Documents of the Session

Agenda

• Provisional agenda (A/AC.198/2002/1) + revision (A/AC.198/2002/1/Rev.1)

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.198/2002/2)
• United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations (2001) (A/AC.198/2002/3)
• Integration of United Nations information centres with field offices of the United Nations Development Programme: continued implementation of the views of host Governments (A/AC.198/2002/4)
• Substantive questions: role of the Department of Public Information in United Nations peacekeeping (A/AC.198/2002/5)
• Continued development, maintenance and enrichment of the United Nations web site in the six official languages (A/AC.198/2002/6)
• Activities of the Joint United Nations Information Committee in 2001 (A/AC.198/2002/7)

General Assembly - Questions relating to information

• Report on the twenty-fourth session of the Committee on Information (A/57/21)
• Questions relating to information (A/RES/57/130 A-B) 

General Debate

The statements made at the General Debate of the 24th Session are presented by date and in alphabetical order.

Meetings coverage

• Committee on Information calls for ‘wide-ranging, innovative proposals’ by Secretary-General (2 May 2002)
• Committee on Information discusses UN web site language parity, information support for peacekeeping operations (24 April 2002)
• UN must play greater role in bridging ‘digital divide’, Committee on Information told as debate continues (23 April 2002)
• Speakers in information committee debate roles of department, external media in promoting UN concerns (23 April 2002)
• Hard choices, decisions must be made to achieve greater effectiveness, DPI head tells Committee on Information (22 April 2002)
• Reorientation of Department of Public Information focus, as Committee on Information meets 22 April – 2 May (19 April 2002)