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62. Takes note with interest of the electronic mail-based news alert service
distributed worldwide by the Department of Public Information, and emphasizes
that extra care needs to be taken to ensure that news-breaking stories and news
alerts are accurate, impartial and free of any bias;
63. Encourages the Secretary-General, through the Department of Public
Information, to continue to take full advantage of recent developments in
information technology, including the Internet, in order to improve, in a costeffective manner, the expeditious dissemination of information on the United
Nations, in accordance with the priorities established by the General Assembly and
taking into account the linguistic diversity of the Organization;
64. Encourages an increase in the number of programmes of United Nations
Radio, in all available languages, on the United Nations web site;
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Final remarks
65. Recognizes the need for constructive interaction between the
management of the Department of Public Information and members of the
Committee on Information, and requests the Department to arrange, in consultation
with the Chairman, informal meetings with the members of the Committee every
three months to discuss the ongoing work of the Department, and in this regard
requests the Department, in preparation for these meetings, to invite members of the
Committee, no later than two weeks prior to their convening, to propose topics for
discussion;
66. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Committee on
Information at its twenty-fourth session and to the General Assembly at its fiftyseventh session on the activities of the Department of Public Information and on the
implementation of the recommendations contained in the present resolution;
67. Requests the Committee on Information to report to the General
Assembly at its fifty-seventh session;
68. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session
the item entitled “Questions relating to information”.
92nd plenary meeting
24 December 2001
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