Encourages the Secretary-General to develop a policy for the further expansion of the optical disk system of UN including provisions for making it available on a fee-for-service basis to any interested party, on the understanding that access will continue to be provided free of charge to permanent and observer missions and other government offices of Member States, with a maximum of 10 access passwords for each Member States, as well as provisions for making it available to all staff of the Secretariat; and request to take into account the special needs of developing countries and other special groups of potential users; calls upon the Secretary-General to ensure that access to, and the flow of information from, the optical disk system for end-users, especially in capital cities, are both continuous and uninterrupted; requests the Secretary-General to continue work on providing access to the optical disk system in the 6 official languages of UN on an equal basis.

Adopted without vote, 107th meeting

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Adopted at the 107th plenary meeting, 15 Sept. 1997.