A/RES/73/346
Multilingualism
49. Recognizes the language landing page of the domain un.org as one solution
to enabling multilingualism in United Nations websites, and encourages the
Secretary-General to continue to explore innovative solutions to enhance multilingual
capabilities for Secretariat websites in a cost-neutral manner;
50. Welcomes the mention of the language skills of the members of the senior
leadership in some of the appointment notices issued by the Secretary-General under
un.org, and encourages the Secretary-General to include them in those notices, when
requested by the appointee;
51. Also welcomes the cooperative arrangements undertaken by the
Department of Global Communications with academic institutions to increase the
number of web pages available in official and non-official languages, and requests
the Secretary-General, in coordination with content-providing offices, to extend such
cooperative arrangements, in a cost-effective manner, to all the official languages of
the United Nations, bearing in mind the necessity of adherence to United Nations
standards and guidelines;
52. Underlines the importance, in the implementation of new communication
tools, such as social networks, of taking into account the linguistic dimension in order
to assure full parity among the official languages of the Organization;
53. Acknowledges the increasing importance of social media in order to reach
the widest possible audience, and as such welcomes the growing popularity of the
United Nations official social media accounts across all languages, and encourages
the Department of Global Communications to continue to expand, within existing
resources, its multilingual presence across outlets by providing timely updates on the
work and priorities of the Organization in the six United Nations official languages,
as well as additional non-official languages whenever appropriate;
54. Urges the Secretariat to keep iSeek up to date in the two working
languages of the Secretariat, to continue its efforts to implement iSeek at all duty
stations and 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;
IV
Documentation and conference services
55. Reiterates its request that the Secretary-General complete the task of
uploading all important older United Nations documents to the United Nations
website in all six official languages on a priority basis so that those archives are also
made available to Member States through that medium;
56. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to ensure, through the
provision of documentation services and meetings and publishing services under
conference management, including high-quality translation and interpretation,
effective multilingual communication equally in all the official languages of the
United Nations among representatives of Member States in intergovernmental organs
and among members of United Nations expert bodies;
57. Encourages the Department for General Assembly and Conference
Management, within existing resources and upon request, to document policy
guidance regarding translation outsourcing and quality standards for use by relevant
departments and offices of the Secretariat;
58. Notes the use of innovative translation technologies such as eLUNa that
assist in making human translation more efficient and consistent, and encourages,
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