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And he gave them the story.

The Department also provided constant updates to the web site dedicated to providing information on the work of the President of the Assembly.

The Centre provided posters, photos and information materials.

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In the months to come, the Department hopes to increase the range of official documentation and public information materials available through its home page, making most of them available either at the same time as, or even earlier than, the printed versions.

(e) Press releases press releases concerning the Court's activities to the local, national and international press

You see, we furnish him with items.

Its secretariat is provided by the Department of Public Information.

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

Media representatives expect a continuous flow of accurate and newsworthy information from the Organization.

Increasingly, there were signs of a better team spirit throughout the Department and greater cohesiveness of its messages at all levels.

One speaker said that the Department should give priority to providing delegations with press releases.

And he said, Why don't I look at the news better?

4. Requests the Department of Public Information to continue its efforts to update web based information on the assistance programmes available to the Non Self Governing Territories

The Department will also provide international news syndicators with full coverage of the special session.

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.

For example, based on feedback from users, one of the Department's web sites has since been redesigned to better serve their information needs.

On a higher plane, the press is a service industry, and the service it provides is awareness.

8. Today, in this age of information technology, the issue of press freedom has more relevance than ever before. The opportunities presented by these rapid changes in technology are boundless.

12. Welcomes the action by some Member States with regard to financial and material support to United Nations information centres in their respective capitals, and invites the Secretary General, through the Department of Public Information, to consult Member States, where appropriate, on the possibility of providing the centres with additional voluntary support on a national basis

44. As to the Department s relations with the press, one speaker said that the Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary General expertly provided complete and timely information to the media and another expressed its appreciation for the Department s services to correspondents.

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

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(b) Access to the press documentation services provided by the United Nations

The importance attached by his Government to the United Nations Information Centre in Tokyo was reflected in the assistance it gave to the Department of Public Information for the Centre's public information activities.

He welcomed the fact that the Department had taken advantage of new opportunities for the preparation and timely distribution of information materials by electronic means.

14. The Office provided advice to the Ministry of Information and local press associations on the draft sub decree necessary to implement the Press Law, which was passed in 1995.

The methods used by the Department to provide this coverage included production of press releases, publications, television news packages and radio programmes, and organizing press briefings and briefings for the public

Moreover, to best fulfil the Department's basic mission of informing the peoples of the world about the important work done in their name, it would be more beneficial and equitable to post the Organization's important documents on the United Nations web site in other languages in addition to the six official ones, as suggested by the representatives of Japan and the Republic of Korea.

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The sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations this year a time of reflection and renewal presents DPI with an excellent opportunity to tell the United Nations story in a more dynamic way to more people around the world than ever before.

69. Over the last year, all information centres were provided with the very latest computer technology.

B. Original output by the Department available only on the Internet

A great newspaperman.

At the initiative of the United Nations information centre at Beirut, the daily An Nahar devoted a news supplement to human rights, which was based on information materials provided by the Centre.

The Office also provides lectures for the briefings organized by the Department of Public Information.

3. The Under Secretary General for Communications and Public Information provided additional substantive information in his opening statement to the Committee.

The Working Group expressed its gratitude to the Department of Public Information, and in particular to its Director, for the valuable assistance in providing important background information and press releases concerning indigenous issues.

His delegation viewed as timely the measures taken by the Department to expand the capacity of the United Nations to provide information promptly to the media.

50. The NGO Section of the Department of Public Information serves the NGOs associated with the Department in a number of ways .

11. Welcomes the proposals of the Secretary General to improve the effective and targeted delivery of public information activities, including the restructuring of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat, in accordance with the relevant resolutions and decisions of the General Assembly

5. Welcomes the proposals of the Secretary General to improve the effective and targeted delivery of public information activities, including the restructuring of the Department of Public Information, in accordance with the relevant resolutions and decisions of the General Assembly

23.12 The objective will be accomplished through the timely delivery of accurate, balanced and, where feasible, customized news and information materials and services, namely, radio, television, photographic, print and Internet, to media and other users globally, utilizing new information technologies to reach a wider audience more quickly.