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Pattern of conferences
number of memorandums of understanding in order to fulfil the needs of the
Organization;
98. Requests the Secretary-General to make further concerted efforts to
promote outreach programmes, such as traineeships and internships, and to
introduce innovative methods to increase awareness of the programmes, including
through partnerships with Member States, relevant international organizations and
language institutions in all regions, in particular to close the wide gap in Africa and
Latin America, and to report to the General Assembly thereon at its sixty-ninth
session;
99. Notes that the “African project” has the aim of establishing postgraduate
university programmes in translation, conference interpreting and public service
interpreting through centres of excellence on the African continent, and requests the
Secretary-General to continue to report on the achievements of this project;
100. Requests the Department for General Assembly and Conference
Management, in cooperation with the Office of Human Resources Management, to
continue to increase its efforts to raise awareness among all Member States about
opportunities for employment and internships in the language services at the four
main duty stations;
101. Notes with appreciation the positive experience with traineeships at
Headquarters and at the United Nations Office at Vienna in training young
professionals in and attracting them to the translation and interpretation services of
the United Nations, while enhancing the pool of qualified language professionals in
language combinations that are critical for succession-planning purposes, and
requests the Secretary-General to develop the initiative further, to extend it to all
duty stations and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth
session;
102. Notes that the lists of individuals and entities subject to sanctions,
according to the sanctions committees of the Security Council, have not yet been
translated into all six official languages, reiterates its recommendation that the
Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions of the
Security Council look further into the practices related to the issuance of these lists,
including their translation, and requests the Secretary-General to report thereon at
the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly;
103. Requests the Secretary-General to refrain from making any change of a
substantive nature to agreed texts of both draft and adopted resolutions and to report
thereon to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session, including on measures to
enhance the quality, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of editing services within
existing resources.
72nd plenary meeting
27 December 2013
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