FIFTH COMMITTEE CONSIDERS SIX REPORTS BY OFFICE OF INTERNAL OVERSIGHT, INCLUDING ISSUE OF REFUGEE SMUGGLING AT NAIROBI OFFICE

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

41^st and 42^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

FIFTH COMMITTEE CONSIDERS SIX REPORTS BY OFFICE OF INTERNAL OVERSIGHT,

INCLUDING ISSUE OF REFUGEE SMUGGLING AT NAIROBI OFFICE

CORRECTION

On pages 16 and 17 of Press Release GA/AB/3493 of 4 March, the statement by DPI Public Affairs Division Director Therese Gastaut should read as follows:

THERESE GASTAUT, Director of the DPI Public Affairs Division, said that the Joint United Nations Information Committee was a subsidiary body of the Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC), which brought together all information directors of the United Nations system to coordinate public information policies.  With the reform of the ACC, its subsidiary bodies had been abolished last October, and new arrangements were subsequently created which were expected to be more flexible and efficient.  The United Nations Communications Group had developed into the main mechanism for coordination on communication issues.  More information on the matter would be available in an upcoming report of the Secretary-General to be circulated before the next session of the Committee on Information to be held 22 April to 2 May.

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