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PI/1200

FOURTH WORLD TELEVISION FORUM OPENS AT HEADQUARTERS ADDRESSING THEME ‘MIRROR OR MAP? THE IMPACT OF TELEVISION ON PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT’

Secretary-General Addresses Forum from Istanbul, Turkey; Discusses ‘Television and the United Nations’ with Three Television Journalists

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PI/1199

FOURTH WORLD TELEVISION FORUM TO DRAW 750 PARTICIPANTS FROM 80 COUNTRIES; WILL LOOK AT MEDIUM’S IMPACT ON PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT

Secretary-General to Share Panel With Prominent News Anchors

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PI/1199

UN CYBERSCHOOLBUS SPONSORS 'PEACE FLAG PROJECT' TO CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL YEAR FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE

Invites Students to Submit Designs for World Peace Flag; Winning Entry Could be Reproduced as United Nations Stamp

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PI/1198

MUSEUM OF TELEVISION AND RADIO, IN COOPERATION WITH UNITED NATIONS, TO HOLD ITS EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S TELEVISION FESTIVAL

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PI/1196

INFORMATION COMMITTEE ADOPTS FINAL REPORT, WINDS UP SESSION

Calls On Assembly to Add Liberia, Mozambique, To Board, Urge Pursuit of Modular Parity Between Official Languages

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PI/1195

DEVELOPING LANGUAGE VERSIONS OF WEB SITE PROMISES WIDER ACCESS, LOWER COST, UNDER SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS INFORMATION COMMITTEE

Members Agree to Defer Adoption Of Report Pending Finalization of Texts

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PI/1194

UPGRADING UN WEBSITES IN ALL LANGUAGES REQUIRES SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT, UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS INFORMATION COMMITTEE

To begin the process of achieving language parity among the United Nations' Web sites on an incremental basis will require an additional allocation of some $13.5 million, the Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, Kensaku Hogen, told the Committee on Information this morning.

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PI/1193

WEEKLY DPI/NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION BRIEFING TO BE VIDEOCONFERENCE WITH UN IN KOSOVO

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PI/1188

DPI TO HOLD TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR PALESTINIAN JOURNALISTS

Seven Palestinian journalists from broadcast and print media will participate in a training programme organized by the Department of Public Information (DPI), from 25 October to 17 December.

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PI/1187
SOC/4518

INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ERADICATION OF POVERTY TO BE OBSERVED ON 17 OCTOBER

1999 Observance Focus on Women and Poverty