United Nations public information policies and activities

Requests the DPI to pay particular attention to progress in implementing the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration, and the outcomes of the major related United Nations summits and conferences in carrying out its activities; calls upon the DPI to continue to examine its policies and activities regarding the durable preservation of its radio, television and photographic archives, to take action, within existing resources, to ensure that such archives are preserved and are accessible and to report to the Committee on Information at its 30th session; also requests the DPI and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations to continue to cooperate in implementing an effective outreach programme to explain the policy of the Organization against sexual exploitation and abuse; requests the Secretary-General to continue to report to the Committee on Information at its successive sessions on the role of the DPI in UN peacekeeping operations; requests the Secretary-General to continue to work within the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination and other appropriate inter-agency bodies to establish a UN gateway, an inter-agency search facility in which all entities of the UN system should be encouraged to participate, and requests the Secretary-General to report to the Committee on Information at its successive sessions on the activities of the High-level Committee on Management in this regard.

Adopted without vote, 75th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (4th Committee) (A/62/407)]. Questions relating to information - A/RES/62/111A-B - 10 Jan. 2008 - p. 3-16.