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Multilingualism
currently being carried out by United Nations Radio in the six official languages, as
well as in non-official languages;
15. Requests the Secretary-General to continue his efforts to ensure that, in
view of their income-generating nature, guided tours at United Nations
Headquarters are consistently available in all six official languages of the United
Nations;
16. Welcomes the initiative of the Secretary-General to also offer guided
tours at United Nations Headquarters in non-official languages;
17. Notes with interest the cost-neutral initiatives of the Secretariat to
produce publications in official and non-official languages, to increase the volume
of translated publications and to encourage a multilingual acquisition policy for the
libraries of the United Nations, and requests the Secretariat to continue those
initiatives;
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Websites and other web-based communication tools
18. Reaffirms the need to achieve full parity among the six official languages
on all United Nations websites, and in this regard requests the Secretary-General to
include in his upcoming report on multilingualism a comprehensive review of the
United Nations websites, including content discrepancies among the official
languages, as well as to identify innovative ideas, potential synergies and other costneutral measures to achieve full parity among the six official languages;
19. Requests the Secretary-General to include in his upcoming report on
multilingualism a comprehensive review of the United Nations websites, presenting
the status of content in non-official languages, as well as identifying innovative
ideas, potential synergies and other cost-neutral measures to reinforce the broader
multilingual development and enrichment of the United Nations websites, as
appropriate;
20. Urges the Secretary-General to strengthen his efforts to develop,
maintain and update multilingual United Nations websites and the web page of the
Secretary-General in all the official languages of the United Nations, from within
existing resources and on an equitable basis;
21. Reaffirms its request to the Secretary-General to ensure, while
maintaining an up-to-date and accurate website, the equitable distribution of
financial and human resources within the Department of Public Information
allocated to the United Nations website among all six official languages, with full
respect for the needs and specificities of all six languages;
22. Notes with concern that the multilingual development and enrichment of
the United Nations website in certain 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 advance actions to
achieve full parity among the six official languages on the United Nations website,
in particular by expediting the filling of vacant posts in some sections;
23. Takes note of sections II.D and II.E of the report of the SecretaryGeneral, 6 requests the Secretary-General to continue his ongoing efforts in this
regard, and urges all content-providing offices in the Secretariat to strengthen their
efforts to translate into all official languages all English-language materials and
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