1st meeting, (opening only) Committee on Information, 47th Session.
The 47th Session of the Committee on Information (COI) will take place from 28 April to 9 May 2025 at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Committee on Information deals with questions relating to public information.
Opening of the session by the Chair of the Committee.
Election of officers - the Committee will elect a Chair, three Vice-Chairs and a Rapporteur to serve for the subsequent two years.
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.
Admission of new members - The Committee will consider requests for membership in the Committee.
Statement by the Chair - The Chair will address the Committee at its opening meeting.
Statement by the Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications - The Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications will address the Committee at its opening meeting to provide an update on the activities of the Department of Global Communications and to report on the implementation of the recommendations contained in General Assembly resolutions 79/93 A and B.
The Committee on Information is a subsidiary body of the General Assembly, established by the General Assembly to deal with questions relating to public information.
The Committee on Information is responsible for overseeing the work of the Department of Global Communications and for providing it with guidance on policies, programmes and activities of the Department.
Opening of the session by the Chair of the Committee.
Election of officers - the Committee will elect a Chair, three Vice-Chairs and a Rapporteur to serve for the subsequent two years.
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.
Admission of new members - The Committee will consider requests for membership in the Committee.
Statement by the Chair - The Chair will address the Committee at its opening meeting.
Statement by the Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications - The Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications will address the Committee at its opening meeting to provide an update on the activities of the Department of Global Communications and to report on the implementation of the recommendations contained in General Assembly resolutions 79/93 A and B.
The Committee on Information is a subsidiary body of the General Assembly, established by the General Assembly to deal with questions relating to public information.
The Committee on Information is responsible for overseeing the work of the Department of Global Communications and for providing it with guidance on policies, programmes and activities of the Department.
COI Mandate: In its resolution 34/182 of 18 December 1979, the General Assembly outlined the mandate of the Committee on Information as follows:
- To continue to examine United Nations public information policies and activities, in the light of the evolution of international relations, particularly during the past two decades, and of the imperatives of the establishment of the new international economic order and of a new world information and communication order;
- To evaluate and follow up the efforts made and the progress achieved by the United Nations system in the field of information and communications; and
- To promote the establishment of a new, more just and more effective world information and communication order intended to strengthen peace and international understanding and based on the free circulation and wider and better-balanced dissemination of information and to make recommendations thereon to the General Assembly.
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