United Nations Audio-Visual Information Centre on Human Settlements (Vision Habitat)

A/RES/34/115View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 65 Human settlements, published in 1980.

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Recommends that the Executive Director of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) should take the necessary steps to establish a unified information service within the Centre to comprise a suitable range of information and communications skills and capabilities, including an audio-visual component at an appropriate level;

Decides that, upon the termination or expiration of the agreement referred to above, the functions and transferable assets of the United Nations Audio-Visual Information Centre on Human Settlements (Vision Habitat) should be transferred to the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements;

Requests the Secretary-General to consult with the Government of Canada on the appropriate formal

arrangements regarding the termination or expiration of the agreement;

Encourages all Member States to make available to the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements audio-visual material prepared for their programmes of national action;

Appeals to all States and interested organizations 5. to make available to the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements the necessary resources for continuing its audio-visual and information activities;

Requests the Executive Director of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements to report to the Commission on Human Settlements at its third session on the progress achieved towards the establishment of a unified information service.

66 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 8 (A/34/8), paras. 89-95.

V. Resolutlom adopted on tbe repom of the Second Committee

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