Approves the draft biennial calendar of conferences and meetings of the UN for 2004-2005, as submitted by the Committee on Conferences (A/58/32); authorizes the Committee on Conferences to make any adjustments to the calendar of conferences and meetings for 2004-2005 that may become necessary as a result of actions and decisions taken by the General Assembly at its 58th session; requests the Secretary-General to continue to include in future reports the utilization rates of interpretation services and conference facilities at all duty stations; requests the Secretary-General to conduct a thorough cost-benefit study of summary records and to review the list of bodies entitled to them; also requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the ongoing and planned work on workload standards and performance measurement specifically develops quantitative methods and indicators to assess productivity, efficiency and cost-effectiveness and to do so also for the quality of services; requests that all documents submitted to legislative organs by the Secretariat, intergovernmental and expert bodies for consideration and action have conclusions and recommendations in bold print.

Adopted without vote, 79th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 58th sess., Suppl. no. 49.