be made available to all staff of the Secretariat; 10. Endorses the recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions in paragraph 13 of its report5 that a way be found, while maintaining the quality of service and priority given by the General Assembly to the users mentioned in paragraph 1 of its resolution 51/211 F, to apply income generated through optical disk system subscriptions directly to help to meet the cost of maintaining and/or expanding the optical disk system, and to establish a mechanism to monitor satisfaction with the optical disk system. /...