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; __________________ 10 11 18-21445 Resolution 69/16, annex. E/C.19/2018/8. 11/19

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