A/RES/53/100 Page 3 4. Welcomes the work done by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the field of the peaceful settlement of disputes, including the adoption of its optional rules of procedure for fact-finding commissions of inquiry, which entered into effect on 15 December 1997; 5. Encourages States to disseminate at the national level, as appropriate, information contained in the note by the Secretary-General;1 6. Authorizes the Secretary-General to deposit, on behalf of the United Nations, an act of formal confirmation of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations,2 as provided for in article 83 of the Convention; 7. Encourages States to consider ratifying or acceding to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations, international organizations that have signed the Convention to deposit an act of formal confirmation of the Convention, and other international organizations entitled to do so to accede to it at an early date; 8. Encourages States parties and international organizations or agencies, including depositaries, in order to facilitate further implementation of the obligation laid down in Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations, to provide, where available, a copy of the text of any treaty in disk or other electronic format and to consider providing, where available, translations in English or French or both, as may be needed, for the purpose of assisting with the timely publication of the United Nations Treaty Series; 9. Expresses its appreciation to the Office of Legal Affairs of the Secretariat for its efforts to facilitate access to information concerning United Nations activities in the field of international law, and to bring up to date the publication of the United Nations Juridical Yearbook, and encourages it to continue its efforts in this regard; 10. Also expresses its appreciation to the Secretary-General for the progress achieved in establishing a new electronic database for the United Nations Treaty Collection, and encourages him to continue the development of this database with a view to expeditiously providing Member States with a greater range of easily accessible treaty-related information; 11. Encourages the Secretary-General to continue developing a policy of providing Internet access to the United Nations Treaty Series and the Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General, bearing in mind the needs of States, in particular developing countries, in recovering the costs thereof, and requests the Secretary-General to report on this issue at its fifty-fourth session; 12. Requests the Secretary-General to provide all necessary assistance, including translation services, to implement the plan to eliminate the historical backlog in the publication of the United Nations Treaty Series within the next biennium; 13. Expresses its appreciation to the Secretary-General for his note containing a list of the titles of the treaties appearing in the publication Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General;4 4 A/53/525. /...