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Chinese envoy calls on strengthening of UN public info services

Xinhua, April 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

A Chinese envoy to the UN Monday called on the enhancement of the world organization's public information services and promotion of the use of the Chinese language in the UN system.

"China commends the work of the Department of Public Information (DPI) in news services, strategic communications and outreach activities," Wang Min, China's deputy permanent representative to the UN said at a meeting of the Committee on Information.

Noting the UN is the main platform for countries to promote multilateralism, Wang said that the organization's public information and communications services should be strengthened.

"Efforts should be made to protect the right to information about UN affairs of all countries, the vast number of developing countries in particular," said Wang.

As 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations and the victory of the world anti-Fascist war, the envoy held that "the focus of DPI's work should be sharpened."

"A host of UN summits and commemorative activities are scheduled and the post-2015 development agenda will be adopted. These events will exert profound influence on peace and development of the world and hence attract close attention of the international community," said he.

"We hope that the DPI will call upon the international community to seize the opportunity of the 70th anniversary of the organization to reflect on history and look into the future, to uphold the victorious outcome of the world anti-Fascist war and to safeguard the purposes and principles of the UN Charter," he added.

He also called upon the promotion of the equitable use of all six UN official languages, namely Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

"As the language used by the biggest number of people in the world, Chinese has not received equitable treatment in UN documents, publications and media," he said.

Except for the United Nations main website in the Chinese language, the Chinese version of websites of many UN departments and agencies "suffer from inadequate amount of information and lack of updates," he pointed out, adding that similar problems exist with websites in the other non-English official languages.

The envoy called for more efforts from the UN public information services and offered China's support in this regard. Endi