A/RES/57/130 A-B
United Nations
Distr.: General
25 February 2003
General Assembly
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 79
Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/57/523)]
57/130. Questions relating to information
A
I NFORMATION IN THE SERVICE OF HUMANITY
The General Assembly,
Taking note of the comprehensive and important report of the Committee on
Information, 1
Also taking note of the report of the Secretary-General on questions relating to
information, 2
Urges all countries, organizations of the United Nations system as a whole and
all others concerned, reaffirming their commitment to the principles of the Charter
of the United Nations and to the principles of freedom of the press and freedom of
information, as well as to those of the independence, pluralism and diversity of the
media, deeply concerned by the disparities existing between developed and
developing countries and the consequences of every kind arising from those
disparities that affect the capability of the public, private or other media and
individuals in developing countries to disseminate information and communicate
their views and their cultural and ethical values through endogenous cultural
production, as well as to ensure the diversity of sources and their free access to
information, and recognizing the call in this context for what in the United Nations
and at various international forums has been termed “a new world information and
communication order, seen as an evolving and continuous process”:
(a) To cooperate and interact with a view to reducing existing disparities in
information flows at all levels by increasing assistance for the development of
communication infrastructures and capabilities in developing countries, with due
regard for their needs and the priorities attached to such areas by those countries,
and in order to enable them and the public, private or other media in developing
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 21 (A/57/21).
A/57/157.