3. 新闻部与维持和平行动部和外勤支助部密切合作，于 5 月 24 日在联合国纽约总部举行了 2017 年联合国维持和平人员国际日的纪念活动，主题是“致力于世界和平事业”。借助此次纪念活动，联合国新闻中心通过一系列活动与会员国进行了接触交流，这些活动包括巡游和游行、展览、书展、研讨会、与学校开展外联、多媒体方案以及将秘书长的致辞翻译成当地语言供媒体传播。联合国达喀尔新闻中心与武装部队部和姆巴伊·迪亚涅上尉友好协会通过一个正式纪念仪式并随后组织专题小组讨论，以此向殉职的维持和平人员致敬。。设在坦桑尼亚联合共和国达累斯萨拉姆的联合国新闻中心主办了一次简报会，由坦桑尼亚籍前维和人员在会上向 1 300 多名学生做了情况介绍。在联合国达喀尔新闻中心的支持下，联合国驻地协调员办事处在孟加拉国举行了表彰维和牺牲和受伤维和人员的活动，孟加拉国总统和外交部长与 1 500 多名与会者参加了活动。联合国加德满都新闻中心帮助联合国国家工作队在联合国大院树立了一座纪念碑，以纪念牺牲的尼泊尔籍维和人员。
3. Working closely with the Departments of Peacekeeping Operations and Field Support, the Department of Public Information marked the 2017 International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers on 24 May at United Nations Headquarters under the theme “Investing in peace around the world”. The commemoration allowed United Nations information centres to engage with Member States through a range of events, including parades and marches, exhibitions, book fairs, seminars, outreach to schools, multimedia programmes and translation of the Secretary-General’s message into local languages for distribution. The United Nations information centre in Dakar, together with the Ministry of Armed Forces and the Association of Friends of Captain Mbaye Diagne, paid tribute to missing peacekeepers with an official ceremony and a subsequent panel discussion. The United Nations information centre in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, hosted a briefing by former Tanzanian peacekeepers for more than 1,300 students. In Bangladesh, the President and Minister for Foreign Affairs joined more than 1,500 attendees at an event honouring fallen and injured peacekeepers, which was co-organized by the Office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator with support from the United Nations information centre in Dhaka. The United Nations information centre in Kathmandu helped the United Nations country team to create a memorial plaque on the United Nations compound dedicated to fallen Nepalese peacekeepers.