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required technological infrastructure is in place to accommodate the imminent
linkage of the Official Document System to the United Nations web site, and
commends also the Department of Public Information for addressing issues of
content management relating to the System;
73. Notes that the integration of the Official Document System with the
United Nations web site will significantly enhance the multilingual nature of the
United Nations web site and will lead to efficiencies throughout all Secretariat
departments through the elimination of duplicate formatting and posting of
documents;
74. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Committee on
Information at its twenty-fifth session on the impact on the functioning of the
Official Document System following implementation of the full multilingual
support function and on the feasibility of providing free, public access to the System
through a linkage with the United Nations web site, including options with a view to
revising the current subscription policy established in General Assembly resolution
51/211 F of 15 September 1997, and expresses its intention to take a decision on the
subscription policy during the main part of its fifty-eighth session;
75. Notes with interest the electronic mail-based United Nations News
Service distributed worldwide by e-mail by the Department of Public Information,
appreciates the plan of the Department to provide this service in all official
languages in 2002, and emphasizes that extra care needs to be taken to ensure that
news-breaking stories and news alerts are accurate, impartial and free of any bias;
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Final remarks
76. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Committee on
Information at its twenty-fifth session and to the General Assembly at its fiftyeighth session on the activities of the Department of Public Information and on the
implementation of the recommendations contained in the present resolution;
77. Requests the Committee on Information to report to the General
Assembly at its fifty-eighth session;
78. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session
the item entitled “Questions relating to information”.
73rd plenary meeting
11 December 2002
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