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Following is the text of UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ video message to the Internet Governance Forum, in Geneva today:

The Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organizations Association Committee today associated 21 non‑governmental organizations with the United Nations Department of Public Information.  One non‑governmental organization was also disassociated at the committee meeting.  That brings the number of non‑governmental organizations working with the Department in the area of communications and outreach to 1,485.

Following are UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ remarks at the Web Summit, in Lisbon, Portugal, today:

The United Nations and Mattel, Inc., today announced at MIPJunior in Cannes, France, details of their collaboration to incorporate a number of the Sustainable Development Goals into the storylines of the animated children’s television series Thomas & Friends™.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the International Telecommunication Union’s World Telecommunication Development Conference, in Buenos Aires today:

VIENNA, 6 October — The International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East concluded today, with two panel discussions exploring themes of bias, objectivity, truth and the role of both social and traditional media in covering the issues that mattered most to Palestinians and Israelis.

VIENNA, 5 October — The 2017 International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East opened in Vienna today, with journalists, diplomats, academics and civil society representatives sharing views on the status of peace efforts, ways to end the occupation — now in its fiftieth year — and media narratives about the Israel-Palestine conflict.

NEW YORK, 27 September (Office of Information and Communications Technology) — The United Nations announced today that the Office of Information and Communications Technology supported Germany on the set‑up of the new Financial Intelligence Unit under the Central Customs Authority in Cologne, dedicated for receiving, collecting and evaluating reports of suspicious financial transactions that might be related to money‑laundering or terrorist financing.

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message to the meeting of the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, to be held in New York on 17 September:

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Radhia Achouri of Tunisia as Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Cairo, covering Egypt and Saudi Arabia.