Each official UN document has a unique symbol at the top right of the document or on the cover page. For example, UN Women’s founding resolution has the document symbol A/RES/64/289.
In this example, the first component of the document symbol indicates the UN organ to which the document was submitted or the organ that issued the document; in this case, the “A” refers to “General Assembly”. The second component often refers to the type of document; in this case, “RES” means “resolution”. The third component is the number of the session where the document was adopted; in this case, “64” means the “64th session of the General Assembly”. And the last element is the number assigned to the document.
All official UN documents are available on the United Nations Documents website using simplified “quick link” URLs that use the document symbol, of the form:
https://undocs.org/document-symbol
For example, UN Women’s founding resolution can be accessed at:
https://undocs.org/A/RES/64/289
That URL takes you to a page where all available UN languages are listed:
You can also add an ISO 639-1 language code to the URL (between the domain name and the document symbol) to provide direct access to a specific-language version of a document. For example:
Arabic (ar): https://undocs.org/ar/A/RES/64/289
English (en): https://undocs.org/en/A/RES/64/289
Spanish (es): https://undocs.org/es/A/RES/64/289
French (fr): https://undocs.org/fr/A/RES/64/289
Russian (ru): https://undocs.org/ru/A/RES/64/289
Chinese (zh): https://undocs.org/zh/A/RES/64/289
Once you have the desired URL for the document you want to link to, you can create a link on a web page by inserting the URL into the <a href> element in your HTML code. For example, if you want to link to the English version of the UN Women founding resolution, you would use the following HTML code:
<a href="https://undocs.org/en/A/RES/64/289">UN Women founding resolution (A/RES/64/289, English)</a>
This code results in the following linked text:
UN Women founding resolution (A/RES/64/289, English)
However, in general, we recommend linking to the URL without the language code, so that users have the option to choose which language version they want to open:
<a href="https://undocs.org/A/RES/64/289">UN Women founding resolution (A/RES/64/289)</a>
This code results in the following linked text:
UN Women founding resolution (A/RES/64/289)
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