1 report of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 1954.
1954E/2534Freedom of information : encouragement and development of independent domestic information enterprises report
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What does this mandate say?
6 operative paragraphs
1
Invitesthe Economic and Social Council to consider, in the light of the discussions at the seventh session of the General Assembly, the desirability of expanding the area of its study of this question; and, to that end,
2
Requeststhe Secretary-General, in preparing the report called for under the above-mentioned resolution of the Council, also to elaborate a programme of concrete action which would include, inter alia:
a
Measures to reduce economic and financial obstacles in the field of information;
( b) Measures to organize and promote among countries the exchange of information personnel;
( c) Measures to assist the training of information personnel, the raismi of professional and technical standards, the provision of fellowships and the holding of regional seminars;
d
All nec~ssary measures in connexion with the supply of newsprint;
3
Calls upon the Economic and Social Council to submit the above-mentioned programme, together with recommendations thereon, to the General Assembly at its eighth session ;
4
Further invitesthe Council to recommend to the organizations participating in the technical as,;istance and other programmes providing aid or assistance at the request of Member States that they give sympathetic consideration to requests which governments may submit for such aid or assistance within the framework of those programmes with a view to improving information facilities and increasing the quantity and improving the quality of information available to the peoples of the world, as one means of implementing the right of freedom of information as enunciated in the provisions of Article 1, paragraph 3, and Article 55 of the Charter of the United Nations and in article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
16 December 1952.
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