24th Session (22 April - 2 May 2002)
Reports
Committee on Information
Programme of work
- Provisional agenda and annotations/programme of work - A/AC.198/2002/1 [PDF, 101KB], and Revision - A/AC.198/2002/1/Rev.1 [PDF, 26KB]
Reports of the Secretary-General to the Committee on Information
- Reorientation of United Nations activities in the field of public information and communications - A/AC.198/2002/2 [PDF, 165KB]
- United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations (2001) - A/AC.198/2002/3 [PDF, 111KB]
- Integration of United Nations information centres with field offices of the United Nations Development Programme: continued implementation of the views of host Governments - A/AC.198/2002/4 [PDF, 45KB]
- Substantive questions: role of the Department of Public Information in United Nations peacekeeping - A/AC.198/2002/5 [PDF, 121KB]
- Continued development, maintenance and enrichment of the United Nations web site in the six official languages - A/AC.198/2002/6 [PDF, 72KB]
- Activities of the Joint United Nations Information Committee in 2001 - A/AC.198/2002/7 [PDF, 113KB]
General Assembly - Questions relating to information
Documents
- Report on the twenty-fourth session of the Committee on Information - A/57/21 [PDF, 142KB]
- Report of the Secretary-General
- Report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee)
Resolution
- Questions relating to information - A/RES/57/130 A-B [PDF, 100KB]
Statements
Opening statements at the twenty-fourth session of the Committee on Information on 22 April 2002:
- Chairman of the Committee on Information [Spanish; also available in French]
- Statement by the Interim Head of the Department of Public Information [Original: English and French]
Remarks at the closing of the general debate twenty-fourth session of the Committee on Information on 24 April 2002:
- Mr. Shashi Tharoor, Interim Head, Department of Public Information [English and French]
Statements by Members of the Committee (in chronological and alphabetical order)
24 April 2002:
- Azerbaijan
- Benin [French]
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- Ghana
- Guyana
- Indonesia
- Jordan [Arabic - PDF, 105KB]
- Kazakhstan
- Monaco [French]
- Ukraine
- Yemen [Arabic - PDF, 118KB]
23 April 2002:
- Bangladesh
- Belarus [Russian]
- Costa Rica, on behalf of the Rio Group [Spanish]
- Cuba [Spanish]
- China [also available in Chinese - PDF, 104KB]
- Jamaica, on behalf of the states of the CARICOM
- Japan
- Mexico [Spanish]
- Morocco [Arabic - PDF, 117KB]
- Nepal
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Republic of Korea
- Russian Federation
- Syrian Arab Republic [Arabic - PDF, 149KB]
- Tunisia [French]
- United States of America
28 April 2002:
- Algeria [French]
- Egypt
- India
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- Spain, on behalf of the European Union [also available in Spanish]
- Venezuela, on behalf of the Group of 77 and China [also available in Spanish]
Press Releases
- COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION CALLS FOR ‘WIDE-RANGING, INNOVATIVE PROPOSALS’ BY SECRETARY-GENERAL - 2 May 2002
- COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION DISCUSSES UN WEB SITE LANGUAGE PARITY, INFORMATION SUPPORT FOR PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS - 24 April 2002
- UN MUST PLAY GREATER ROLE IN BRIDGING ‘DIGITAL DIVIDE’, COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION TOLD AS DEBATE CONTINUES - 23 April 2002
- SPEAKERS IN INFORMATION COMMITTEE DEBATE ROLES OF DEPARTMENT, EXTERNAL MEDIA IN PROMOTING UN CONCERNS - 23 April 2002
- HARD CHOICES, DECISIONS MUST BE MADE TO ACHIEVE GREATER EFFECTIVENESS, DPI HEAD TELLS COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION - 22 April 2002
- REORIENTATION OF DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION FOCUS, AS COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION MEETS 22 APRIL – 2 MAY - 19 April 2002
- SOLIDARITY AND SUPPORT FOR AFGHAN WOMEN EXPRESSED IN STATEMENT BY COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN - 30 January 2002