Requests the following bodies to submit, in accordance with existing procedures, to the General Assembly at its 50th session, through the Committee on Conferences, justifications for the continuation of the current entitlement to meeting records: (a) UN Administrative Tribunal (when holding oral hearings); (b) Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space; (c) 1st Committee; (d) Special Committee of 24; (e) subsidiary organs of the General Assembly that meet on the occassion of international days of solidarity; (f) Executive Committee of the Programme of UNHCR; reiterates its request that the chairmen of the relevant organs and subsidiary bodies of the General Assembly, ECOSOC, its subsidiary bodies and other UN bodies should propose to Member States, at the beginning of each session, the adoption of time-limits for speakers; also decides to adopt the following measures for limiting documentation: (a) documents originating in the Secretariat should be clear and concise, generally not exceeding the established page-limits, except in cases where this is necessary in order to provide the information required by intergovernmental and expert bodies; (b) reports of subsidiary organs should be action-oriented and concise; (c) the Secretariat is requested to ensure that documentation is available, in each of the official languages of UN, in accordance with the 6 week rule for the distribution of documents; (d) the Secretariat is also requested, before a legislative mandate requesting documentation is adopted by the General Assembly, to indicate whether that documentation can be prepared in accordance with the 6 week rule.

Adopted without vote, 95th meeting

Adopted at the 95th plenary meeting, 23 Dec. 1995.
Annex: Entitlement to written meeting records.