Multilingualism
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42. Acknowledges the measures undertaken 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
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;
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Field offices and peacekeeping operations
43. 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;
44. Recalls its resolution 66/297, in which it endorsed the proposals,
recommendations and conclusions of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping
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45. Takes note of section II.D.1 of the report of the Secretary-General,
requests the Secretary-General to continue his ongoing efforts in this regard, and
recalls its resolution 66/297 without prejudice to Article 101 of the Charter;
46. Urges the Secretariat to translate all peacekeeping training documents
into the six official languages of the United Nations, from within existing resources,
to enable and facilitate their use by all Member States, troop-contributing countries
and police-contributing countries, in particular, and by other involved institutions;
47. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixty-ninth session a comprehensive report on the full implementation of its
resolutions on multilingualism;
48. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-ninth session the
item entitled “Multilingualism”.
92nd plenary meeting
24 July 2013
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