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the Government of Angola, to accelerate the establishment of the information centre
and report on the operationalization of the centre to the Committee on Information at
its forty-first session;
43. Takes note with appreciation of the offer made by the Government of the
Republic of Korea to host a United Nations information centre, and, noting the report
by the Secretary-General to the Committee on Information on the feasibility of the
acceptance of such an offer in a cost-effective manner, requests the Department of
Public Information to continue its consultation with the Government of the Republic
of Korea in this regard;
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Strategic communications services
44. Reaffirms the role of the strategic communications services in devising
and disseminating United Nations messages by developing communications
strategies, with the overall emphasis on multilingualism from the planning stage, in
close collaboration with the substantive departments, United Nations funds and
programmes and the specialized agencies, in full compliance with their legislative
mandates;
Promotional campaigns
45. Notes with appreciation the work of the Department of Public Information
in promoting, through its campaigns, issues of importance to the international
community, and requests the Department, in cooperation with the countries concerned
and with the relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, to
continue to take appropriate measures to enhance world public awareness on, inter
alia, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 7 United Nations reform, the
eradication of poverty, sustainable urban development, conservation and sustainable
use of the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development, climate
change, conflict prevention, peacekeeping, sustaining peace, peacebuilding, refugees
and migrants, people forcibly displaced by conflict and other means that violate
human rights and international law, culture and development, disarmament,
decolonization, human rights, including gender equality, the rights of children,
persons with disabilities and migrant workers, strategic coordination in humanitarian
relief, especially in natural disasters and other crises, commu nicable and
non-communicable diseases, the needs of the African continent, the nature of the
critical economic and social situation in Africa and the priorities of the New
Partnership for Africa’s Development, 8 the special needs of the least developed
countries, landlocked developing countries, small island developing States and the
countries that have met the criteria for graduation from the least developed country
category, the importance of international cooperation to combat illicit financial flows
and the activities that underlie them, such as corruption, embezzlement, fraud, tax
evasion, safe havens that create incentives for the transfer abroad of stolen assets,
money-laundering and illegal exploitation of natural resources, the identification,
freezing and recovery of stolen assets and their return to their countries of origin in a
manner consistent with the United Nations Convention against Corruption, 9 survivors
of human trafficking, survivors of modern slavery, combating transnational illicit
trafficking, including in cultural heritage, the permanent memorial to the victims of
slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, combating terrorism in all its forms and
manifestations, the initiative on a world against violence and violent extremism,
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