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Questions relating to information
in strict observance of the principle of full parity of the six official languages of the
United Nations, to promote transparency and accountability within the Organization;
82. Reaffirms the need to enhance the technological infrastructure of the
Department of Public Information, including the United Nations information centres,
on a continuous basis in order to widen the outreach of the Department and to continue
to improve the United Nations website in a cost-neutral manner;
83. Encourages the Department of Public Information, in collaboration with
the Office of Information and Communications Technology, to continue its efforts to
ensure that technological infrastructures and supportive applications in the United
Nations fully support Latin, non-Latin and bidirectional scripts in order to enhance
the equality of all official languages on the United Nations website;
84. Underlines the importance, in the implementation of new communication
tools such as social networks, of taking into account the linguistic dimension in order
to ensure full parity among the official languages of the Organization, and in that
regard stresses the need for United Nations social media campaigns to use hashtags
suitable for each language;
85. Recalls that, in paragraph 34 of its resolution 71/328, the General
Assembly welcomed the realization of the comprehensive review of the United
Nations websites by the Secretary-General, presenting the status of content in
non-official languages, noted with appreciation the innovative ideas, potential
synergies and other cost-neutral measures proposed in the report of the SecretaryGeneral on multilingualism 16 to reinforce the broader multilingual development and
enrichment of the United Nations websites, as appropriate, and requested the
Secretary-General to present an updated version of the review in his next report;
86. Notes the uneven development of social media among the official
languages of the United Nations, and requests the Secretary-General to report to the
Committee on Information at its forty-first session on the strategy of the Department
of Public Information to ensure, by a more balanced use of all six official languages,
that social media contribute to raising awareness of and support for the activities of
the Organization, and to include in the report available analytics, classified by official
language, on audiences of social media accounts managed by the Secretariat;
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Library services
87. Welcomes the efforts of the Department of Public Information to
implement the recommendations of its 2011 working group on library improvement;
88. Commends the steps taken by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the other
member libraries of the Steering Committee for the Modernization and Integrated
Management of United Nations Libraries to align their activities, services and outputs
more closely with the goals, objectives and operational priorities of the Organization,
and calls upon the Dag Hammarskjöld Library to work with the other member
libraries to devise a new statement of strategy for library services and to replace the
former Steering Committee with the Steering Committee for Libraries of the United
Nations focused on practical cooperation among the library services;
89. Reiterates the need to maintain a multilingual collection of books,
periodicals and other materials in both hard copy and electronic formats, accessible to
Member States and others, ensuring that the Dag Hammarskjöld Library co ntinues to
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