put in blue

put in blue
 v.— «We think there is an opportunity to utilise modern technology with email and fax to advise all member states of the UN, at a designated point of contact, when texts of resolutions are put in “blue.”» —“Statement to the General Assembly Working Group on the Security Council” by Colin Keating Global Policy Forum June 5, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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