23rd Session of the Committee on Information
30 April to 11 May 2001
Documents of the Session
Agenda
Reports of the Secretary-General to the Committee on Information
- Reorientation of United Nations activities in the field of public information and communications (A/AC.198/2001/2)
- Public information activities for United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations (2001) (A/AC.198/2001/3)
- Integration of United Nations information centres with field offices of the United Nations Development Programme: implementation of the views of host Governments (A/AC.198/2001/4)
- Equitable disbursement of resources to United Nations information centres (A/AC.198/2001/5)
- Cooperation between the Department of Public Information and the University for Peace in Costa Rica (A/AC.198/2001/6)
- Progress report on the implementation of the pilot project on the development of an international radio broadcasting capacity for the United Nations (A/AC.198/2001/7)
- Continued multilingual development, maintenance and enrichment of the United Nations web site (A/AC.198/2001/8)
- Activities of the Joint United Nations Information Committee in 2000 (A/AC.198/2001/9)
- Final report on the implementation of the pilot project on the development of an international radio broadcasting capacity for the United Nations (A/AC.198/2001/10)
General Assembly - Questions relating to information
- Report on the 23rd session of the Committee on Information (A/56/21) + addendum (A/56/21/Add.1(Supp))
- Questions relating to information (A/RES/56/64)
General Debate
The statements made at the General Debate of the 23rd Session are presented by date and in alphabetical order.
30 April 2001
2 May 2001
3 May 2001
Meetings coverage
- Committee on Information approves draft resolution which will expand UN radio’s capacity, as it concludes resumed twenty-third session (7 September 2001)
- Committee on Information discusses Secretary-General’s report on implementation of pilot UN radio project (5 September 2001)
- Need for parity among all official UN languages stressed, as Committee on Information concludes session (11 May 2001)
- Need for language parity stressed, as Committee on Information discusses enhancement of UN web site (4 May 2001)
- UN embraces new information technology, but use of traditional mediums has not diminished, Committee on Information told (3 May 2001)
- Widespread support expressed in Committee on Information for UN pilot project for international radio broadcasting (2 May 2001)
- Bridging digital divide between industrialized and developing countries stressed in Committee on Information debate (1 May 2001)
- Milos Alcalay elected as Chairman of Committee on Information (30 April 2001)
- UN information department should be proud of achievements in face of limited resources, Committee on Information told at opening meeting (30 April 2001)
- Focusing on DPI role in furthering Millennium Declaration Goals, Committee on Information to meet at Headquarters 30 April - 11 May (27 April 2001)