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Secretariat, with the aim of eliminating the disparity between the use of English and
the use of the five other official languages;
(b) Ensuring the full and equitable treatment of all the official languages of
the United Nations in all the activities of the Department of Public Information;
and, in this regard, reaffirms its request to the Secretary-General to ensure that the
Department has appropriate staffing capacity in all the official languages of the
United Nations to undertake all its activities;
14. Requests the Secretary-General to continue his efforts to ensure that, in
accordance with their income-generating nature, guided tours at United Nations
Headquarters are consistently available, in particular, in all six official languages of
the United Nations;
15. Encourages the Secretary-General to strengthen his efforts to develop
and maintain multilingual United Nations websites, from within existing resources,
including efforts to keep the Secretary-General’s web page up to date in all the
official languages of the United Nations;
16. Reaffirms the need to achieve full parity among the six official languages
on United Nations websites;
17. Also reaffirms that the United Nations website is an essential tool for
Member States, the media, educational institutions, the general public and
non-governmental organizations, and reiterates the continued need for efforts by the
Department of Public Information to maintain and improve it;
18. Further reaffirms its request to the Secretary-General to ensure, while
maintaining an up-to-date and accurate website, the adequate distribution of
financial and human resources within the Department of Public Information
allocated to the United Nations website among all official languages, with full
respect for the specificities of the six official languages;
19. Notes with concern that the multilingual development and enrichment of
the United Nations website in several official languages has improved at a much
slower rate than expected, and in this regard requests the Department of Public
Information, in coordination with content-providing offices, to improve the actions
taken to achieve parity among the six official languages on the United Nations
website, in particular by expediting the filling of current vacant posts in some
sections;
20. Requests the Department of Public Information, in cooperation with the
Office of Information and Communications Technology of the Secretariat, to
continue its efforts to ensure that technological infrastructures and supportive
applications fully support Latin, non-Latin and bidirectional scripts in order to
enhance the equality of all official languages on the United Nations website;
21. Welcomes the cooperative arrangements undertaken by the Department of
Public Information with academic institutions in order to increase the number of
web pages available in some official languages, and requests the Secretary-General,
in coordination with content-providing offices, to extend these cooperative
arrangements, in a cost-effective manner, to all the official languages of the United
Nations, bearing in mind the necessity of adherence to United Nations standards and
guidelines;
22. Urges the Secretariat to keep iSeek up to date in the two working
languages of the Secretariat, to continue its efforts to implement iSeek at all duty
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