A/RES/52/214 Page 2 3. Authorizes the Committee on Conferences to make adjustments in the calendar of conferences and meetings for 1998 that may become necessary as a result of actions and decisions taken by the General Assembly at its fifty-second session; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to provide all the conference services required as a result of decisions taken by the General Assembly at its fifty-second session, taking into account, as necessary, the procedures established in Assembly resolutions 41/213 of 19 December 1986 and 42/211 of 21 December 1987; 5. Decides that henceforth the two holidays of Id al-Fitr and Id al-Adha shall be observed as official holidays of the United Nations at Headquarters, and at other duty stations where applicable, and that United Nations buildings at those locations shall be closed to the public on those days; 6. Decides also that no United Nations meetings shall be held on Id al-Fitr and Id al-Adha, which occur in 1998 on 29 January and 7 April, respectively, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure strict implementation of this decision and of paragraph 5 above when preparing all future draft calendars of conferences and meetings of the United Nations; 7. Expresses concern that 32 per cent of requests were denied for interpretation services for meetings of regional and other major groupings of Member States, in view of the importance of those meetings for the smooth functioning of sessional bodies, while recognizing that meetings of Charter and mandated bodies must be serviced as a priority; 8. Urges intergovernmental bodies to spare no effort at the planning stage to take into account meetings of regional and other major groupings of Member States, to make provision for such meetings in their programmes of work and to notify the 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 States; 9. Decides to include all necessary resources in the budget for the biennium 1998-1999 to provide interpretation services for meetings of regional and other major groupings of Member States upon request by those groupings, on an ad hoc basis, in accordance with established practice, and requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session, through the Committee on Conferences, a report on the implementation of this decision; 10. Emphasizes the importance of providing adequate conference-servicing resources to all United Nations conference centres; 11. Welcomes the improvement, relative to 1995, in the overall utilization factor for 1996, which exceeded the benchmark of 80 per cent, in particular at Geneva and Vienna; 12. Notes with concern the underutilization of conference facilities at the United Nations Office at Nairobi; 13. Calls for better utilization of conference facilities at the United Nations Office at Nairobi; 14. Encourages all the subsidiary bodies of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme, the Commission on Human Settlements and other United Nations bodies to hold their meetings at the United Nations Office at Nairobi to the extent possible; 15. Requests the Secretary-General to assist the aforementioned bodies in improving this situation and to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session, through the Committee on Conferences, on the actions taken to this end; /...