A/RES/59/265 appropriate, for a more efficient delivery of services, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session; 14. Emphasizes that all duty stations shall be given adequate resources for the effective and efficient discharge of their respective mandates, and in this respect welcomes the efforts of the Secretary-General to provide the available conferenceservicing management tools and best practices to all duty stations; 15. Recognizes the importance of meetings of regional and other major groupings of Member States for the smooth functioning of the sessions of intergovernmental bodies, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure that, as far as possible, all requests for conference services for meetings of regional and other major groupings of Member States are met; 16. Notes with concern that the percentage of meetings held by regional and other major groupings of Members States that were provided with interpretation services during the reporting period from May 2003 to April 2004 decreased to 90 per cent from 92 per cent during the period from May 2002 to April 2003 for the four main duty stations; 17. Notes that, in absolute terms, the number of meetings provided with interpretation services was 10 per cent higher in the period 2003–2004 than in the period 2002–2003; 18. Recalls that meetings held by regional and other major groupings of Member States are provided with interpretation services on an ad hoc basis, in accordance with established practice; 19. Requests the Secretary-General to review the current established practice concerning the provision of interpretation services for meetings of regional and other major groupings of Member States at Headquarters and other duty stations, with a view to improving the provision of interpretation services to those meetings; B. Reform of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management 1. Reaffirms that the Fifth Committee is the appropriate Main Committee of the General Assembly entrusted with responsibilities for administrative and budgetary matters; Notes the steps taken by the Secretary-General in the implementation of 2. the reform measures put forward in his report on the reform of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management of the Secretariat 9 in accordance with section II.B of its resolutions 57/283 B and 58/250, and encourages the continued implementation of the measures described in paragraph 65 of his report, subject to the provisions of the present resolution; Appreciates the efforts of the Secretary-General in providing timely and 3. detailed information during the consideration of the item entitled “Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly”; Affirms that the consideration of and decisions on the revitalization of the 4. General Assembly remain its prerogative; _______________ 9 4 A/59/172.