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3. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide the Division with the necessary resources
and to ensure that it continues to carry out its programme of work as detailed in the relevant earlier
resolutions, in consultation with the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian
People and under its guidance, including, in particular, the organization of meetings in various regions
with the participation of all sectors of the international community, the further development and expansion
of the documents collection of the United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine, the
preparation and widest possible dissemination of publications and information materials on various aspects
of the question of Palestine, the provision of assistance in completing the project on the modernization
of the records of the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, and the provision of the
annual training programme for staff of the Palestinian Authority;
4. Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure the continued cooperation of the Department of
Public Information and other units of the Secretariat in enabling the Division to perform its tasks and in
covering adequately the various aspects of the question of Palestine;
5. Invites all Governments and organizations to extend their cooperation to the Committee and the
Division in the performance of their tasks;
6. Notes with appreciation the action taken by Member States to observe annually on 29 November
the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, requests them to continue to give the
widest possible publicity to the observance, and requests the Committee and the Division to continue to
organize, as part of the observance of the Day of Solidarity, an annual exhibit on Palestinian rights in
cooperation with the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations.
76th plenary meeting
2 December 1998