Multilingualism : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure the strict implementation of the resolutions establishing language arrangements for both the official and the working languages of the Secretariat, and invites Member States to do likewise; recalls that the Secretariat is required, in its relations with Member States, to use the official or working language requested by those States; also requests the Secretary-General to ensure that personnel recruited by the different bodies of the Organization have a command of and use at least 1 of the working languages of the Secretariat or 1 of the working languages of another body of the Organization, in the case of staff members who are to work for that body and whose tenure of appointment does not exceed 2 years, and requests him to ensure that the use of another of the 6 official languages is duly encouraged and taken into account, particularly when promotions and incremental steps are under consideration, in order to ensure linguistic balance within the Organization; further requests the Secretary-General to ensure equality of the working languages of the Secretariat and of their use; stresses the need to ensure that the necessary resources are available to guarantee the proper and timely translation of documents into the different official languages of UN; recalls the need to ensure the simultaneous distribution of such documents in the official languages; also stresses the need to ensure adequate resources for maintaining the teaching of the official languages and the working languages of the Secretariat.

Adopted 100-35-29, 49th meeting

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Adopted at the 49th plenary meeting, 2 Nov. 1995.