Questions relating to information
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60. Invites the United Nations system, especially the Department of Public
Information, to continue to encourage and facilitate dialogue among civilizati ons and
to formulate ways and means to promote dialogue among civilizations in the activities
of the United Nations in various fields, taking into account the Programme of Action
of the Global Agenda for Dialogue among Civilizations, 13 and in this regard reiterates
its request to the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventysecond session the report requested by the Assembly in its resolution 60/4 of
20 October 2005;
61. Recalls its resolution 64/14 of 10 November 2009, in which it
acknowledged the achievements of the Alliance of Civilizations and the efforts of the
High Representative of the Secretary-General for the Alliance of Civilizations, and
welcomes the discussion, at the sixth Alliance of Civilizations Forum, held in Nusa
Dua, Bali, Indonesia, on 29 and 30 August 2014, on strategic and practical measures
that generate and sustain common values and a shared sense of responsibility am ong
all stakeholders, and the continuing support of the Department of Public Information
for the work of the Alliance of Civilizations, including its ongoing projects;
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News services
62. Stresses that the central objective of the news services implemented by the
Department of Public Information is the timely delivery of accurate, objective and
balanced news and information emanating from the United Nations system in all mass
media, including print, radio, television and the Internet, including social media
platforms, to the media and other audiences worldwide, with the overall emphasis on
multilingualism from the planning stage, and reiterates its request to the Department
to ensure that all breaking news stories and news alerts are accurate, impartial and
free of bias;
63. Recognizes the important role of television and video services provided by
the Department of Public Information, and notes the recent efforts in making available
online broadcast-quality video that can be streamed or downloaded by smaller
broadcast outlets that do not have access to satellite feeds;
Traditional means of communication
64. Welcomes the sustained efforts of United Nations Radio, which remains
one of the most effective and far-reaching traditional media available to the
Department of Public Information and an important instrument in United Nations
activities, to enhance the timeliness, presentation and thematic focus of its
multilingual programmes on United Nations activities and to ensure the widest
possible dissemination of its programming to media outlets using the most suitable
platforms and formats, pre-recorded or live, requests the Secretary-General to
continue to make every effort to achieve parity in the six official languages in United
Nations Radio productions, reiterates the important role of the 1 5-minute daily
programmes created pursuant to General Assembly resolution 54/82 B of 6 December
1999, and requests the Department to continue producing and disseminating the
programmes, in accordance with client needs;
65. Also welcomes the ongoing efforts being made by the Department of
Public Information to disseminate programmes directly to broadcasting stations all
over the world in the six official languages, with the addition of Portuguese and
Kiswahili as well as other languages where possible, and in this regard requests the
Secretary-General to include in his upcoming report to the Committee on Information
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