3038 (XXVII). Dissemination of Information and mobilization of public opinion regarding problems of trade and development
The General Assembly,
Bearing in mind paragraph 84 of the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade relating to the mobilization of public opinion,
Recalling its resolution 2800 (XXVI) of 14 December 1971,
Regarding the dissemination of information and the mobilization of public opinion relative to the review and appraisa1 of progrcss in the implementation of the International Development Strategy,
Noting with satisfaction resolution 43 (III) of 17 May 1972, in which the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development proposed a series of specific measures for the dissemination of information and the mobilization of public opinion relative to problems of trade and development,
Noting also agreed conclusion 89 (XII) of 20 October 1972, adopted on the subject by the Trade and Development Board at the first part of its twelfth session,
Convinced that improvement in the dissemination of information and the mobilization of public opinion, particularly among young people, would be an important factor for greater awareness of the general problems of development and would thus promote the increased efforts requircd in the sphere of international co-operation for development and the success of the International Developmcnt Strategy,
1. Decides to institute a World Development Information Day with the object of drawing the attention of world public opinion cach year to development problems and the necessity of strengthening international co-operation to solve them;
2. Further decides that the date for this day shall coincide in principle with United Nations Day, 24 October, which is al so the date on which thc International Development Strategy íor thc Second Nations Development Decade was adopted in 1970;
3. Invites the Trade and Development Board to study at its fifth special session, devoted to the review and appraisal of the Second Unitcd Nations Development Decade, the preliminary report of thc Secretary-General of the United Nations as well as the interim report requested of thc Sccretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in agreed conclusion 89 (XII);
4. Requests thc Secretary-General of the United Nations to prepare, for the fifth special session of the Trade and Development Board, a detailed report colaborating the elements outlined in his preliminary report;
5. Further invites the Secretary-General of the United Nations to indicate in the detailed report mentioned in paragraph 4 above what measures he is considering, in accordance with paragraph 5 of resolution 43 (III) of the United Nations Conferenee on Trade and Development, to strengthen the information services of the Conference and to regroup them, in close liaison with the Office of Public Infonnation, in particular the Centre for Economic ami Social Information and other United Nations information sources, in an inforrnation unit responsible for giving wider publicity to the debates and decisions of the Conference concerning problerns of trade and development and to the objectives of the International Development Strategy of concern to the Conference
6. Requests the Trade and Development Board at its fifth special session to outline a programmc of events for World Development Information Day in 1973 and to make specific proposals to that end;
7. Requests the Economic and Social Council at its fifty-fifth session, taking into consideration the report of the Trade and Developrnent Board on its fifth special session, to draw up a programme of events for World Developmcnt Information Day in 1973.
2115th plenary meeting
19 December 1972
Fuentes:
http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/270/68/IMG/NR027068.pdf?OpenElement