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2.
Calls upon the Secretary-General to continue to develop the informal
network of focal points in order to support his activities;
3.
Emphasizes the paramount importance of the equality of the six official
languages of the United Nations;
4.
Underlines the need for full implementation of the resolutions
establishing language arrangements for the official languages of the United Nations
and the working languages of the Secretariat;
Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that all language services are
5.
given equal treatment and are provided with equally favourable working conditions
and resources, with a view to achieving maximum quality of those services, with
full respect for the specificities of the six official languages, and in that regard
recalls section D, paragraph 11, of its resolution 54/248 of 23 December 1999;
Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to complete the task of
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uploading all important older United Nations documents onto the United Nations
website in all six official languages on a priority basis, so that those archives are
also available to Member States through that medium;
Reiterates that all content-providing offices in the Secretariat should
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continue their efforts to translate into all official languages all English-language
materials and databases posted on the United Nations website in the most practical,
efficient and cost-effective manner;
Requests the Secretary-General to continue to ensure, through the
8.
provision of documentation services and meeting and publishing services under
conference management, including high-quality translation and interpretation,
effective multilingual communication among representatives of Member States in
intergovernmental organs and members of expert bodies of the United Nations
equally in all the official languages of the United Nations;
Stresses the importance of providing United Nations information,
9.
technical assistance and training materials, whenever possible, in the local
languages of the beneficiary countries;
10. Acknowledges the measures undertaken by the Secretary-General, in
accordance with its resolutions, to address the issue of the replacement of retiring
staff in the language services, and requests the Secretary-General to maintain and
intensify those efforts, including through the strengthening of cooperation with
institutions that train language specialists to meet the need in the six official
languages of the United Nations;
11. Notes with satisfaction the willingness of the Secretariat to encourage
staff members, in meetings with interpretation services, to use any of the six official
languages of which they have a command;
12. Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to ensure that the rules
concerning the simultaneous distribution of documents in all six official languages
are strictly respected as regards both the distribution of printed copies and the
posting of parliamentary documentation on the Official Document System and the
United Nations website, in keeping with section III, paragraph 5, of its resolution
55/222 of 23 December 2000;
13.
Emphasizes the importance of:
(a) Making appropriate use of all the official languages of the United
Nations in all the activities of the Department of Public Information of the
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