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of Public Information, in order to achieve full parity among the official languages of
the United Nations;
65. Reaffirms its request to the Secretary-General to ensure, until such a
decision has been taken and implemented, to the extent possible and while
maintaining an up-to-date and accurate web site, the equitable distribution of
financial and human resources within the Department of Public Information
allocated to the United Nations web site among all official languages on a
continuous basis, and to make every possible effort to ensure that all materials
contained on the web site that do not change and do not need regular maintenance
are made available in all six official languages;
66. Reaffirms the need to achieve full parity among the six official languages
on the United Nations web site, and, in this regard, takes note of the proposal of the
Secretary-General, as contained in paragraph 33 of his report, 10 to translate into all
official languages all English materials and databases posted on the United Nations
web site by the respective content-providing offices of the Secretariat, and requests
the Secretary-General to report to the Committee on Information at its twenty-fifth
session on the most practical, efficient and cost-effective means of implementing
this proposal;
67. Requests the Secretary-General to include in his report to the Committee
on Information at its twenty-fifth session proposals relating to the designation of a
date by which all supporting arrangements would be in place for the implementation
of this concept and after which parity would continue and relating to the exemption
from translation of specific items on the web site;
68. Stresses the importance of access for the public to the United Nations
treaty collection and United Nations parliamentary documentation;
69. Encourages the Secretary-General, through the Department of Public
Information, to continue to take full advantage of recent developments in
information technology, including the Internet, in order to improve, in a costeffective manner, the expeditious dissemination of information on the United
Nations, in accordance with the priorities established by the General Assembly and
taking into account the linguistic diversity of the Organization;
70. Notes that the High-Level Committee on Management of the United
Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination has requested its
Technical Adviser to prepare and submit to it a preliminary study on the issue of one
central Internet portal for the United Nations system, and requests the Department
of Public Information, as the manager of the Organization’s web site, to convey the
considerations of the Committee on Information on this matter and to report thereon
to the Committee on Information at its twenty-fifth session;
71. Takes note of the reports of the Secretary-General on the re-engineering
of the Optical Disk System, now called the Official Document System of the United
Nations, 11 and on the simultaneous availability of parliamentary documentation in
electronic form in the six official languages on the United Nations web site; 12
72. Commends the Information Technology Services Division of the Office
of Central Support Services of the Secretariat on its efforts in ensuring that the
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