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14. Also reiterates its request to the Secretary-General, in order to improve
further the quality of translation of documents issued in the six official languages, to
ensure continuous dialogue between translation staff and interpretation staff, among
United Nations headquarters at New York, Geneva, Vienna and Nairobi, and
between translation divisions and Member States with regard to the standardization
of the terminology used;
15. Further reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to hold
informational meetings in order to brief Member States periodically on the
terminology used;
16. Requests the Secretary-General to conduct consultations, with Member
States concerned, on the improvement of translation services;
V
Information technology
1.
Urges the Secretary-General to fill expeditiously the three official posts
in the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat relating to web sites in
Arabic, Chinese and Russian, in accordance with paragraph 151 of General
Assembly resolution 54/249;
2.
Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its
fifty-sixth session on policy issues regarding the translation of non-parliamentary
and public information material into all official languages and the possibility of
providing those materials on the United Nations web site in all official languages;
3.
Also requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at
its fifty-sixth session on the implementation of the new re-engineered optical disk
system, referred to in paragraph 9 of his report; 7
VI
1.
Reaffirms its decision 38/401 concerning the prohibition of smoking in
small conference rooms and the discouragement of smoking in large conference
rooms;
2.
Calls upon representatives of Member States to abide strictly by its
decision 38/401, and strongly encourages all users of United Nations conference
facilities to refrain from smoking in order to avoid exposing non-smokers to
involuntary passive smoking;
3.
rooms.
Strongly discourages smoking in the immediate vicinity of conference
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