A/RES/51/211 Page 4 5. Reiterates its recommendations on the control and limitation of documentation made to intergovernmental bodies in its resolution 50/206 C, and requests these bodies to report to it, through the Committee on Conferences, on measures taken to implement that resolution; 6. Requests the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to continue to keep it informed, through the Committee on Conferences, of its experience with the use of unedited transcripts; 7. Takes note of the decision of the Committee on Conferences contained in paragraph 89 of its report,5 and requests the Committee to report on the implementation of that decision to the General Assembly at its fiftysecond session; 8. Stresses once again the need for strict compliance with the existing limits of twenty-four pages for documents originating in the Secretariat and thirty-two pages for reports of subsidiary bodies; 9. Requests the Secretary-General to submit every two years, through the Committee on Conferences, updated information on the number and length of documents; 10. Also requests the Secretary-General, to the extent possible, to inform bodies, at the time they request reports, whether the documents can be produced within established page limits; 11. Further requests the Secretary-General to pursue his efforts to improve the quality in the substance and presentation of documentation, applying new publishing techniques to enhance readability and reduce consumption of paper; 12. Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to ensure that documentation is available in accordance with the six-week rule for the distribution of documents, simultaneously in each of the six official languages of the United Nations; 13. Reaffirms its decision that, should a report be issued late, the reasons for the delay should be indicated when the report is introduced; 14. Reiterates its request to the Joint Inspection Unit to conduct a comprehensive survey of the role publications play in implementing mandates of intergovernmental bodies and the extent to which recurrent publications could be made more cost-effective in this regard, and to submit a report on this matter no later than the end of the fifty-first session. 89th plenary meeting 18 December 1996 5 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 32 and corrigendum (A/51/32 and Corr.1). /...