Questions relating to information
A/RES/73/102 A-B
51. Recalls its resolutions 68/237 of 23 December 2013 and 69/16 of
18 November 2014 on the International Decade for People of African Descent, and
requests the Department of Public Information and its network of United Nations
information centres to continue raising awareness of and to disseminate information
on the International Decade, in accordance with the programme of activities for the
implementation of the International Decade adopted by the General Assembly, 10 in a
cost-neutral manner;
52. Also recalls its resolution 72/239 of 20 December 2017 on the United
Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028), and requests the Department of
Public Information and its network of United Nations information centres to raise
awareness of and to disseminate information on the International Decade;
53. Further recalls its resolution 71/178 of 19 December 2016 on the
proclamation of 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages to draw
attention to the critical loss of indigenous languages, and requests the Department of
Public Information and its network of United Nations information centres to raise
awareness of and disseminate information on the International Year in accordance
with its action plan; 11
54. Underlines the importance of the Department of Public Information
integrating multilingualism in the planning and implementation of promotional
campaigns, including the design of logotypes and isologotypes in different languages,
where appropriate, as well as the use of hashtags for social media campaigns in more
than one language, taking into account the needs of the target audiences;
55. Encourages the Department of Public Information to develop partnerships
with the private sector and relevant organizations that promote the official languages
of the United Nations and other languages, as appropriate, in order to promote the
activities of the United Nations in a cost-neutral manner, and to report thereon to the
Committee on Information at its forty-first session, and in this regard welcomes the
partnership with airlines that provide to their customers in-flight programmes
featuring United Nations activities;
Role of the Department of Public Information in United Nations peacekeeping
operations, special political missions and peacebuilding
56. Requests the Secretariat to continue to ensure the active involvement of
the Department of Public Information from the planning stage and in all stages of
future peacekeeping operations and special political missions through
interdepartmental consultations and coordination with other departments and offices
of the Secretariat, in particular with the Department of Peacek eeping Operations, the
Department of Field Support, the Department of Political Affairs and the
Peacebuilding Support Office;
57. Requests the Department of Public Information, the Department of
Peacekeeping Operations, the Department of Field Support, t he Department of
Political Affairs and the Peacebuilding Support Office to continue their cooperation
in raising awareness of the new realities, successes and challenges faced by
peacekeeping operations, especially multidimensional and complex ones, in
peacebuilding efforts and by special political missions, and continues to call upon
them to develop and implement a comprehensive communications strategy on current
challenges facing United Nations peacekeeping, countries on the agenda of the
Peacebuilding Commission and special political missions;
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Resolution 69/16, annex.
E/C.19/2018/8.
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