A/RES/71/262 Pattern of conferences 20. Also welcomes the efforts undertaken by the Secretary-General to increase the utilization rates of conference-servicing resources, and in this regard encourages the Secretary-General to enhance the efficiency of conference servicing and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its seventy-second session; 21. Requests the Secretary-General to consult Member States on initiatives that affect the utilization of conference services and conference facilities; 22. Notes that for meetings held in New York of bodies entitled to meet “as required”, 97 per cent of requests for interpretation were met in 2015, as compared with 97 per cent in 2014 and 98 per cent in 2013, and requests the Secretary-General to continue to impress upon such bodies the need to continue to improve the utilization of the conference services provided and to report on the provision of conference services to those bodies through the Committee on Conferences; 23. Recognizes the importance of meetings of regional and other major groupings of Member States for the smooth functioning of the sessions of intergovernmental bodies, requests the Secretary-General to ensure that, as far as possible, all requests for conference services for the meetings of regio nal and other major groupings of Member States are met, and requests the Secretariat to inform the requesters as early as possible about the availability of conference services, including interpretation, as well as about any changes that might occur before the holding of meetings; 24. Notes that the percentage of meetings held by regional and other major groupings of Member States that were provided with interpretation services at the four main duty stations was 83 per cent in 2015, as compared with 85 per cent in 2014 and 93 per cent in 2013, and requests the Secretary-General to continue to employ innovative means to address the difficulties experienced by Member States owing to the lack of conference services for some meetings of regional and other major groupings of Member States and to report thereon to the General Assembly through the Committee on Conferences; 25. Once again urges intergovernmental bodies to spare no effort at the planning stage to take into account the meetings of regional and other major groupings of Member States, to make provision for such meetings in their programmes of work and to notify conference services, well in advance, of any cancellations so that unutilized conference-servicing resources may, to the extent possible, be reassigned to meetings of regional and other major groupings of Member States; 26. Welcomes the efforts of all users of conference services to inform the Secretariat as early as possible of any cancellation of service requests so as to allow for such services to be smoothly redeployed to other meetings; 27. Notes with satisfaction that, in accordance with several resolutions of the General Assembly, including resolution 70/9, paragraph 23, in conformity with the headquarters rule, all meetings of Nairobi-based United Nations bodies were held in Nairobi in 2015, and requests the Secretary-General to report thereon to the Assembly at its seventy-second session through the Committee on Conferences; 28. Notes the ongoing efforts aimed at improving the conference facilities at the Economic Commission for Africa, and in this regard encourages the Secretary General to ensure that the improvement of the facilities, in particular Africa Hall, is completed in a timely manner; 4/14