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World Development
Information Day
24 October 2001 |
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| The General Assembly in 1972 instituted World
Development Information Day to draw the attention of world public opinion to development
problems and the need to strengthen international cooperation to solve them (resolution
3038(XXVII)). The Assembly decided that the date for the Day should coincide in principle
with United Nations Day, 24 October, which was also the date of the adoption, in 1970, of
the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade.
The Assembly felt that improving the dissemination of information and the mobilization of
public opinion, particularly among young people, would lead to greater awareness of the
problems of development, thus, promoting efforts in the sphere of international
cooperation for development. |
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Source: UN Conferences and
Observances : http://www.un.org/events/ref40.htm |
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