SPECIAL AREA ON GENERAL ASSEMBLY LAUNCHED TODAY ON UNITED NATIONS WEBSITE
Press Release
GA/9296
PI/1035
SPECIAL AREA ON GENERAL ASSEMBLY LAUNCHED TODAY ON UNITED NATIONS WEBSITE
19970916 The United Nations website now features a new addition with the launching today of a special area dedicated to the General Assembly. Available from 5 p.m. on this, the opening day of the fifty-second session, it incorporates a diverse array of information materials on the new session -- ranging from the composition, work programme and press releases for each of the Main Committees to its complete annotated preliminary agenda and information for delegations.Created by the Department of Public Information as a pilot project and available in both English and French, the section on the fifty-second session provides information on the Assembly's agenda and programme of work, its President, its General Committee and Credentials Committee, elections and appointments, and a press kit by the Department of Public Information (DPI). The annotated preliminary list of items to be included in the provisional agenda of the session is also being made available as a downloadable document in word-processing format for local printing. The Assembly's rules of procedure will also be available shortly.
Each Committee section incorporates information on that body's bureau, Chairman, working groups, agenda and programme of work, as well as press releases and, if available, summaries. The "Documents" section features links to UN-I-QUE - the "UN Information Quest" and to "Documents Alert" (both prepared by the Dag Hammarskjold Library), as well as to the daily list of documents and texts of most Assembly resolutions from its thirty-sixth session in 1981 to its fifty-first session, just ended.
The United Nations website is coordinated and maintained by the Department of Public Information with the technical support of the Information Technology Services Division. It receives nearly four million hits per month from as many as 114 countries around the world. The new area dedicated to the General Assembly is located at http://www.un.org/ga.
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