Endorses the findings and conclusions of the comprehensive study on conference services, subject to the provisions of the present resolution; welcomes the efforts made by the Secretary-General to improve conference services, and urges the Secretariat to continue exploring ways and means of providing conference services in a manner that fully responds to the needs of intergovernmental and expert bodies, while ensuring the criteria of quality and timeliness; requests the Secretary-General, within the context of the prososed programme budget for the biennium 1996-1997, to take into account the possible negative effects, if any, of the elimination of 19 posts in the Office of Conference and Support Services; also requests the Secretary-General, in particular, to take into account the requirements for conference services arising from the increased workload of the Security Council and, consequently, of the 5th Committee and the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions; further requests the Secretary-General to include more transparent performance indicators, better cost information on meetings and documentation and a detailed analysis of real demand for conference services; requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly recommendations on language training to be included in the programme budget proposals for the biennium 1996-1997, for the purpose of keeping interpreters and translators current with the latest developments in the 6 official languages of UN.

Adopted without vote, 95th meeting

Adopted at the 95th plenary meeting, 23 Dec. 1995.