Requests the Committee on Information, keeping in mind its mandate, the essential tasks of which are to continue to examine the policies and activities of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat, to continue to promote the establishment of a new, more just and effective world information and communication order and to continue to seek the co-operation and active participation of all organizations of the United Nations system, particularly the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the International Telecommunication Union, while avoiding any overlapping of activities on this subject:

Calls upon all organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to develop, in a concerted manner, integrated and coherent public information programmes to promote understanding of and support for the activities of the system in all its fields, in particular in the economic, social, development and cultural fields;

Requests that the Joint United Nations Information Committee, as the essential instrument for interagency coordination and co-operation in the field of public information, be strengthened and made more effective and that its secretariat elaborate new methods of work and longer-term indicative planning and joint action, especially in the promotion of a new world information and communication order;

Requests the Committee on Information and the Joint United Nations Information Committee to take action in accordance with paragraphs l 5 and I 6 of the recommendations of the Committee on lnformationD for its consideration at its substantive session in 1983;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that future reports of the Department of Public Information to the Committee on Information and to the General Assembly should contain the information set out in paragraph 42 of the recommendations of the Committee;33 1 l . Reiterates the recommendation contained in its resolution 35/201 that additional resources for the Department of Public Information should be commensurate with the increase in the activities of the United Nations which the Department is called upon to cover for the purpose of public information, and that the Secretary-General should provide such resources to the Department to this end where needed;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the activities of the Department of Public Information, as the focal point of the public information tasks of the United Nations, should be strengthened, keeping in view the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and along the lines established in the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the recommendations of the Committee on Information, to ensure a more coherent coverage of, and a better knowledge about, the United Nations and its work, especially in its priority areas, such as those stated in section 111, paragraph I, of Assembly resolution 35/201, including

Requests the Secretary-General, in view of the vital role that information plays in the development process, to ensure that the Department of Public Information cooperates more closely with the United Nations development agencies and programmes, in particular the United Nations Development Programme, both at Headquarters and in the field, in order to pool their resources, avoid duplication and foster effectively the process of development;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the World Disannament Campaign gives full consideration to the role of mass media as the most effective way to promote in world public opinion a climate of understanding, confidence and co-operation conducive to peace and disannament and the enhancement of human rights and development and

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that, within existing resources, the competent organs of the Secretariat prepare a documented factual summary account of the coverage by widely representative world media of developments affecting the Palestinian people from June to December 1982;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the Department of Public Information organizes as soon as possible, in close co-operation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, a round table on a new world information and communication order, with the wide participation of major news media editors and with representation from all regions;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue and intensify his efforts to redress the existing imbalance in the staff of the Department of Public Information, and, until equitable geographical distribution is achieved, to take urgent steps to increase the representation of the group of developing countries, particularly at senior and policy-making levels, by a policy of recruiting among their nationals,

Requests the Secretary-General to take the necessary measures to implement the existing plan regarding programming in the Portuguese language and to submit to the Committee on Information at its next session specific proposals, including estimates of costs and benefits, for a separate plan to enable the African Unit in the Radio Service to undertake programming at a meaningful level in French and major languages of the region other than those already in use;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Committee on Information at its next session a new. ex tensive and detailed report on the acqu1S1t1on of a United Nations communications satellite, which would include the different alternatives and analyse and evaluate the current administrative costs in relation to telephone, telex, radio, video, document processing, the holding of conferences, travel by interpreters, and so on, and, while projecting sevenyear operational goals, compare them with the cost to the United Nations of its own satellite, taking into account all potential uses of such a satellite by the United Nations system and also presenting feasible financing and self-maintenance alternatives, and in this regard requests that the Committee on Information should, at its next session, also take into account the basic report on communications to be produced by the Joint Inspection Unit;

Requests the Secretary-General further to strengthen co-operation by the Department of Public Information with the Pool of Non-Aligned News Agencies, as well as with the regional news agencies of developing countries, and furthermore requests that the practice of coverage by the agencies of the Pool, in co-operation with the Department of Public Information, of important conferences and events within the United Nations system should be continued and strengthened;

Requests the Secretary-General to publish the UN Chronicle in all the official languages of the United Nations and, within existing financial resources, to take the measures necessary to ensure that the UN Chronicle be further improved to present a wide and more comprehensive coverage of United Nations activities and that it be published in an attractive and appropriate format to ensure a wide, timely and effective circulation;

Requests the Secretary-General to strengthen the capacity and enhance the role of the United Nations information centres through, in particular, the implementation of the provisions of paragraph 22 of the recommendations of the Committee on lnformation;33 24.

Requests the Secretary-General to initiate practical efforts towards a balance in the use of all the official languages of the United Nations in the radio broadcasting programme covering United Nations conferences held away from United Nations Headquarters;

Requests the Secretary-General to proceed, without prejudice to any future plan concerning the regionalization of the Radio and Visual Services Division, to maintain and enhance the functions of the Arabic and Middle East Unit in the Radio Service as the producer of television and radio programmes for the Arabic-speaking countries and requests that he should, similarly, enlarge it through the redeployment of existing resources;

Requests the Secretary-General to report further to the Committee on Information at its next session on the viability of a world-wide United Nations short-wave network, its regional segments and its pertinent frequencies, as well as on the alternative solution of continuing to rent broadcast time on existing national short-wave transmitters;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue the cooperation between the Department of Public Information and the Union of National Radio and Television Organizations of Africa, as well as with radio stations which are members of that Union. in order to broadcast United Nations

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Committee on Information, at its substantive session in 1983, on the implementation of all the recommendations contained in the Committee's report;33 30.

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-eighth session on the implementation of the present resolution, in particular on the implementation of all the recommendations contained in the report of the Committee on Information;

Requests the Committee on Information to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-eighth session;