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Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second
World Assembly on Ageing
Date of
consideration:
3-5 October 2005
Third
Committee report (59th
session):
A/59/493
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Document:
A/60/151 [F]
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Report of the
Secretary General on the follow-up to the Second World Assembly on
Ageing
A/60/377-E/2005/92
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Identical letters
dated 24 August 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Qatar to
the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, the
President of the General Assembly and the President of the
Economic and Social Council
Summary:
At its
fifty-fourth session, in 1999, the General Assembly entrusted
the Commission for Social Development with the revision of the
International Plan of Action on Ageing and the elaboration of
a long-term strategy on ageing, based on new developments
since 1982 (resolution 54/24). At its resumed fifty-fourth
session, in May 2000, the Assembly decided to convene the
Second World Assembly on Ageing in 2002, on the occasion of
the twentieth anniversary of the First World Assembly on
Ageing held at Vienna (resolution 54/262).
At its
fifty-seventh session, in 2002, the General Assembly welcomed
the report of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, held in
Madrid from 8 to 12 April 2002, and endorsed the Political
Declaration and the Madrid International Plan of Action on
Ageing (resolution 57/167).
At its
fifty-eighth session, the General Assembly, inter alia, took
note of the road map for the implementation of the Madrid
International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002 (see A/58/160);
and invited Member States and the organizations and bodies of
the United Nations system to incorporate ageing, as
appropriate, into actions to achieve the internationally
agreed development goals, including those contained in the
United Nations Millennium Declaration (resolution 58/134).
At its
fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly called upon
Governments and the agencies and organizations of the United
Nations system, within their mandates, and encouraged the
non-governmental community, to ensure that the challenges of
population ageing and the concerns of older persons were
adequately incorporated into their programmes and projects;
invited them to take into account the needs and concerns of
older persons in decision-making at all levels; stressed the
need for additional capacity-building at the national level in
order to promote and facilitate the implementation of the
Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002; and
requested the Secretary-General to report to it at its
sixtieth session on the implementation of the resolution
(resolution
59/150).
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