Pattern of conferences : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2000
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SymbolA/RES/55/222
TitlePattern of conferences : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
AccessEnglish: A_RES_55_222-EN - PDF ; Español: A_RES_55_222-ES - PDF ; Français: A_RES_55_222-FR - PDF ; Other: A_RES_55_222-DE - PDF ; Русский: A_RES_55_222-RU - PDF ; العربية: A_RES_55_222-AR - PDF ; 中文: A_RES_55_222-ZH - PDF ;
Summary
Approves the draft revised calendar of conferences and meetings of the UN for 2001 (A/55/32); authorizes the Committee on Conferences to make adjustments to the calendar of conferences and meetings for 2001 that may become necessary as a result of actions and decisions taken by the General Assembly at its 55th session; decides to include all necessary resources in the budget for the biennium 2002-2003 to provide interpretation services for meetings of regional and other major groupings of Member States upon request by those groups, on an ad hoc basis, in accordance with established practice; decides that there should not be any exemption to the rule that documents must be distributed in all official languages; urges the Secretary-General to continue his efforts to implement the system of incentives to attract language staff to duty stations with high vacancy rates; urges the Secretary-General to fill expeditiously the 3 official posts in the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat relating to web sites in Arabic, Chinese and Russian; calls upon representatives of Member States to abide strictly by its decision 38/401, and strongly encourages all users of UN conference facilities to refrain from smoking in order to avoid exposing non-smokers to involuntary passive smoking.
Call number
A(01)/R3
Action note2000-12-23
Vote summary
Adopted without vote, 89th plenary meeting
DraftA/C.5/55/L.13
Committee reportA/55/702
Meeting record
A/55/PV.89
Agenda information
A/55/251 121 Pattern of conferences. CONFERENCE AND MEETING SERVICES
Date[New York] : UN, 12 Jan. 2001
Description
7 p.