30th Session (28 April - 9 May, 2008)
Provisional agenda and annotations/programme of work
- Opening of the session.
- Election of officers.
- Adoption of the agenda and programme of work.
- Statement by the Chairperson.
- Admission of new members.
- Statement by the Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information.
- General debate.
- Consideration of reports submitted by the Secretary-General.
- Open-ended working group of the Committee on Information.
- Consideration and adoption of the report of the Committee to the General Assembly at its sixty-third session.
Annotations/programme of work
28 April 2008
- Opening of the session
The session will be opened by the Chairman of the Committee on Information. - Election of officers
At the beginning of its twenty-ninth session, the Committee elected a Chairperson, three Vice-Chairpersons and a Rapporteur to serve for the next two years. The position of the Chairperson and that of one of the Vice-Chairpersons fell vacant at the end of 2007 following the departure of Rudolf Christen (Chairperson — Switzerland) and Estevao Umba Alberto (Vice-Chairperson — Angola) from their posts in New York. At the beginning of its thirtieth session, the Committee will elect a Chairperson and a Vice-Chairperson to replace them for the remainder of the term. - Adoption of the agenda and programme of work
The provisional agenda has been prepared on the basis of consultations among the members of the Bureau of the Committee on Information. - Statement by the Chairman
The Chairman will address the Committee at its opening meeting. - Admission of new members
The Committee will consider requests for membership in the Committee on Information. - Statement by the Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information
The Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information will address the Committee at its opening meeting to provide an update on the activities of the Department and report on the implementation of the recommendations contained in General Assembly resolutions 61/121 A and B of 14 December 2006.
28-30 April 2008
- General debate
- Consideration of reports submitted by the Secretary-General
- Documentation
1-7 May 2008 [1]
- Open-ended working group of the Committee on Information
The Secretariat will require a 48-hour period to process the draft report of the Committee in all official languages.
9 May 2008
- Consideration and adoption of the report of the Committee to the General Assembly at its sixty-third session
Press Releases
- INFORMATION COMMITTEE SAYS ROLE OF DPI ESSENTIAL IN ENSURING CLEAR, EFFECTIVE VOICE FOR UNITED NATIONS, WORLD’S ‘INDISPENSABLE FOUNDATION’ FOR PEACE, JUSTICE (9 May 2008)
- IN MESSAGE FOR WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS ON ALL SOCIETIES TO ‘SPARE NO EFFORT’ TO BRING TO JUSTICE PERPETRATORS OF ATTACKS ON JOURNALISTS (30 April 2008)
- ENCOURAGED BY POSITIVE STATEMENTS AS INFORMATION COMMITTEE CONCLUDES DEBATE, UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEDGES TO PUSH FOR ‘EVEN BETTER ACHIEVEMENTS’ (30 April 2008)
- IMPORTANCE OF MULTILINGUALISM, RATIONALIZING UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION CENTRES, CLOSING DIGITAL DIVIDE AMONG ISSUES AS INFORMATION COMMITTEE DEBATE CONTINUES (29 April 2008)
- INFORMATION HEAD URGES MEMBER STATES TO JOIN AS PARTNERS IN TELLING UNITED NATIONS STORY, SAYING “WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR A BETTER WORLD” (28 April 2008)
- UNITED NATIONS COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGNS ON KEY ISSUES, PARTNERSHIP WITH CIVIL SOCIETY AMONG WIDE RANGE OF ISSUES, AS INFORMATION COMMITTEE MEETS 28 APRIL - 9 MAY (25 April 2008)
1. ^ 3 May 2008: commemoration of World Press Freedom Day. The General Assembly, by its decision 48/432 of 20 December 1993, declared 3 May World Press Freedom Day. The Department of Public Information will hold a panel discussion on 1 May to commemorate this event. This is not considered to be an official meeting of the Committee on Information.