Consideration of the establishment within the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia of a United Nations Arabic language centre

Calls upon the secretariat of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia to consider the establishment of a UN Arabic language centre, based at the Commission, of which the objective, in cooperation with the Secretariat of the UN, and taking into consideration the requisite technical, financial and administrative needs, shall be to raise the technical and linguistic level of the Arabic terminology used in UN documents, in order to facilitate the use of the Arabic language in such documents; requests the Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia to follow up implementation of this resolution and to submit a report on the progress achieved in that regard to the Commission at its 23rd session.

Adopted without vote, 41st plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 2003, New York, 15, 28, 30 and 31 Jan. 2003; resumed organizational session for 2003, New York, 5 and 25 March, 29 April, 1 and 27 May and 24 June 2002; substantive session of 2003, Geneva, 30 June-25 July 2003; resumed substantive session of 2003, New York, 22 Aug., 31 Oct. and 19 Dec. 2003 - E/2003/99 - p. 31 - (ESCOR, 2003, Suppl. no. 1).