28th Session (24 April - 5 May 2006)
Reports
Committee on Information
Programme of work
Reports of the Secretary-General to the Committee on Information
- Continued rationalization of the network of United Nations information centres - A/AC.198/2006/1 [
75 KB] - Modernization and integrated management of United Nations libraries: update on new strategic directions - A/AC.198/2006/2 [ 156 KB]
- The United Nations website: recent developments and progress towards parity among the official languages - A/AC.198/2006/3 [ 65 KB]
- Assessing the effectiveness of United Nations public information products and activities: the results of a three-year evaluation project - A/AC.198/2006/4 [ 123 KB], and Corrigendum - A/AC.198/2006/4/Corr.1 [ 23 KB]
- Activities of the Department of Public Information - A/AC.198/2006/5 [ 132 KB]
General Assembly - Questions relating to information
Documents
- Report on the twenty-eighth session of the Committee on Information - A/61/21 [ 142 KB]
- Report of the Secretary-General - A/61/216 [ 104 KB], and Corrigendum - A/61/216/Corr.1 [ 24 KB]
- Report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) - A/61/410 [ 89 KB]
Resolution
Statements
Opening statements at the twenty-eighth session of the Committee on Information on 24 April 2006
- Chairman of the Committee on Information
- Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information [As delivered in English and French]
Statements by Members of the Committee (in chronological and alphabetical order)
24 April 2006:
- Austria, on behalf of the European Union
- Bangladesh
- Guyana, on behalf of the Rio Group [also available in Spanish]
- South Africa, on behalf of the Group of 77 and China
25 April 2006:
- Algeria [French]
- Angola
- Argentina [Spanish]
- Cuba [also available in Spanish]
- Egypt [also available in Arabic - 219 KB]
- Iceland
- India
- Japan
- Nigeria
- People's Republic of China [Chinese, 246 KB]
- Philippines
- Republic of Korea
- Russian Federation [also available in Russian - 56 KB]
- Rwanda
- São Tome and Principe, on behalf of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries
- Syrian Arab Republic [Arabic - 59 KB]
26 April 2006:
- Angola
- Belarus [Russian - 149KB]
- Congo [French]
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- Indonesia
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- Israel
- Kenya
- Mongolia
- Pakistan
- Switzerland [also available in French]
Press Releases
- COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION FORWARDS DPI’S PROPOSED STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK TO COMMITTEE FOR PROGRAMME AND COORDINATION - 24 August 2006
- GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR ICT, DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCES MEMBERS OF STEERING COMMITTEE, STRATEGY COUNCIL - 14 June 2006
- COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION SAYS UN’S VOICE MUST BE CLEARLY HEARD, EMPHASIZES ESSENTIAL ROLE OF DPI AS FOCAL POINT FOR INFORMATION ACTIVITIES - 5 May 2006
- THREE-DAY INFORMATION COMMITTEE DEBATE PROVIDED DPI WITH CLEAR EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE, WHERE IMPROVEMENT NEEDED, SAYS UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL - 26 April 2006
- GOVERNMENTS URGE DPI TO PROMOTE AWARENESS OF UN’S NOTEWORTHY ACHIEVEMENTS, AS INFORMATION COMMITTEE CONTINUES GENERAL DEBATE - 25 April 2006
- DPI IS MODEL OF CHANGE IN ADOPTING MORE STRATEGIC APPROACH TO COMMUNICATIONS AND EVALUATION, INFORMATION COMMITTEE TOLD AT OPENING OF SESSION - 24 April 2006
- THREE-YEAR EVALUATION OF UN INFORMATION ACTIVITIES AMONG ISSUES AS INFORMATION COMMITTEE MEETS AT HEADQUARTERS, 24 APRIL-5 MAY - 21 April 2006