A/RES/53/59 Page 8 42. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Committee on Information at its twenty-first session, in 1999, and to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session, in 1999, on the activities of the Department of Public Information and on the implementation of the recommendations contained in the present resolution; 43. Decides that, starting from the twenty-first session of the Committee on Information, preparation of the report of the Committee shall be carried out by an open-ended working group; 44. Requests the Committee on Information to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session; 45. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the item entitled “Questions relating to information”. 78th plenary meeting 3 December 1998