Dissemination of Information on Namibia

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1977.

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5 versions · 1977–1982

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1977A/RES/31/150Dissemination of information on Namibia

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12 topics

Audiovisual Materials Budget German Language Information Dissemination International Weeks Maps Namibia National Liberation Movements Postage Stamps Public Information Publications Special Missions

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11 operative paragraphs

Requests the United Nations Council for Namibia to send a mission to the headquarters of the specialized agencies and non-gove~nme1;1.tal. organi~ations to discuss the question of d1ssemmat1on of mformation and assistance to Namibians;

Requests the Secretary-General to direct the Office of Public Information of the Secretariat, in cooperation with the United Nations Council for Namibia:

To acquire and distribute appropria_te_ films _on Namibia, including the new film on Namibia which was shown at United Nations Headquarters on Namibia Day, 26 August 1976;

( b) To prepare, in consultation with the South West Africa People's Organization, a film on the contemporary situation inside Nami~ia an~ the. struggle of the Namibian people for genume nat10nal mdependence;

To continue publicity through television, radio and other media;

To continue to give publicity to the United Nations Council for Namibia and the South West Affrica People's Organization on tt:levision in the Uni!ed States of America and other ma1or Western countries, in order to mobilize support in those countries for the genuine national independence of Namibia;

Requests Member States and the United Nations Postal Administration to issue commemorative stamps on Namibia until genuine national independence for Namibia is achieved;

Further requests the Secretary-General to direct the Office of Public Information to continue to make every effort to generate publicity and disseminate information with a view to mobilizing public support for the independence of Namibia;

Decides to make adequate budgetary provtsion in order to meet the additional costs required to expand the circulation of the Namibia Bulletin and to add German to the languages in which it is published;

Decides to observe the week of 27 October as a week of solidarity with the people of Namibia and its liberation movement, the South West Africa People's Organization, as proposed by the President of Senegal at the Dakar International Conference on Namibia and Human Rights,96 and requests the United Nations Council for Namibia to prepare a commemorative programme for that purpose;

Requests the Secretary-General urgently to undertake, in consultation with the United Nations Council for Namibia, the preparation of a comprehensive United Nations map of Namibia reflecting therein the territorial integrity of the Territory of Namibia;

Further requests the United Nations Council for Namibia to follow the implementation of the present

96 Ibid., Supplement No. 24 (A/31/24 ), vol. II, annex II, para. 25. resolution and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its thirty-second session.

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