29th Session (30 April - 11 May 2007)
- Provisional agenda
- Reports
- General Debate: Statements
- Press Releases
Provisional agenda and annotations/programme of work
- Opening of the session
- Election of officers
- Adoption of the agenda and programme of work
- Statement by the Chairman
- Admission of new members
- Statement by the Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information
- General debate
- Consideration of reports submitted by the Secretary-General
- Open-ended working group of the Committee on Information
- Consideration and adoption of the report of the Committee to the General Assembly at its sixty-second session
Annotations/programme of work
30 April 2007
- Opening of the session
The session will be opened by the Chairman of the Committee on Information. - Election of officers
At its organizational session in 1980, the Committee on Information reached an agreement according to which the principal of geographical rotation would be applied to all officers of the Committee, who would be elected for two-year terms. At the beginning of the twenty-ninth session, the Committee will elect a Chairman, three Vice-Chairmen and a Rapporteur to serve for the next two years. - Adoption of the agenda and programme of work
The provisional agenda has been prepared on the basis of consultations among the members of the Bureau of the Committee on Information. - Statement by the Chairman
The Chairman will address the Committee at its opening meeting. - Admission of new members
The Committee will consider requests for membership in the Committee on Information. - Statement by the Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information
The Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information will address the Committee at its opening meeting to provide an update on the activities of the Department and report on the implementation of the recommendations contained in General Assembly resolutions 61/121 A and B of 14 December 2006.
30 April-2 May2007
- General debate
The following wording for the sub-items of the general debate is based on General Assembly resolution 34/182:- Promotion of the establishment of a new, more just and more effective world information and communications order intended to strengthen peace and international understanding and based on the free circulation and wider and better balanced dissemination of information;
- Continuation of the examination of United Nations public information policies and activities, in the light of the evolution of international relations and the need to establish the new international economic order and the new world information and communications order;
- Evaluation and follow-up of the efforts made and the progress achieved by the United Nations system in the field of information and communications.
- Consideration of reports submitted by the Secretary-General
- Documentation
- The network of United Nations information centres: activities and strategic directions - A/AC.198/2007/2 [PDF, 73KB]
- The United Nations website: progress towards parity among official languages, accessibility and content management - A/AC.198/2007/3 [PDF, 74KB]
- Activities of the Department of Public Information - A/AC.198/2007/4 [PDF, 176KB]
3-9 May 2007
- Open-ended working group of the Committee on Information
The Secretariat will require a 48-hour period to process the draft report of the Committee in all official languages.
3 May 2007: commemoration of World Press Freedom Day. The General Assembly, by its decision 48/432 of 20 December 1993, declared 3 May as World Press Freedom Day. The Department of Public Information will hold a panel discussion to commemorate this event. This is not considered to be an official meeting of the Committee on Information.
11 May 2007
- Consideration and adoption of the report of the Committee to the General Assembly at its sixty-second session
Press Releases
- INFORMATION COMMITTEE EMPHASIZES ESSENTIAL ROLE OF DPI IN ENSURING UNITED NATIONS VOICE HEARD CLEARLY, EFFECTIVELY, AS TWO-WEEK SESSION CONCLUDES (11 May 2007)
- PUBLIC INFORMATION DEPARTMENT COMMENDED FOR CLEAR, FOCUSED STRATEGY IN DELIVERING UN MESSAGE, AS INFORMATION COMMITTEE CONTINUES DEBATE (1 May 2007)
- NEW HEAD OF UN COMMUNICATIONS STRESSES STRATEGIC NATURE OF MEDIA CAMPAIGNS IN TELLING ORGANIZATION’S STORY, AS INFORMATION COMMITTEE OPENS SESSION (30 April 2007)
- STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS, ENHANCED USE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AMONG ISSUES AS INFORMATION COMMITTEE MEETS AT HEADQUARTERS (30 April- 11 May)