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31. Also invites the Secretary-General to take the appropriate measures to
consider the linguistic specificities mentioned in vacancy announcements during the
composition of interview panels for the employment of United Nations staff;
32. Stresses that the promotion of staff in the Professional and higher
categories shall be carried out in strict accordance with Article 101 of the Charter
and in line with the provisions of resolution 2480 B (XXIII) and the relevant
provisions of resolution 55/258 of 14 June 2001;
33. Encourages United Nations staff members to continue actively to use
existing training facilities to acquire and enhance their proficiency in one or more of
the official languages of the United Nations;
34. Notes with interest the cost-neutral initiatives of the Secretariat to
produce publications in several languages, increase the volume of translated
publications and encourage a multilingual acquisition policy for the libraries of the
United Nations, and requests the Secretariat to continue those initiatives;
35. Reaffirms that linguistic diversity is an important element of cultural
diversity, stresses the importance of the full and effective implementation of the
Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural
Expressions, 4 which entered into force on 18 March 2007, and recalls the
Recommendation concerning the Promotion and Use of Multilingualism and
Universal Access to Cyberspace of 15 October 2003; 5
36. Welcomes the activities of the United Nations Educational, Scientific
Cultural Organization, Member States, the entities of the United Nations system
all other participating bodies aimed at fostering respect for and the promotion
protection of all languages, in particular endangered ones, linguistic diversity
multilingualism;
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37. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixty-seventh session a comprehensive report on the full implementation of its
resolutions on multilingualism;
38. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-seventh session
the item entitled “Multilingualism”.
109th plenary meeting
19 July 2011
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference,
Thirty-third Session, Paris, 3–21 October 2005, vol. 1 and corrigenda: Resolutions, chap. V, resolution 41.
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference,
Thirty-second Session, Paris, 29 September–17 October 2003, vol. 1: Resolutions, chap. IV,
recommendation 41.
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