Renews its appeal to Member States to exercise restraint in their requests for circulation of communications and urges the Secretary-General to take necessary measures to ensure that pre-session documents for meetings are distributed no less that 6 weeks before the meetings in all official languages; urges the substantive departments of the Secretariat to comply with the rule which requires them to submit pre-session documents to the Office of Conference Services at least 10 weeks before the beginning of sessions; requests the Secretary-General to review all of the factors involved in the timely issuance of pre-session documentation; requests the Secretariat to bring to the attention of all organs and the substantive offices concerned the relevant General Assembly resolutions, rules and regulations on control and limitation of documentation; welcomes the decision of the Committee on Conferences to review the criteria, status and guidelines on the provision of written meeting records; decides that, at its 49th session, there shall be a comprehensive review of, inter alia, the need for, usefulness and timely issuance of verbatim and summary records.

Adopted without vote, 93rd meeting

Adopted at the 93rd plenary meeting, 22 Dec. 1992.