General Assembly

Distr. GENERAL  

20 December 1993

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                                                   A/RES/48/98
                                                   85th plenary meeting
                                                   20 December 1993
 
         Implementation of the International Plan of Action on Ageing
 
      The General Assembly,
 
      Mindful of the growing concern of the international community with the
issues related to population and individual ageing,
 
      Noting with satisfaction the clear conceptual framework of the United
Nations programme on ageing, revealed in the United Nations Principles for
Older Persons, the global targets on ageing for the year 2001 and the
Proclamation on Ageing, to further the implementation of the International
Plan of Action on Ageing,
 
      Recalling that, in the Proclamation on Ageing, it decided to observe the
year 1999 as the International Year of Older Persons,
 
      Taking note of Economic and Social Council resolution 1993/22 of 27 July
1993, by which the Council invited Member States to strengthen their national
mechanisms on ageing, inter alia, to enable them to serve as national focal
points for the preparation and observance of the International Year of Older
Persons, 
 
      Noting the recent measures aimed at consolidating the social and
economic activities of the United Nations,
 
      1.    Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-
General on the third review and appraisal of the implementation of the
International Plan of Action on Ageing;
 
      2.    Endorses the recommendations contained in the report of the
Secretary-General, in the form of global and national targets on ageing for
the year 2001, aimed at streamlining the implementation of the Plan of Action
in its second decade;
 
      3.    Calls upon the Secretary-General to maintain the integrity and the
identity of the United Nations programme on ageing;
 
      4.    Commends the International Institute on Ageing on its training
programme and related activities, and invites national, regional and
international organizations to cooperate closely with the Institute;
 
      5.    Urges the United Nations, Member States and non-governmental
organizations to support the African Society of Gerontology in developing and
implementing a regional programme of activities on ageing;
 
      6.    Invites interested Member States, non-governmental organizations
and research centres to support the activities of the United Nations programme
on ageing, particularly research activities aimed at suggesting policy options
to enhance contributions by the elderly to development;
 
      7.    Invites Governments, non-governmental organizations and United
Nations organizations and bodies concerned with ageing to submit to the
Secretary-General their proposals for the preparations for and observance of
the International Year of Older Persons;
 
      8.    Calls upon the Secretary-General to draft a conceptual framework
of a programme for the preparation and observance of the International Year of
Older Persons and to submit it, through the Commission for Social Development
at its thirty-fourth session in 1995, to the General Assembly for
consideration at its fiftieth session in 1995.