Examples of using Unedited transcripts in English and their translations into Russian
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Unedited transcripts would thus appear to be the most cost-effective of the three records.
Digital records are proposed to complement the one-language written summary records or unedited transcripts.
Unedited transcripts would thus appear to be the most cost-effective of the three type of record.
It was felt that it would be useful to have a thorough cost analysis of written meeting records and of unedited transcripts.
I therefore request the Secretariat to issue the unedited transcripts of the eighth meeting of the Committee, which will be convened on Friday, 18 October, at 3 p.m.
It was felt that it would be useful to have a thorough cost analysis of written meeting records and of unedited transcripts.
The view was also expressed that unedited transcripts, which were still being used on an experimental basis in Vienna, were of doubtful benefit.
The Committee will continue to keep the General Assembly informed, through the Committee on Conferences, of its experience regarding unedited transcripts.
The view was also expressed that unedited transcripts, which were still being used on an experimental basis at Vienna, were of doubtful benefit.
It had also taken note of the decision by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to accept unedited transcripts of its sessions, a decision that would be reviewed in due course.
The view was also expressed that unedited transcripts, which were still being used on an experimental basis at Vienna, were of doubtful benefit.
The Committee had also reviewed its need for verbatim records and decided that,with effect from its following session, it would use unedited transcripts instead of verbatim records.
While the experience of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in substituting unedited transcripts for summary records seemed interesting in principle, it would be useful to receive confirmation of the results from the members of the Committee themselves.
Note was taken with appreciation of the positive results of the experiment carried out by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to use unedited transcripts instead of verbatim records.
Mr. Karbuczky(Chief, UNOV Conference Management Service)said that unedited transcripts might well be less than half as expensive as summary records.
It was noted that the General Assembly,in resolution 50/206 B of 23 December 1995, had requested the Committee to keep it informed, through the Committee on Conferences, of the experience of that body regarding unedited transcripts.
She noted that only four of the bodies entitled to written meeting records which had used unedited transcripts had reported to the Committee on Conferences on their experience A/52/32, para. 94.
Mr. AZUMA(Japan) recalled that the Subcommittee had been requested by the General Assembly, in resolution 50/27, to review its requirement for summary records andsee whether it might be possible to utilize unedited transcripts at subsequent sessions.
His delegation welcomed the results of the experiment in using unedited transcripts in lieu of verbatim and/or summary records, for unedited transcripts could provide the necessary information without delay, thereby enhancing their usefulness.
Following the successful experience of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space,other bodies should be invited to participate in the experiment of using unedited transcripts in place of verbatim records of their meetings.
Ms. KATO(Japan) said that the question of using unedited transcripts had been raised in the Committee on Conferences in New York, where the Secretariat had been unable to comment on the implications of the change because of its lack of experience in the matter.
In the area of working methods,the Committee had also contributed to the Organization's cost-saving efforts by utilizing verbatim unedited transcripts in lieu of verbatim records of the Committee and summary records of the Legal Subcommittee.
Written meeting records:provision of unedited transcripts for the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in lieu of verbatim records; provision of summary records for the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law and UNIDO.
In 1997, however, the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space(COPUOS) had waived its entitlement to summary records andhad started to receive instead unedited transcripts of its meetings in the six official languages of the United Nations.
As to part V of the report, the view was expressed that, while unedited transcripts were not an ideal solution, they could be issued and corrected more speedily than verbatim and summary records and appeared to be a satisfactory cost-efficiency measure.
In this connection, I would like to propose to the Committee that the eighth meeting of the First Committee, which will be held on Friday, 18 October, at 3 p.m., be selected for the suggested experimental purposes in order toallow the Secretariat to issue the unedited transcripts of that meeting for comparison.
Mr. Lin Kuo-Chung(Secretary of the Committee):With regard to the question raised by the representative of Cuba regarding unedited transcripts, I would like to say that this issue concerns a kind of comparison between the unedited transcript records and the official verbatim records.
It was agreed that, in 2015, the Legal Subcommittee at its fifty-fourth session and the Committee at its fifty-eighth session would evaluate the use of digital recordings and decide whether to develop the application further orreturn to using unedited transcripts.
The Committee on Conferences also requested its Chairman to invite those bodies to consider the possibility of requesting the Secretariat to issue unedited transcripts of one meeting for comparison purposes with a view to the possible substitution of such transcripts for their usual records in the future.
The European Union supported the recommendations contained in paragraphs 72 to 74 of the report and welcomed the decisions taken by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries andPeoples to replace their verbatim records by, respectively, unedited transcripts and summary records.