§ Lord Aveburyasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will obtain from the United Nations Secretary-General's office an explanation of the reasons why the reports of the Secretary-General have only been entered on the web page gopher.//gopher.undp.org/11/undocs/scd/sgrep as far as S/1996/164 of 4th March 1996, and whether they will obtain an indication of when this page will be brought up to date, and place the answers in the Libraries of both Houses of Parliament.
§ Baroness Chalker of WallaseyThe United Nations is posting only some documents of general interest on the public access area of its Internet home page.
Since 1 November 1996, it has been possible, using a password, to access the complete official records of the United Nations through the Internet connection to the United Nations Optical Disk System. Although access to the service is still restricted to permanent missions and governments of member states, public access is expected to follow around spring 1997.