Public information

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.

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. 

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

Committee on Information

Twenty-fifth Session

4^th & 5^th Meetings (AM & PM)

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL SHASHI THAROOR WELCOMES INFORMATION COMMITTEE’S

ENDORSEMENT OF DPI’S RESTRUCTURING

Committee on Information

Twenty-fifth Session

2^nd & 3^rd Meetings (AM & PM)                           

WORLD LOOKING TO UNITED NATIONS AS SOURCE OF RELIABLE, IMPARTIAL INFORMATION,

COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION TOLD, AS GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES

Committee on Information

Twenty-fifth Session

1^st Meeting (AM)

‘THE UNITED NATIONS MATTERS, AND ITS VOICE MUST BE HEARD’, COMMITTEE

ON INFORMATION TOLD, AS IT BEGINS CURRENT SESSION

Background Release

COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION TO MEET FROM 28 APRIL TO 9 MAY

Ongoing Reform of Information Department to Be Main Focus of Discussion

The twenty-fifth session of the Committee on Information, which makes recommendations to the General Assembly on the policy and activities of the Department of Public Information (DPI), will open on Monday, 28 April, against the backdrop of the Department’s ongoing reform of its activities.

                                                            PI/1470*