A/RES/59/313 on an annual basis following consultations with the incoming President, beginning at the sixtieth session of the Assembly; (c) Making available to the President of the General Assembly adequate office and conference space with a view to enabling the President to carry out his/her functions in a manner commensurate with the dignity and stature of the Office; (d) Requesting the Secretary-General to ensure that the President of the General Assembly is provided with proper protocol services at Headquarters and at other United Nations duty stations; Agenda and working methods of the plenary Assembly and the Main Committees 4. Decides to establish an ad hoc working group open to all Member States to identify ways to further enhance the role, authority, effectiveness and efficiency of the General Assembly, inter alia, by building on relevant Assembly resolutions and reviewing the agenda and working methods of the Assembly; Decides also that the ad hoc working group shall submit a report with 5. specific recommendations to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session; 6. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the ad hoc working group with the necessary services; 7. Encourages the Main Committees to implement in full the provisions contained in paragraph 3 of the annex to resolution 58/316 of 1 July 2004, building upon the results of relevant discussions in each Committee; Encourages the bureaux of the Main Committees to enhance their 8. cooperation and to learn from each other’s best practices; 9. Requests the Chairpersons of the Main Committees, at the end of their terms of office, to provide a short report on their observations and “lessons learned” to their immediate successors; 10. Decides that time limits on speeches in the plenary Assembly and in the Main Committees shall be applied in accordance with rules 72 and 114 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly; 11. Strongly urges all officers presiding over meetings of the General Assembly to start such meetings on time; 12. Encourages the holding of interactive debates with a view to contributing to intergovernmental decision-making; 13. Invites Member States that are aligned with statements already made by the chair of a group of Member States, where possible, to focus additional interventions that they make in their national capacity on points that have not already been adequately addressed in the statements of the group in question, bearing in mind the sovereign right of each Member State to express its national position; 14. Requests the Secretary-General to issue the rules of procedure of the General Assembly in a consolidated version in all official languages, in print and online; 15. Recommends consideration of the use of optical scanners as a means of expediting the counting of votes cast through secret ballots during elections, taking due account of the security requirements in this regard and the credibility, reliability 3