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13. Reiterates with concern its request to the Secretary-General to ensure
that the rules concerning the simultaneous distribution of documents in all six
official languages are strictly respected as regards both the distribution of printed
copies and the posting of parliamentary documentation on the Official Document
System and the United Nations website, in keeping with section III, paragraph 5, of
its resolution 55/222 of 23 December 2000;
14.
Emphasizes the importance of:
(a) Making appropriate use of all the official languages of the United
Nations in all the activities of the Department of Public Information of the
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;
15. 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;
16. Encourages the Secretary-General to continue 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;
17. Reaffirms the need to achieve full parity among the six official languages
on United Nations websites;
18. 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;
19. 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, taking into
consideration the specificity of each official language, on a continuous basis;
20. 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;
21. 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;
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