Public Information Activities of the United Nations

A/RES/1405(XIV)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1960.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 1952–1961

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/1558(XV)

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1961	A/RES/1558(XV)	Public information activities of the United Nations	1,632	10%Compare
1960	A/RES/1405(XIV)	Public information activities of the United Nations	487	17%Compare
1959	A/RES/1335(XIII)	Public information activities of the United Nations	431	12%Compare
1958	A/RES/1177(XII)	Public information activities of the United Nations	413	16%Compare
1957	A/RES/1086(XI)	Public information activities of the United Nations	322	13%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Experts Information Centres Information Policy Programme Expenditures Public Information

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Requests the Secretary-General to give continuing and special consideration to the importance of adequate regional representation at the policy-making level of the Office of Public Information and in the information centres;

Requests the Secretary-General, with the agreement of the Governments concerned, to establish such new information centres as appear necessary and practicable, particularly in those regions where mass information media are less developed, preferably by a further decentralization of Headquarters staff and services to the extent he finds possible ;

Requests the Secretary-General to enlist the cooperation of the Member States concerned in providing all possible facilities for the establishment of such new centres and in assisting actively in efforts to promote wider public understanding of the aims and activities of the United Nations;

Expresses the hope that media of information and publicity, non-governmental organizations and educational institutions in all Member States will continue their efforts to expand their commendable activities on behalf of a greater understanding of the United Nations by a fuller dissemination of accurate and objective information ;

Requests the Secretary-General to include in his report on the Office of Public Information to the

11 Ibid.,

Fourteenth Session,

Annexes, separate fascicle (A/4163).

12 Ibid., Annexes, agenda item 48, document A/4229.

18 Ibid., agenda item 52, document A/4122.

policy and programmes planned to be executed by the Office during the coming year, with comments thereon;

Requests the Secretary-General to appoint, in consultation with the Governments of Member States, a panel of qualified persons representative of the various geographical areas and main cultures of the world, and to consult with members of that panel from time to time on United Nations information policies and programmes in order to ensure maximum effectiveness at minimum cost ;

Requests the Secretary-General, having regard to the aforementioned policy of budgetary stabilization and to all other means designed to ensure maximum effectiveness at the lowest possible cost, to plan the public information programmes in 1960 on the assumption that the total net expenditure for the year shall be about $5 million ;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its fifteenth session on the implementation of the above recommendations and on the measures taken and planned for the further implementation of resolution 1335 (XIII).

1 December 1959.

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

What other versions does this mandate have?

What subjects does this mandate have?

What’s in this document?

Table of contents