Multilingualism A/RES/73/346 six United Nations official languages, and requests the Secretary-General to report on progress made in this regard during the seventy-fifth session of the General Assembly; 79. Recognizes the key contribution of the Language and Communications Programme to promoting multilingualism within the United Nations, supporting the language needs of the Organization at Headquarters and in the field, in collaboration with other Secretariat entities, requests the Secretary-General to ensure full implementation of the existing mandate on linguistic training to continue the delivery of an offer adapted to the need of the United Nations, and also requests the SecretaryGeneral to provide further information in this regard at the seventy-fifth session of the General Assembly; VI Language services staff 80. Recalls its resolution 66/233 of 24 December 2011, in particular paragraph 7 of section III thereof, reiterates its request that the Secretary-General ensure that all language services are given equal treatment and are provided with equally favourable working conditions and resources, with a view to achieving maximum quality of services, with full respect for the specificities of the six official languages, and in that regard recalls section D, paragraph 11, of its resolution 54/248 of 23 December 1999; 81. Acknowledges the measures taken by the Secretary-General, in accordance with its resolutions, to address the issue of the replacement of retiring staff in the language services, and requests the Secretary-General to maintain and to intensify those efforts, including through the strengthening of cooperation with institutions that train language specialists to meet the needs in the six official languages of the United Nations; VII Multilingualism across the three pillars of the United Nations 82. Acknowledges the contribution of multilingualism to the three pillars of the United Nations: peace and security, development and human rights; 83. Notes the work of the Secretary-General in making available multilingual information, technical assistance and training materials related to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 10 and encourages the SecretaryGeneral to continue his efforts in this regard; 84. Stresses the importance of proposing United Nations information, technical assistance and training materials, whenever possible, in the local languages of the beneficiary countries, including through locally based United Nations websites; 85. Takes note of the recommendations related to multilingualism contained in the report of the High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations, 11 the subsequent report of the Secretary-General 12 and the report of the Advisory Group of Experts on the Review of the Peacebuilding Architecture; 13 86. Recalls its resolution 72/304, in which it endorsed the proposals, recommendations and conclusions of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations; 14 __________________ 10 11 12 13 14 19-15935 Resolution 70/1. See A/70/95-S/2015/446. A/70/357-S/2015/682. See A/69/968-S/2015/490. Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 19 (A/72/19), chap. V. 11/12

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