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Publications and Documentation of the United Nations

A/RES/2247(XXI)No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

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)
  • 1971A/RES/2732(XXV)Publications and documentation of the United NationsLatestCompare with previous version
  • 1970A/RES/2538(XXIV)Publications and documentation of the United NationsCompare with previous version
  • 1967A/RES/2247(XXI)Publications and documentation of the United Nations

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 topics
Coordination Within UN SystemDocumentsDocuments DistributionDocuments LimitationPublicationsReport Preparation

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 1967.

  • 1967A/6675Publications and documentation of the United Nations report of the Secretary-General

iIdentified automatically from the metadata in each report’s UN Digital Library catalogue record.

What does this mandate say?

5 operative paragraphs
1
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:
a
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;
'
2
Requests the Secretary-General:
a
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.
•
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-
b
To report to the General Assembly at its twentygulations. second session ;

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