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Questions relating to information
the Transatlantic Slave Trade, on 25 March, World Cities Day, on 31 October, World
Oceans Day, on 8 June, International Mountain Day, on 11 December, Micro-, Small
and Medium-sized Enterprises Day, on 27 June, Sustainable Gastronomy Day, on
18 June, the International Day for Tolerance, on 16 November, the International Day
of Happiness, on 20 March, the International Day of Non-Violence, on 2 October,
International Youth Day, on 12 August, the International Day of Peace, on
21 September, World Press Freedom Day, on 3 May, the Time of Remembrance and
Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives During the Second World War, on
8 and 9 May, the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of
the Holocaust, on 27 January, the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual
Violence in Conflict, on 19 June, Nelson Mandela International Day, on 18 July, the
International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, on 2 6 September,
the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, on 2 9 November, the
International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of
Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime, on 9 December, and Human Rights
Day, on 10 December, and to play a role in raising awareness and promoting these
events in a cost-neutral manner, where appropriate, in accordance with the respective
General Assembly resolutions;
45. Requests the Department of Public Information and its network of United
Nations information centres to raise broad awareness and to engage in a
comprehensive and multilingual promotional campaign and coverage, on an equal
basis, of all summits, international conferences and high-level meetings mandated by
the General Assembly, including those to be held in 2017;
46. Recognizes the communication efforts led by the Department of Public
Information in promoting the review conferences of the parties to the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and their preparatory proces ses, as well as
before, during and after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, in particular the production of various multimedia materials, including
videos, images and graphics, to promote the summit and the issues before it in the six
official languages of the Organization, and in this regard encourages the Department
to continue this practice in promoting high-level meetings, including through the use
of traditional and new media such as social media, as appropriate;
47. Also recognizes the efforts of the Department of Public Information in
communicating about and promoting the signing ceremony for the Paris Agreement, 10
held in New York on 22 April 2016, and the twenty-second session of the Conference
of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and
the twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the
Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, held in Marrakech, Morocco, from 7 to 1 8 November
2016, and in this regard encourages the Department to engage in a comprehensive
promotional campaign in preparation for the next Conference of the Parties, to be
held in Bonn, Germany, and to be chaired by Fiji;
48. Further recognizes the communication efforts led by the Department of
Public Information in promoting the United Nations Conference on Housing and
Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) and its preparatory process, in
particular by sending a multilingual team to ensure its coverage and organizing a
workshop on the New Urban Agenda 11 for indigenous communities, as well as the
production of material suitable for local governments and relevant stakeholders;
49. Requests the Department of Public Information and its network of United
Nations information centres to continue raising a wareness of and to disseminate
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See FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21, annex.
Resolution 71/256, annex.
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