High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Overall Review of the Implementation of the Outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society

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A Decision of the General Assembly, under agenda item 17 Information and communications technologies for development, published in 2016.

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At its 78th plenary meeting, on 16 December 2015, the General Assembly decided, without setting a precedent, to invite United Nations agency representatives Mr. Malcolm Johnson, Deputy Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union; Mr. Getachew Engida, Deputy Director-General and Assistant Director- General for Communication and Information of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; Mr. Patrick Keuleers, Director and Chief of Profession of the Governance and Peacebuilding Team of the United Nations Development Programme; and Mr. Torbjörn Fredriksson, Officer-in-Charge of the Science, Technology and ICT Branch of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, to make a statement at the high-level meeting of the Assembly on the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society.

_______________ 34 A/70/225-S/2015/586. 35 Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 1 (A/70/1). 36 Ibid., Supplement No. 3 (A/70/3). 37 Ibid., Supplement No. 4 (A/70/4). 38 A/70/300. 39 Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 2 (A/70/2).

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