A/RES/65/311 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; and and and and 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 _______________ 4 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. 5 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. 5

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