It also invites the UNESCO General Conference to propose that a one-minute silence be observed in newsrooms worldwide on World Press Freedom Day (3 May) to honour the journalists killed each year.
Before the start, the RDS crowd impeccably observed a minute's silence for one of Irish rugby's favourite sons, Moss Keane who died after a long illness on Tuesday.
It doesn't seem much to ask that other journalists -- and why not also political leaders and willing members of the public -- should stop for a minute's silence on one day each year, May the third, to pay tribute and reflect on the courage of those who have died for our right to know.
On Tuesday May 4th, everyone working in the Reuters newsroom in one of the skyscrapers in London's Canary Wharf observed a minute's silence to remember journalists killed in the pursuit of their profession.