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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;
76. 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,
including United Nations Web TV, its video content and metadata, 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;
77. Notes with concern that the multilingual development and enrichment of
the United Nations website in certain official languages has improved at a much
slower rate than expected, and in this regard urges the Department of Public
Information, in coordination with content-providing offices, to advance actions taken
to achieve full parity among the six official languages on the United Nations website;
78. 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 Public Information, content-providing offices and departments, in
particular the Office of Information and Communications Technology of the
Secretariat, to continue their collaboration, within their respective mandates, so as to
achieve full parity among the six official languages on all United Nations websites
developed and maintained by all Secretariat entities, in full conformity with the
principles of multilingualism and in compliance with the relevant resolutions
addressing multilingualism and accessibility for persons with disabilities, by making
every effort to translate materials currently available only in English and by providing
offices and departments with technological solutions that comply with the principle
of parity, from within existing resources;
79. Reaffirms its request to the Secretary-General to ensure, while maintaining
an up-to-date and accurate website, the equitable distribution among all official
languages of financial and human resources within the Department of Public
Information allocated to the United Nations website, with full respect for the needs
and the specificities of all six official languages;
80. Welcomes the cooperative arrangements undertaken by the Department of
Public Information with academic institutions to increa se 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;
81. Encourages the continuation of live webcasts of public meetings of the
General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and their respective subsidiary
bodies, as well as of the Security Council, with interpretation services, and requests the
Secretariat to make every effort to provide full access to archived videos in all official
languages of all past open formal United Nations meetings with interpretation services,
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