A/RES/59/265 9. Notes with concern the sharp disparities in interpretation and translation vacancy rates between the United Nations Office at Nairobi and the other duty stations; 10. Requests the Secretary-General to pay greater attention to succession planning in order to fill emerging vacancies in language services in a timely manner through outreach to eligible applicants; 11. Also requests the Secretary-General to continue conducting competitive examinations in all official languages in order to fill emerging vacancies in language services in a timely manner; V Information technology 1. Notes the progress achieved thus far across duty stations in integrating information technology into management and documentation-processing systems and the global approach to sharing standards, good practices and technological achievements among the conference services at all duty stations; Welcomes efforts undertaken by the Secretary-General at the United 2. Nations Office at Nairobi to include the Office in sharing of standards, good practices and technological achievements with the other United Nations Offices, consistent with its operational requirements; Requests the Secretary-General to intensify the efforts to strengthen the 3. information technology capacity at the United Nations Office at Nairobi, to redeploy existing resources, as appropriate, to meet emerging priorities and to revert to this issue, as appropriate, in the context of the regular budget for the period 2006–2007; Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure the compatibility of 4. technologies used in all duty stations and to ensure that they are user-friendly for all official languages; VI 1. Notes the comments in paragraphs 56 to 60 of the report of the SecretaryGeneral, 11 and paragraphs 12 to 14 of the report of the Committee on Conferences;1 2. Decides to revert to the issue of biennialization of the agenda item entitled “Pattern of conferences” in the context of improving the working methods of the Fifth Committee. 76th plenary meeting 23 December 2004 _______________ 11 8 A/59/159.