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Appreciating also the efforts of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Informatics of the
Economic and Social Council in raising the level of awareness of the year 2000 problem,
1.
Requests all Member States to attach a high priority to raising the level of awareness, both
by ensuring that the private sector is fully engaged in addressing the year 2000 problem and by tackling
the problem in those systems within their own control, and to consider, inter alia, the appointment of a
nationwide coordinator for this purpose;
2.
Appeals to all Member States to forge global cooperation to ensure a timely and effective
response to the year 2000 challenge;
3.
Calls upon Governments, public and private sector organizations and civil society to share
locally, regionally and globally their experiences in addressing the year 2000 problem;
4.
Requests the Secretary-General to take steps to ensure that all parts of the United Nations
system take measures to ensure that their computers and equipment with embedded microprocessors are
year 2000 compliant well before the target date by drawing up a plan of action for the United Nations
system;
5.
Calls upon the Economic and Social Council to prepare at its substantive session of 1998
guidelines on which Member States will be able to draw in addressing the diverse aspects of the year 2000
problem;
6.
Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the United Nations system closely monitors
actual and potential sources of funding to support the efforts of the developing countries and countries
with economies in transition to address the year 2000 problem, and to facilitate the dissemination of
relevant information on those funding possibilities to the Member States;
7.
Also requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-third
session on the steps taken within the United Nations system and with Member States to resolve this
problem;
8.
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third session an item entitled
“Global implications of the year 2000 date conversion problem of computers” and to complete its action
under that agenda item before the deadline of 31 December 1999.
88th plenary meeting
26 June 1998