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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social
Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the
General Assembly
Date of
consideration:
3-5 October 2005
Third
Committee report (59th
session):
A/59/491
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Documents:
A/60/80
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Report of
the Secretary-General on the implementation of the outcome of
the World Summit for Social Development and of the
twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly
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Letter dated 5
July 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the
United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
Summary:
At its
forty-seventh session, in 1992, the General Assembly decided
to convene a World Summit for Social Development at the level
of heads of State or Government (resolution 47/92). The Summit
was held at Copenhagen from 6 to 12 March 1995.
The item
entitled "Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit
for Social Development" was included in the agenda of the
fiftieth session of the General Assembly at the request of
Denmark (A/50/192). At the same session, the Assembly decided
to hold a special session of the General Assembly in 2000 for
an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the
outcome of the Summit and to consider further actions and
initiatives (resolution 50/161). The twenty-fourth special
session of the General Assembly, entitled "World Summit for
Social Development and beyond: achieving social development
for all in a globalizing world", was held at Geneva from
26 June to 1 July 2001.
The General
Assembly considered the item at its fifty-first to
fifty-eighth sessions (resolutions 51/202, 52/25, 53/28,
54/23, 55/46, 56/177, 57/163 and 58/130).
At its
fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly reaffirmed that the
Commission for Social Development would continue to have the
primary responsibility for follow-up to and review of the
further implementation of the World Summit for Social
Development and the further initiatives agreed upon at the
twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly;
recommended that the Commission reflect the outcome of its
review in a short declaration reaffirming the agreed
commitments and the need for continued implementation;
welcomed the decision by the Economic and Social Council, in
its resolution 2004/58, that the Commission should convene
high-level plenary meetings, and also welcomed the request of
the Council to the Chairman of the Commission to transmit the
outcome, through the Council, to the Assembly at its sixtieth
session, including to the high-level event of the Assembly on
the review of the United Nations Millennium Declaration in
2005; invited the Secretary-General, the Council, the
Commission and the entire United Nations system to continue to
give priority attention to the commitments set out in the
Copenhagen Declaration and the Programme of Action and to be
actively involved in their follow-up; and requested the
Secretary-General to submit a report on the question to the
Assembly at its sixtieth session (resolution
59/146).
At its
twenty-fourth special session, the General Assembly requested
the Economic and Social Council, through the Commission for
Social Development, to assess regularly the further
implementation of the outcome of the Summit and of the special
session. In that connection, at its forty-third session, held
from 9 to 18 February 2005, the Commission for Social
Development adopted the Declaration on its priority theme
"Review of further implementation of the World Summit for
Social Development and outcome of the twenty-fourth special
session of the General Assembly" (E/2005/26, chap. I) and
decided to transmit it to the Economic and Social Council for
its endorsement.
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