Multilingualism
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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
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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),
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