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At its l09th plenary meeting, on 23 July 2002, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to make, as needed and within existing resources, reasonable efforts to facilitate the participation of persons with disabilities in the meetings and deliberations of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities. Such efforts could include but were not limited to:
- The facilitation of entry into United Nations premises by individuals serving as guides, personal assistants or interpreters for persons with disabilities;
- The holding of meetings in those United Nations conference rooms that were better equipped to facilitate the participation of persons with mobility-related and other physical disabilities;
- The adoption of a practice whereby documents distributed in the course of one meeting or shortly in advance of a meeting would not be discussed before the next scheduled meeting, thereby affording persons with visual disabilities sufficient time to convert those documents into a format readable by them;
- The adoption, to the extent necessary and possible, of measures to enable persons with hearing disabilities to participate in the deliberations of the Ad Hoc Committee./1
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