The press releases were made available to the news media and were distributed electronically to United Nations information centres and services and were posted on the United Nations home page of the World Wide Web.

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There were news!

I got news, big news.

The responsibility for the programme is vested in the Department of Public Information both at Headquarters in New York and in the worldwide network of United Nations information centres and services, information components and regional hubs, where applicable.

In others, national information officers will be deployed, as the most senior Department of Public Information staff in that location.

23.8 The objective will be accomplished by giving a more strategic focus to the activities of the Department and the United Nations information centres and services, information components and regional hubs, where applicable.

Elopement, headlines, divorce, headlines and now you're back for the wedding?

Alisa Miller shares the news about the news

The U.S. accounted for 79 percent of total news coverage.

Typists apos rooms 74 U information centres,

Reaffirms the central role of the Committee on Information in United Nations public information policies and activities, including the prioritization of those activities, and decides that recommendations relating to the programme of the Department of Public Information originate, to the extent possible, and are considered in the Committee

Since many UNICs and UNISs are located in countries where indigenous people live, they will also be asked to involve, whenever possible, indigenous people in the planning process of their activities.

Mention was made of the importance of the media in disseminating information.

IPS International Press Service

I got one now.

And now, back to the local news.

52. As part of the Department of Public Information (DPI) mandate for information programmes and activities, it coordinates and initiates public information activities to publicize the work of the Organization on human rights issues and for the World Public Information Campaign for Human Rights.

The Centre produced a press release in Farsi and English in all major newspapers.

Annex II Statement by the Under Secretary General for Communications and Public Information at the opening of the twentieth session of

The United Nations information centres and services have a key role to play in this context.

12. Reaffirms the role of the Committee on Information in guiding the process of restructuring the Department of Public Information, and therefore invites the Committee on Information to engage actively in the process

Moreover, information centres should be provided with sufficient resources, particularly those in countries where local media are less developed.

It was also attempting to familiarize them with the rules and procedures of the United Nations.

In 1995 and 1996, UNIS issued 824 press releases in English and 753 in French.

27.20 The objective of subprogramme 1 will be accomplished by giving a more strategic focus to the activities of the Department and the United Nations information centres and services, information components and regional hubs, where applicable.

58. These materials, as well as press releases and United Nations documents, are distributed electronically by DPI to the network of Information Centres and Services and are posted on the United Nations Website on the Internet (http www.un.org).

This builds on the more long term activities undertaken by the Department at Headquarters and through the network of United Nations information centres and services in the field in the months leading up to the special session.

Kirk Citron And now, the real news

Hate to rush, Helen, but OK if I do the newspaper now?

Renewing the News

In response to questionnaires circulated by the Department of Public Information, journalists expressed general satisfaction with the timeliness of the Department's news and media products.

The work of IPS is organized along two main lines of activity the IPS news agency and IPS projects.

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Obviously, there is ample room for further enhancement of the Department's public information capacity.

The Department continues to provide press release coverage, in English and French, of all open intergovernmental meetings, as well as press briefings and conferences.

The Chairman said that the Committee on Information had been established in 1978 to review United Nations public information policies and activities.