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The United Nations links to official documents and its digital library, including resolutions, speeches, voting information and publications. Keep symbol, organ, date and language for citations. A press summary and a resolution have different scopes.
- Identification
- Symbol, organ, date and language.
- Library
- Documents, votes, speeches and publications.
- Languages and symbols
- All language versions of a document share its symbol. Keep the symbol alongside the language and date of the version you actually read.
Source: UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library — Document symbols · consulted on - What the symbol means
- Symbols combine letters and numbers; some elements are meaningful and others are not. A symbol generally does not indicate the subject: open the title and text.
Source: UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library — Document symbols · consulted on
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Keep its symbol and responsible organ, then open the full document.
Initial profile documentation
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