Questions relating to information
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Department of Public Information to provide a briefing in this regard, before the next
session of the Committee on Information;
105. Notes the initiative taken by the Department of Public Information, in
cooperation with the Department of Safety and Security and the Protocol and Liaison
Service of the Secretariat, during the annual general debate of the General Assembly,
to issue special identification stickers to mission-designated personnel of Member
States to enable them to escort media covering the visits of high -level officials to
restricted areas, and strongly urges the Secretary-General to continue to improve this
practice by acceding to the request by Member States to provide the needed number
of additional passes to press and other relevant officers of Member States to allow
their access to all areas that are deemed restricted, in order to effectively and
comprehensively report on high-level meetings that include officials of delegations
of Member States;
106. Requests the Committee on Information to report to the General Assembly
at its seventy-third session;
107. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-third session
the item entitled “Questions relating to information”.
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7 December 2017
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