A/RES/57/130 A-B of Public Information, in order to achieve full parity among the official languages of the United Nations; 65. Reaffirms its request to the Secretary-General to ensure, until such a decision has been taken and implemented, to the extent possible and while maintaining an up-to-date and accurate web site, the equitable distribution of financial and human resources within the Department of Public Information allocated to the United Nations web site among all official languages on a continuous basis, and to make every possible effort to ensure that all materials contained on the web site that do not change and do not need regular maintenance are made available in all six official languages; 66. Reaffirms the need to achieve full parity among the six official languages on the United Nations web site, and, in this regard, takes note of the proposal of the Secretary-General, as contained in paragraph 33 of his report, 10 to translate into all official languages all English materials and databases posted on the United Nations web site by the respective content-providing offices of the Secretariat, and requests the Secretary-General to report to the Committee on Information at its twenty-fifth session on the most practical, efficient and cost-effective means of implementing this proposal; 67. Requests the Secretary-General to include in his report to the Committee on Information at its twenty-fifth session proposals relating to the designation of a date by which all supporting arrangements would be in place for the implementation of this concept and after which parity would continue and relating to the exemption from translation of specific items on the web site; 68. Stresses the importance of access for the public to the United Nations treaty collection and United Nations parliamentary documentation; 69. Encourages the Secretary-General, through the Department of Public Information, to continue to take full advantage of recent developments in information technology, including the Internet, in order to improve, in a costeffective manner, the expeditious dissemination of information on the United Nations, in accordance with the priorities established by the General Assembly and taking into account the linguistic diversity of the Organization; 70. Notes that the High-Level Committee on Management of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination has requested its Technical Adviser to prepare and submit to it a preliminary study on the issue of one central Internet portal for the United Nations system, and requests the Department of Public Information, as the manager of the Organization’s web site, to convey the considerations of the Committee on Information on this matter and to report thereon to the Committee on Information at its twenty-fifth session; 71. Takes note of the reports of the Secretary-General on the re-engineering of the Optical Disk System, now called the Official Document System of the United Nations, 11 and on the simultaneous availability of parliamentary documentation in electronic form in the six official languages on the United Nations web site; 12 72. Commends the Information Technology Services Division of the Office of Central Support Services of the Secretariat on its efforts in ensuring that the _______________ 11 12 A/56/120/Rev.1 A/C.5/56/12. 13

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