General Assembly

Distr. GENERAL  

9 November 1981

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                                               A/RES/36/17
                                               9 November 1981
                                               49th plenary meeting
 
         Channels of communication between the United Nations
                 and youth and youth organizations
 
         The General Assembly,
 
  Recalling its resolution 32/135 of 16 December 1977, in which it adopted
guidelines for the improvement of the channels of communication between the
United Nations and youth and youth organizations,
 
  Recalling its resolution 35/139 of 11 December 1980, in which it requested
the Secretary-General, taking into account the views expressed by Governments,
to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session, for adoption,
proposals for additional guidelines, consistent with the guidelines already
adopted in its resolution 32/135 and on the basis of the draft additional
guidelines contained in the annex to its resolution 34/163 of 17 December
1979, as well as the suggestions of the Secretary-General in his reports to
the Assembly at its thirty-third, thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth sessions,
 
  Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 1980/25 of 2 May 1980
concerning co-ordination and information in the field of youth,
 
  Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General of 10 September 1981,
 
  Nothing with appreciation that the report of the Advisory Committee for the
International Youth Year contains useful proposals for the improvement of
channels of communication between the United Nations and youth and youth
organizations,
 
  Convinced of the need to improve the efforts of the United Nations and the
specialized agencies with regard to the participation of youth in achieving
the objectives of the Charter of the United Nations,
 
  Equally convinced of the valuable contributions that youth can make in
promoting co-operation among States and in implementing the new international
economic order and the International Development Strategy for the Third United
Nations Development Decade,
 
  Taking note also of the valuable contribution that the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization can make in the improvement
of channels of communication between the United Nations and youth and youth
organizations,
 
  Bearing in mind the importance of the existence of channels of communication
between the United Nations and youth and youth organizations for the proper
information of youth and youth organizations and their effective participation
in the United Nations and specialized agencies at the national, regional and
international levels,
 
  Convinced that the existence and the proper functioning of channels of
communication between the United Nations and youth organizations form a basic
prerequisite of the successful preparation, celebration and follow-up of the
International Youth Year: Participation, Development, Peace,
 
1.  Adopts the additional guidelines for the improvement of the channels of
communication between the United Nations and youth and youth organizations set
forth in the annex to the present resolution;
 
2.  Requests Member States, specialized agencies and other intergovernmental
organizations to implement these additional guidelines, together with the
guidelines adopted in General Assembly resolution 32/135, in co-operation with
youth organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social
Council and with other youth organizations concerned;
 
3.  Requests the Advisory Committee for the International Youth Year to
promote the implementation of the additional guidelines, together with the
guidelines adopted in resolution 32/135, during the preparation for and
celebration of the International Youth Year:  Participation, Development,
Peace;
 
4.  Requests the Secretary-General, on the basis of the reports of Member
States, specialized agencies and other intergovernmental organizations as well
as non-governmental youth organizations, to report to the General Assembly at
its thirty-seventh session on the implementation of the present resolution.
 
                                   ANNEX
Additional guidelines for the improvement of the channels of communication
between the United Nations and youth and youth organizations
 
                            A.  NATIONAL
1.  Attention should be given to the expansion of advisory services on youth
activities provided by the United Nations to Governments at their request.
 
2.  Governments should consider the inclusion of youth representatives in
their national delegations to the General Assembly and to other relevant
United Nations meetings.
 
                            B.  REGIONAL
 
3.  The regional commissions should review their relationships with regional
non-governmental youth organizations in order to facilitate co-operation with
and among such organizations.
 
4.  The regional commissions should pay special attention to the question of
the active participation of youth in the process of development and should
consider the need to co-operate closely with the international programmes of
the International Labour Organisation, the United Nations Development
Programme and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization for the provision of services for and by youth with regard to
employment.
 
5.  In the context of paragraph 4 above, the Executive Secretaries of the
regional commissions, within their mandates, should consider the promotion and
co-ordination within their respective regions of all activities regarding the
integration and participation of youth in development.
 
6.   The regional commissions should consider the possibility of organizing
regional workshops on questions relating to youth.
 
7.   The regional commissions should, with the assistance of regional liaison
officers, strengthen their co-operation with youth organizations.
                          C.  INTERNATIONAL
 
8.   The Administrative Committee on Co-ordination should continue
arrangements for the promotion and co-ordination of activities in the field of
youth and the integration of those activities into the over-all programmes of
social and economic development. This could be done by, inter alia, regularly
including the item concerning youth in its agenda or convening ad hoc
interagency meetings on youth, or both.
 
9.   The practice of providing internships for youth should be expanded in
order to give a broad section of young people from all regions of the world
the opportunity of being acquainted with the United Nations and thereby
learning of its activities. Those internships should not be confined to United
Nations Headquarters.
 
10.  The Joint United Nations Information Committee should take into account
the views of youth organizations representative of all regions of the world on
all phases of production of United Nations publications of interest to youth
and ensure the broadest possible circulation of such publications.
 
11.  The Secretary-General should continue to strengthen and promote the
relationship with, and assistance to, the Geneva informal meetings of
international non-governmental youth organizations as an important channel of
communication between the United Nations and youth and youth organizations.