Mobilization of Public Opinion

A/RES/2567(XXIV)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1970.

What subjects does this mandate have?

9 subjects

Consultants Information Dissemination Information Networks Information Services Information Technology Mass Communication Mass Media Public Opinion Technical Cooperation

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10 operative paragraphs

Endorses in particular the following concepts suggested in the report dated 14 August 1969 of the

Centre for Economic and Social lnformation of the Office of Public Information:~n

Successful information programmes in support of development may require the use of modern techniques, mass media and specialized personnel, in many cases will have to be unprecedented in approach, scope, diversity and initiative, and must encourage full understanding of the relevance, complexity and urgency, as well as the long-term nature, of the problems and processes of development;

The mobilization of public opinion has to be the responsibility mainly of national bodies;

Toe formulation of concrete aims by the competent authorities can make a significant contribution to the mobilization of public opinion;

The role of the organizations of the United Nations systcm will be to assist the national information media and meet their varying needs, in particular by supplying adequate and appropriate basic information from which those media may draw both substancc and inspiration for their work;

lnformation from international sourccs will have to be aimed primarily at strengthening the sense of interdependence and partnership implicit in the concept of the Second United Nations Development Decade;

Further endorses in general the activities now being undertaken in support of the aims of the Second United Nations Development Decade, and notes with interest the proposals for future action outlined in the report of the Centre for Economic and Social Information of the Office of Public lnformation;

Recommends to the Secretary-General, in order to further the aims of Economic and Social Council resolution 1357 (XLV), that appropriate consultations at the technical level be pursued as soon as possible with representatives of the specialized agencies and other organizations dealing with the preparation and dissemination of information material, in order to explore the best means of co-ordinating and focusing the activities in support of the aims of the Second United Nations Development Decade;

Requests the Secretary-General to consult with appropriate non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, in categories I and II and on the Raster, as to how those organizations could support the economic and social goals of the Second United Nations Development Decade, particularly through the mobilization of public opinion;

Urges Governments to give consideration, in the light of their individual circumstances, to the establishment of new national bodies designed to mobilize public opinion, or to the strengthening of existing ones, and, as a long-term measure, to give increasing development orientation to educational curricula.

13 December 1969.

(~onff'rPnf'P ou ao Proceedings uf the United Nati1111s Co11fern1ce on Trade and Dcl'clopment, Second Session, voL í and Corr.1 and 3 and Add.l and 2, Repurt ancl Anu.1,·s (U:1it<-d Nations publication, Sales No.: E.68.ILD.14), p. ,O 31 Official Records of the General Assemb/1', fourtlz Session, Supp/ement No. 16 (A/7616), p_ 7~. 29 A/ AC.141/L.1 l.

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