UNESCO's Executive Board approved item 13 of its provisional agenda "Proclamation of a World Radio Day" to be celebrated each 13 February. It's an interesting initiative, although it probably would have been more valuable twenty years ago. The Executive's decision: _Recommends_ to the [UNESCO] General Conference that it proclaim a World Radio Day and that this Day be celebrated on 13 February, the day the United Nations established the concept of United Nations Radio; _Invites_ all Member States, organizations of the United Nations system and other international and regional organizations, professional associations and broadcasting unions, as well as civil society, including non-governmental organizations and individuals, to duly celebrate the World Radio Day, in the way that each considers most adequate; _Requests _the Director-General, subject to the final resolution of the General Conference, to bring this resolution to the attention of the Secretary-General of the United Nations so that World Radio Day may be endorsed by the General Assembly. The decision is available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic as 187 EX/13 at the bottom of the page http://www.unesco.org/new/en/executive-board/187th-session/main-series/ -- | Jaisakthivel Via Bruce Girard, Montevideo, Uruguay |
