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(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. Reaffirms the need to achieve full parity among the six official languages
on United Nations websites, and in this regard:
(a) Encourages the Secretary-General to continue his efforts to develop
multilingual United Nations websites;
(b) Reaffirms that the United Nations website is an essential tool for the
media, non-governmental organizations, educational institutions, Member States and
the general public, and reiterates the continued need for efforts by the Department
of Public Information to maintain and improve it;
(c) 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, taking into
consideration the specificity of each official language on a continuous basis;
(d) Notes that the multilingual development and enrichment of the United
Nations website has improved, although at a slower rate than expected owing to
constraints that need to be addressed;
(e) 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;
(f) Recognizes that some official languages use non-Latin and bidirectional
scripts and that technological infrastructures and supportive applications in the
United Nations are based on Latin script, which leads to difficulties in processing
non-Latin and bidirectional scripts, and requests the Department of Public
Information, in cooperation with the Information Technology Services Division of
the Department of Management of the Secretariat, to continue its efforts to ensure
that technological infrastructures and supportive applications in the United Nations
fully support Latin, non-Latin and bidirectional scripts in order to enhance the
equality of all official languages on the United Nations website;
15. Welcomes the cooperative arrangements undertaken by the Department of
Public Information with academic institutions to increase the number of web pages
available in some official languages, and requests the Secretary-General to explore
additional cost-neutral ways to further extend these cooperative arrangements, in
coordination with content-providing offices, so as to include all the official
languages of the United Nations, bearing in mind the necessity of adherence to
United Nations standards and guidelines;
16. Notes with satisfaction the official launch of iSeek in Geneva in the two
working languages of the Secretariat, and encourages the Secretariat to continue its
efforts to implement iSeek at all duty stations as well as to develop and implement
cost-neutral measures to provide Member States with secure access to the
information currently accessible only on the Intranet of the Secretariat;
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