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that the programme is contributing effectively to an atmosphere conducive to
dialogue and supportive of the peace process;
3.
Requests the Department, in full cooperation and coordination with the
Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, to
continue, with the necessary flexibility as may be required by developments
affecting the question of Palestine, its special information programme for the
biennium 2002–2003, in particular:
(a) To disseminate information on all the activities of the United Nations
system relating to the question of Palestine, including reports on the work carried
out by the relevant United Nations organizations;
(b) To continue to issue and update publications on the various aspects of the
question of Palestine in all fields, including materials concerning the recent
developments in that regard, in particular the prospects for peace;
(c) To expand its collection of audiovisual material on the question of
Palestine and to continue the production and preservation of such material, and the
updating of the exhibit in the Secretariat;
(d) To organize and promote fact-finding news missions for journalists to the
area, including the territory under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority and
the Occupied Territory;
(e) To organize international, regional and national seminars or encounters
for journalists, aiming in particular at sensitizing public opinion to the question of
Palestine;
(f) To continue to provide assistance to the Palestinian people in the field of
media development, in particular to strengthen the training programme for
Palestinian broadcasters and journalists initiated in 1995.
72nd plenary meeting
3 December 2001
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