A/RES/56/242 13. Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to ensure that training opportunities in the six official languages are equally available to all language staff, including those at duty stations away from Headquarters; 14. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that efforts continue to be made to improve the quality control of language services at all duty stations; 15. Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to ensure that translation, in principle, reflects the specificity of each language; 16. 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; 17. Further reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to hold informational meetings in order to brief Member States periodically on the terminology used; 18. Requests the Secretary-General to conduct consultations, with Member States concerned, on the improvement of translation services; V Information technology 1. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fiftyseventh session a progress report on the use of information technology in the Department of General Assembly Affairs and Conference Services, including voice recognition, remote translation, computer-assisted translation, the Electronic Documents Registration, Information and Tracking System, the new stock control system for documents and publications, digitization of meeting recording systems, electronic planning and servicing of meetings, and computerized terminology data banks, specifying in particular the impact of these technologies on the working methods and productivity of the personnel of the Department; 2. Notes with concern the content of paragraph 7 of the report of the SecretaryGeneral,7 which stresses that progress in the development of the United Nations web site on the Internet in the six official languages has been slower than expected, and that the realization of a truly equal multilingual web site will remain elusive. 92nd plenary meeting 24 December 2001 _______________ 7 A/AC.198/2001/8. 7