Publications and Documentation of the United Nations

A/RES/2247(XXI)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1967.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1967–1971

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/2732(XXV)

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1971	A/RES/2732(XXV)	Publications and documentation of the United Nations	343	9%Compare
1970	A/RES/2538(XXIV)	Publications and documentation of the United Nations	825	13%Compare
1967	A/RES/2247(XXI)	Publications and documentation of the United Nations	384	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports · 1967–1971

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
1971	A/8437	Publications and documentation of the United Nations report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/2732(XXV)
1967	A/6675	Publications and documentation of the United Nations report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/2247(XXI)

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Coordination Within UN System Documents Documents Distribution Documents Limitation Publications Report Preparation

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

Requests the Secretary-General, in accordance with the recommendations of the Ad Hoe Committee of Experts to Examine the Finances of the United Nations and the Specialized Agencies and of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, to instruct the Publications Board:

To review the present practice of preparation and publication of Official Records and Supplements. and Annexes of all organs of the United Nations, with the aim of determining whether any economy can be achieved;

( b) To review the publications programme in order to ascertain whether publications, studies and reports are prepared in accordance with pertinent resolutions of _the General Assembly. and other policy-making bodies, as well as to determme whether any publication may have lost its usefulness or become redundant ·

( c) To study the documentation of the Organiz;tion with a view to suggesting possible ways and means of achieving possible economy both in extent and cost;

( d) To harmonize the publication programme of the United Nations :Vith those ?f the specialized agencies and the Internat10nal Atomic Energy Agency with a view to eliminating possible duplication;

Requests the Secretary-General:

To submit to the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions at its summer 34 lbi_d., Twenty-first Session, Supplement No. 5 (A/6305). 35 Ibid., Supplement No. 7 (A/6307). 36 Ibid., Twenty-first Session, Annexes, agenda item 80 document A/6343.

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General A1111emhly-Twenty-fint Session session, on the basis of the above-mentioned studies by Social Council resolution 1090 E (XXXIX) of 31 the Publications Board, a preliminary report containing July 1965, that documents submitted to the United such suggestions and recommendations as may be ap- Nations organs should be available to the Member propriate for the elimination, consolidation or reduction States in sufficient time and simultaneously in the in frequency of various publications ;

working languages envisaged by various internal re-

To report to the General Assembly at its twentygulations. second session ;

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