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20. Notes with concern the difficulties experienced by some Member States owing
to the lack of conference services for some meetings of regional and other major groupings
of Member States;
21. Requests the Secretary-General to provide information on meetings of regional
and other major groupings of Member States not serviced by conference services in the
context of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2002–2003;
22. Also requests the Secretary-General, when preparing budget proposals for
conference services, to ensure that the level of resources proposed for temporary assistance
is commensurate with the full demand for services, estimated on the basis of current
experience;
23. Further requests the Secretary-General to continue to report on the utilization
rates of interpretation services and conference facilities at all duty stations;
24. Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to consider improving and
modernizing the conference facilities at the United Nations Office at Nairobi in order to
accommodate adequately major meetings and conferences, and to report thereon to the
General Assembly at its resumed fifty-sixth session, through the Committee on
Conferences;
III
Documentation- and publication-related matters
1.
Notes with deep concern the low rate of compliance with the six-week rule for
the issuance of documentation, and encourages the Secretary-General, in view of the
impact of late submissions on the timely issuance of documents, to deal with this alarming
situation;
2.
Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to ensure that documentation is
available in accordance with the six-week rule for the distribution of documents
simultaneously in the six official languages of the General Assembly;
3.
Deeply regrets the failure of author departments to abide by section III,
paragraph 5, of its resolution 55/222, and in this regard requests the Secretary-General to
take corrective measures to ensure the full implementation of this provision and to report
to the General Assembly in the first part of its resumed fifty-sixth session;
4.
Notes that the failure to abide by that provision also connotes failure to abide
by the six-week rule for the availability of documents as well as General Assembly
resolution 50/11 on multilingualism, in which the Assembly recalled the need to ensure the
simultaneous distribution of documents in the six official languages of the United Nations;
5.
Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to direct all departments to
include, where appropriate, the following elements in reports originating in the Secretariat:
(a)
A summary of the report;
(b)
Consolidated conclusions, recommendations and other proposed actions;
(c)
Relevant background information;
6.
Reiterates that all documents submitted to legislative organs by the Secretariat
and expert bodies for consideration and action should have conclusions and
recommendations in bold print;
7.
Requests the Office of Internal Oversight Services to submit its reports in
accordance with paragraph 12 of General Assembly resolution 53/208 B;
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