Africa: Aligning With Fourth Committee, General Assembly Adopts 28 Texts Across Sweeping Political, Decolonization Agenda, With Several Requiring Recorded Votes

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The General Assembly, acting on the recommendation of the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization), today adopted 25 resolutions -- 14 requiring recorded votes -- and four decisions on an array of subjects spanning information, decolonization, the Middle East, special political missions, atomic radiation, and outer space.

By the terms of a wide-ranging text on information, adopted without a vote, the Assembly underlined the responsibility of the Secretariat in mainstreaming multilingualism into all its communication and information activities, within existing resources and on an equitable basis. It also emphasized the importance of making use of all the official languages of the United Nations, ensuring their full and equitable treatment in all the activities of all divisions and offices of the Department of Public Information with the aim of eliminating disparity between the use of English and the use of the five other official languages.

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