Resolution 57/109
(December 3, 2002)
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Committee on the Exercise
of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian
People, 1
Taking note in particular
of the information contained in chapter VI
of that report,
Recalling its resolution
56/35 of 3 December 2001,
Convinced that the
worldwide dissemination of accurate and comprehensive
information and the role of civil society
organizations and institutions remain of vital
importance in heightening awareness of and
support for the inalienable rights of the
Palestinian people,
Recalling the commencement
of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, the
mutual recognition between the Government
of the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation
Organization, the representative of the Palestinian
people, and the existing agreements between
the two sides, beginning with the Declaration
of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements
of 1993,2 and the subsequent implementation
agreements,
1. Notes with appreciation
the action taken by the Department of Public
Information of the Secretariat in compliance
with resolution 56/35;
2. Considers that
the special information programme on the question
of Palestine of the Department is very useful
in raising the awareness of the international
community concerning the question of Palestine
and the situation in the Middle East and that
the programme is contributing effectively
to an atmosphere conducive to dialogue and
supportive of the peace process;
3. Requests the Department,
in full cooperation and coordination with
the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable
Rights of the Palestinian People, to continue,
with the necessary flexibility as may be required
by developments affecting the question of
Palestine, its special information programme
for the biennium 2002–2003, in particular:
(a) To disseminate information on all the activities of the United
Nations system relating to the question of
Palestine, including reports on the work carried
out by the relevant United Nations organizations;
(b) To continue to
issue and update publications on the various
aspects of the question of Palestine in all
fields, including materials concerning the
recent developments in that regard, in particular
the prospects for peace;
(c) To expand its
collection of audio-visual material on the
question of Palestine and to continue the
production and preservation of such material
and the updating of the exhibit in the Secretariat;
(d) To organize and
promote fact-finding news missions for journalists
to the area, including the territory under
the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority
and the Occupied Territory;
(e) To organize international,
regional and national seminars or encounters
for journalists, aiming in particular at sensitizing
public opinion to the question of Palestine;
(f) To continue to
provide assistance to the Palestinian people
in the field of media development, in particular
to strengthen the training programme for Palestinian
broadcasters and journalists initiated in
1995.
66th plenary meeting
3 December 2002
Notes:
1. Official Records of the
General Assembly, Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement
No. 35 (A/57/35).
2. See A/48/486-S/26560, annex.
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