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Takes note of the report of the Secretary- General58 submitted in pursuance of General Assembly resolution 33/204 and the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;50 2.
Notes with concern the finding of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination°0 that the information contained in the report of the Secretary-General is insufficient;
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Calls uponthe Secretary-General to exercise his judgement to identify without further delay marginally useful and ineffective activities and to report thereon to the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination at its twentieth session, including the criteria which have been used in the identification;
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Requeststhe Secretary-General to report also to the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination at its twentieth session on activities that have been completed, on the resources that have thereby been released and on the consequent effect on the programme budget;
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Requeststhe Secretary-General to propose to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session criteria and arrangements to promote the development of an efficient procedure for the identification of activities that
58 A/C.5/34/4 and Corr.I.
59 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 7A (A/34/7/Add.1-28), document A/34/7 I Add. I.
eo Ibid., Supplement No. 38 (A/34/38), para. 203. have been completed or are obsolete, of marginal usefulness or ineffective;
Further requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session, through the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, a full and comprehensive report on the implementation of Assembly resolution 3534
(XXX) and subsequent resolutions reaffirming it.
34 / 226.
Arabic language services
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Requeststhe Secretary-General to bring the Arabic language services up to a level equal with the services of the other official and working languages of the General Assembly and its Main Committees by adopting effective measures including:
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The immediate reinforcement of the Arabic Translation Service at United Nations Headquarters by a sufficient number of permanent posts to ensure the translation of all pre-session, in-session and post-session documentation of the General Assembly and its Main Committees within the specified time-limits and simultaneously with their issuance in the other official languages;
The establishment at Headquarters of an Arabic (b) interpretation unit with a sufficient number of permanent posts to provide interpretation services to the General Assembly and its Main Committees;
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Requeststhe Secretary-General to make the necessary arrangements for the full implementation of the present resolution and to submit a report thereon to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session.
61 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Fifth Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.79.11.D.14), part one, sect. A.
