Interpretation
Rule 25
1.
Statements made in an official language shall be interpreted into the other official
languages.
2.
Any speaker addressing the Committee in a language other than one of the official
languages shall normally provide for interpretation into one of the official languages.
Interpretation into the other official languages by interpreters of the Secretariat shall be based
upon the interpretation given in the first official language.
Language of documents
Rule 26
1.
All official documents of the Committee shall be issued in the official languages of the
United Nations.
2.
All formal decisions of the Committee shall be made available in the official languages
of the United Nations.
VII. RECORDS
Records
Rule 27
1.
The Secretary-General shall provide the Committee with summary records of its
proceedings, which shall be made available to the members.
2.
Summary records are subject to correction, to be submitted to the Secretariat by
participants in the meetings in the language in which the summary record is issued. Corrections
to the records of the meetings shall be consolidated in a single corrigendum to be issued after the
conclusion of the relevant session.
3.
The summary records of public meetings shall be documents for general distribution
unless in exceptional circumstances the Committee decides otherwise.
4.
Sound recordings of meetings of the Committee shall be made and kept in accordance
with the usual practice of the United Nations.
VIII. CONDUCT OF BUSINESS
Public and private meetings
Rule 28
1.
The meetings of the Committee and its subsidiary bodies shall be held in public unless
the Committee decides otherwise.
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