World Communications Year Development of Communications Infrastructures

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12 Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1981.

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 subjects

Communications International Years

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Recalling also its resolution 35/109 of 5 December 1980 Communications Infrastructures on the World Communications Year, by which it endorsed the arrangements made by the Economic and Social Council

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Endorses the proposal made by the Economic and Social Council in paragraph 1 of its resolution 1981/60 and proclaims the year 1983 World Communications Year: Development of Communications Infrastructures, with the International Telecommunication Union serving as the lead agency for the Year and having responsibility for co-ordinating the interorganizational aspects of the programmes and activities of other agencies;

Requests all States to participate actively in the attainment of the objectives of the World Communications Year;

Invites the competent organizations and agencies of the United Nations system to co-operate closely with the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, within their respective terms of reference, for the implementation of the programme for the World Communications Year;

Invites non-governmental organizations and users of communications services to participate actively in the World Communications Year and to secure the fullest possible coordination of their programmes for the Year, particularly at the national level;

Invites Governments and interested organizations to make voluntary contributions to the World Communications Year through the Special Fund for the World Communications Year co-ordinated by the International Telecommunication Union, in order to ensure increased financing of projects at the national, regional and global levels;

Appeals to governmental authorities and appropriate organizations to make circuits available for reporting on the activities of the World Communications Year through existing means of information, including radio and television broadcasts, in collaboration with those authorities;

Requests the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-seventh session, through the Economic and Social Council at its second regular session of 1982, on the state of preparations for the World Communications Year.

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Who adopted this document and its mandates?

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What’s in this document?

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