A/RES/73/346
Multilingualism
34. Welcomes the creation of the United Nations digital library, which
provides multilingual content, and encourages the United Nations libraries to
continue to take into consideration the importance of multilingualism in their
activities;
35. Notes with appreciation the efforts of the Department of Global
Communications to work at the local level with other organizations and bodies of the
United Nations system to enhance the coordination of their communications
activities, and urges the Department to encourage the United Nations
Communications Group to promote linguistic diversity in its work;
36. Recalls paragraph 71 of its resolution 73/102 B, and encourages the
Department of Global Communications to prioritize the development of collaborative
arrangements for the digitization of the audiovisual archives of the United Nations
while preserving their multilingual character in a cost-neutral manner;
37. Welcomes the Department of Global Communications partnerships with
universities for translation services on a pro bono basis, and requests the Secretary General to grow the number of such partnerships;
38. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to exert all efforts to ensure
that publications and other information services of the Secretariat, including the
United Nations website, social media platforms and the United Nations News Service,
contain comprehensive, balanced, objective and equitable information in all official
languages about the issues before the Organization and that they maintain editorial
independence, impartiality, accuracy and full consistency with resolutions and
decisions of the General Assembly;
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Websites, social media and other web-based communication tools
39. Reaffirms that the United Nations website is an essential tool for Member
States, the media, non-governmental organizations, educational institutions and the
general public;
40. Also reaffirms the need to achieve full parity among the six official
languages on all United Nations websites, welcomes in this regard the renewed efforts
of the Secretary-General to conduct a comprehensive review of the United Nations
websites, including content discrepancies among the official languages, notes with
appreciation the innovative ideas, potential synergies and other cost-neutral measures
proposed in the report of the Secretary-General on multilingualism to achieve full
parity among the six official languages, and requests the Secretary-General to present
an updated version of the review to the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session;
41. Welcomes the renewed efforts of the Secretary-General to conduct a
comprehensive review of the United Nations websites, presenting the status of content
in non-official languages, notes with appreciation the innovative ideas, potential
synergies and other cost-neutral measures proposed in the report of the SecretaryGeneral on multilingualism to reinforce the broader multilingual development and
enrichment of the United Nations websites, as appropriate, and requests the SecretaryGeneral to present an updated version of this review to the General Assembly at its
seventy-fifth session;
42. Recalls paragraph 35 of its resolution 71/328, notes with concern the
disparity between the English and the non-English languages on the websites
maintained by the Secretariat, urges the Secretary-General to lead the efforts of all
offices and departments of the Secretariat to take concrete action to address such
uneven development, and in this regard calls upon all stakeholders, including the
Department of Global Communications, content-providing Secretariat entities and the
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