Background Release

REORIENTATION OF DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION FOCUS,

AS COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION MEETS 22 APRIL – 2 MAY

Training Seminar on Internet for French-speaking African Permanent Missions

held in New York, from 4 to 11 April

NEW YORK, 10 April (DPI) -- The United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) and the International Organization of la Francophonie (OIF) are holding a Training Seminar on the Internet for French-speaking African Permanent Missions at United Nations Headquarters in New York, from 4 to 11 April.

DPI LAUNCHES UNITED NATIONS NEWS SERVICE BY E-MAIL;

UN NEWS CENTRE WEB SITE IS UPGRADED

FIFTY-THIRD VOLUME OF UNITED NATIONS YEARBOOK PUBLISHED

COVERING ORGANIZATION’S MAJOR ACTIVITIES IN 1999

LIBRARIES IN CHINA AND REPUBLIC OF KOREA DESIGNATED

UNITED NATIONSDEPOSITORY LIBRARIES

LIBRARIES IN BRAZIL, CHINA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

AND UNITED STATES DESIGNATED UNITED NATIONS DEPOSITORY LIBRARIES

(Reissued as received.)

Six libraries, located in Brazil, China, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the United States, have been designated United Nations depository libraries, becoming part of an international network of 404 libraries in

CAUTION:  ADVANCE RELEASE                                   PI/1383*

MULTIMEDIA WEB SITE LAUNCHED IN COMMEMORATION OF FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY

OF DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD’S DEATH

On 18 September 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, died in a plane crash in Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, with 15 others.

Committee on Information

Resumed Twenty-third Session

8^th Meeting (PM)

COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION APPROVES DRAFT RESOLUTION WHICH WILL EXPAND UN RADIO’S CAPACITY, AS IT CONCLUDES RESUMED TWENTY-THIRD SESSION

FIFTY-FOURTH DPI-NGO CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT HEADQUARTERS, 10-12 SEPTEMBER

“NGOs Today:  Diversity of the Volunteer Experience” will be the theme of the fifty-fourth annual Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Conference, to be held at Headquarters from 10 to 12 September.