A/RES/63/192 United Nations Distr.: General 24 February 2009 General Assembly Sixty-third session Agenda item 64 (e) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2008 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/63/430/Add.5)] 63/192. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto The General Assembly, Recalling its previous relevant resolutions, the most recent of which was resolution 62/170 of 18 December 2007, as well as relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council, the Commission for Social Development and the Commission on Human Rights, Welcomes the entry into force of the Convention on the Rights of Persons 1. with Disabilities 1 and the Optional Protocol thereto 2 on 3 May 2008; 0F 1F Also welcomes the fact that, since the opening for signature of the 2. Convention and the Optional Protocol on 30 March 2007, one hundred and thirty-seven States have already signed and forty-five States have ratified the Convention and eighty States have signed and twenty-seven States have ratified the Optional Protocol, and that one regional integration organization has signed the Convention; Calls upon those States that have not yet done so to consider signing and 3. ratifying the Convention and the Optional Protocol as a matter of priority; Welcomes the holding of the first session of the Conference of States 4. Parties to the Convention on 31 October and 3 November 2008, and the establishment of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; 5. Also welcomes the report of the Secretary-General; 3 2F Further welcomes the Joint Statement of Commitment to the Convention 6. of the Inter-Agency Support Group on the Convention; 4 3F Invites the Secretary-General to intensify efforts to assist States to 7. become parties to the Convention and the Optional Protocol, including by providing assistance with a view to achieving universal adherence; _______________ 1 Resolution 61/106, annex I. Ibid., annex II. 3 A/63/264 and Corr.1. 4 Available from www.un.org/disabilities/documents/iasg/soc.pdf. 2 08-48231

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