98-03111 (E)
180298
* E/CN.6/1998/1.
United Nations
E/CN.6/1998/10
Economic and Social Council
Distr.: General
10 February 1998
Original: English
Commission on the Status of Women
Forty-second session
2-13 March 1998
Item 3 (a) of the provisional agenda*
Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women: review of
mainstreaming in organizations of the United Nations system
High-level plenary review in the year 2000
Note by the Secretariat
In its resolution 52/100, the General Assembly decided
The attention of the Commission is drawn to the report
to convene, in the year 2000, a high-level plenary review to
of the Secretary-General in accordance with resolution
appraise
and
assess
the
progress
achieved
in
the
52/100, contained in A/52/789, which will be before the
implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies
Commission.
for the Advancement of Women and the Beijing Platform for
Action five years after its adoption, and to consider further
actions and initiatives, and requested the Secretary-General,
with a view to ensuring participation at a high political level,
to explore in a report to the fifty-second session of the
General Assembly the possibility, among other options, of
convening the review (a) at the start of the fifty-fifth session
of the General Assembly, (b) within the framework of the
proposed millennium Assembly if agreed upon by the General
Assembly, (c) following the annual session of the Commission
on the Status of Women, or (d) as a special session of the
General Assembly. It requested the Commission on the
Status of Women to consider the report of the Secretary-
General requested above at its forty-second session, thus
enabling the General Assembly, through the Economic and
Social Council, to decide on this issue as soon as possible at
its fifty-second session.