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Questions relating to information
detailed information about such partnerships with broadcasting stations as well as
statistics about their multiplying impacts on potential audiences;
66. Requests the Department of Public Information to continue to build
partnerships with local, national and regional broadcasters to extend the United
Nations message to all corners of the world in an accurate and impartial way, and
requests the News and Media Division of the Department to continue to take full
advantage of modern technologies and equipment;
67. Welcomes the completion of an inventory of 67 years of United Nations
audiovisual history and, recognizing the importance of the audiovisual archives of the
United Nations, stresses the urgency of digitization in order to prevent further
deterioration of these unique historical archives, encourages the Department of Public
Information to prioritize the development of collaborative arrangements for the
digitization of these archives while preserving their multilingual character, in a cost neutral manner, and to report thereon to the Committee on Information at its fortieth
session, and welcomes the contribution of Oman 14 in this regard;
68. Notes, in this regard, the proposed strategy for the digitization of the
United Nations audiovisual archive materials for long-term preservation, access and
sustainable management, 15 and requests the Department of Public Information to
submit for consideration by the relevant bodies both a detailed proposal for the mass
digitization of the audiovisual collections, within existing resources, and plans to
solicit voluntary contributions to fund the digitization and storage of the audiovisua l
archives;
United Nations website
69. Reaffirms that the United Nations website is an essential tool for Member
States and for the general public, the media, non-governmental organizations and
educational institutions, and in this regard reiterates the continued need for
strengthened efforts by the Department of Public Information to regularly maintain,
update and improve it;
70. Recognizes the potential of United Nations websites to offer multilingual
and multimedia content, integrating written, spoken and visual elements in all of the
official languages, and encourages the Department of Public Information to work
towards such an objective;
71. Also recognizes the efforts made by the Secretariat to implement the basic
accessibility requirements for persons with disabilities to gain access to and take part
in the work of the United Nations in person or online, including through the work of
the Accessibility Centre at United Nations Headquarters, calls upon the Department
of Public Information to continue to work towards compliance with accessibility
requirements on all new and updated pages of the website, with the aim of ensuring
its accessibility for persons with different kinds of disabilities, and in this regard
encourages the Department of Public Information and the Department for General
Assembly and Conference Management to further cooperate and identify potential
synergies;
72. Reaffirms the need to achieve full parity among the six official languages
on all United Nations websites, and 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;
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