2. Notes with satisfaction the adoption by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization of the medium-term strategy for 2002-2007, which directs the work of the organization on two cross-cutting themes, namely, the eradication of poverty, especially extreme poverty, and the contribution of information and communication technologies to the development of education, science and culture and the construction of a knowledge society, and is based upon the notion that culture may contribute effectively to the reduction of poverty;
2. 满意地注意到联合国教育、科学及文化组织通过了2002-2007年中期战略，该战略指导教科文组织在两个交叉主题方面的工作，并以文化可有效地帮助减少贫穷的概念为依据，所涉的两个主题是消除贫穷、特别是极端贫穷，以及信息和通信技术对发展教育、科学和文化及建立知识社会的贡献；