Date
April 22, 2013
Title
Report of the Secretary-General, A/AC.198/2013/3
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The power of the United Nations today is amply demonstrated in a report being discussed this week on the "Activities of the Department of Public Information: news services." It says that the UN website had 17.2 million new visits and 29 million visits in 11 months of 2012. Furthermore, the UN "delivered video news stories six days a week through Associated Press Television to more than 1,000 broadcast points globally." According to the report "the coverage of the Assembly's vote on the status of Palestine held on 29 November 2012 received more than 118,000 video views from users in 174 countries and territories." (Here are the disturbing lowlights of that meeting.) The UN Youtube channel has a "cumulative total of video views exceeding 6 million." 18,000 images were added to the UN's photo database. 2.7 million views were registered by the UN photo site. In the last six months of last year, the UN produced 2,042 press releases. That's an average of 11 per day.