A/RES/55/222 enhance further the productivity of conference services, and to keep the General Assembly informed of the introduction and use of any other new technology; 2. Also reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to ensure that training opportunities in the six official languages are equally available to all language staff, including those at duty stations away from Headquarters; 3. Requests the Secretary-General, in exceptional cases where an interpreter is assigned to an interpretation booth for which he or she has not passed the requisite competitive examination of the Interpretation Service, to set up an internal examination with standards similar to those of the competitive examinations of the Interpretation Service, which the interpreter must pass before such assignment; 4. Reiterates its understanding that the introduction of remote interpretation is not intended to replace traditional interpretation systems without the explicit approval of the General Assembly; 5. Reaffirms its decision that, in the absence of a decision of the General Assembly to the contrary, the use of remote interpretation shall not constitute an alternative to the current institutionalized system of interpretation; 6. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that trials of remote interpretation are not confined to specific duty stations and that each duty station is considered as both recipient and provider; 7. Reaffirms its decision that the use of remote interpretation should not affect the quality of interpretation or in itself lead to any further reduction in language posts, nor will it affect the equal treatment of the six official languages; 8. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that future reports on the question of remote interpretation include an analysis of all costs of any proposed system, its impact on the working conditions of interpreters, the level of service provided to delegates, the satisfaction of delegations with the interpretation and the technical aspects of this method of interpretation; 9. Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure that efforts continue to be made to improve the quality control of language services at all duty stations; 10. Takes note of the technical difficulties and timing problems, referred to in paragraph 9 of the report of the Advisory Committee,4 regarding remote interpretation, and requests the Secretary-General to clarify further the technical issues involved; 11. Requests the Secretary-General to comply with paragraphs 33 to 36 of its resolution 53/208 A, and also requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Assembly at its fifty-sixth session, through the Committee on Conferences and the Advisory Committee, a report on possible measures to alleviate the excessive vacancy rates in language services at some duty stations and to ensure the required quality of conference services Secretariat-wide; 12. Urges the Secretary-General to continue his efforts to implement the system of incentives to attract language staff to duty stations with high vacancy rates, and requests him to submit a comprehensive report to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session analysing problems relating to recruitment in language services at all duty stations and proposing actions to address them; 13. Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to ensure that translation, in principle, reflects the specificity of each language; 6