United Nations Cartographic Conference for Asia and Pacific CONCLUDES IN Okinawa

(Delayed in transmission.)

DPI/UNITAR WORKSHOP ON WEB SITE DEVELOPMENT, UN INTERNET RESOURCES

TO BE HELD 7 - 11 JULY, FOR MEMBERS OF PERMANENT MISSIONS

DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL OF WIRELESS INTERNET TECHNOLOGY

EXPLORED AT HEADQUARTERS CONFERENCE

SEMINAR ON POLICY AWARENESS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 27 JUNE

The ongoing series of Seminars on Policy Awareness and Training in Information Technology will continue on Friday, 27 June 2003, at 10 a.m., in the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Chamber, with the fifth module on “Policy Awareness and Security Issues on Information Technology”.

UNITED NATIONS VIDEO TEAM WINS ‘BEST POLITICAL STORY’ AWARD

LIBRARY IN GEORGIA DESIGNATED AS UNITED NATIONSDEPOSITORY LIBRARY

NEW YORK, 27 May (UN Department of Public Information) -- The Georgian Intergovernmental Library, located in Tbilisi, has been designated a United Nations depository library, becoming part of an international network of 405 libraries in 146 countries and territories that brings United Nations documents and publications to users around the world. 

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC INFORMATION

ADDRESSES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE

SAN DIEGO, 25 May -- Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information of the United Nations, gave a keynote address at the fifty-third Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA):  "Communication in Borderlands" on Sunday, 25 May.

Committee on Information

Twenty-fifth Session

7^th Meeting (PM)                               

UN INDISPENSABLE FOUNDATION FOR PEACE; MUST HAVE CLEAR, EFFECTIVE VOICE,

REAFFIRMS INFORMATION COMMITTEE IN COMPREHENSIVE DRAFT TEXT

UNTV’S CURRENT AFFAIRS TALK-SHOW ‘WORLD CHRONICLE’ MARKS 900^TH RECORDING

Today, a special 900^th edition of UNTV's programme “World Chronicle” will feature Shashi Tharoor, the Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, on the subject "The UN:  irrelevant, indispensable or neither?".

Committee on Information                              PI/1478*

Twenty-fifth Session                                         1 May 2003