A/RES/60/224
Recognizing the essential role played in the response to AIDS by civil society,
including national and international non-governmental organizations and
organizations and networks representing people living with HIV/AIDS, women,
men, young persons, girls and boys, orphans, community and faith-based
organizations, families and the private sector,
Decides to undertake on 31 May and 1 June 2006 a comprehensive
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review of the progress achieved in realizing the targets set out in the Declaration of
Commitment on HIV/AIDS and to convene on 2 June 2006 a high-level meeting
aimed at continuing the engagement of world leaders in a comprehensive global
response to HIV/AIDS;
Invites Member States and observers to be represented at the high-level
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meeting at the highest level;
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Decides that the organizational arrangements for the comprehensive
review should be as follows:
(a) The review meeting will comprise plenary meetings, an informal
interactive hearing with civil society, panel discussions and round tables;
(b) The opening plenary meeting will feature statements by the President of
the General Assembly, the Secretary-General, the Executive Director of the Joint
United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and a representative of civil society;
(c) An informal interactive civil society hearing will be chaired by the
President of the General Assembly or his representative and organized with the
active participation of people living with HIV/AIDS and broader civil society, and
will be attended by representatives of non-governmental organizations in
consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, invited civil society
organizations, the private sector, Member States and observers;
(d) In order to promote interactive and substantive discussions, participation
in each round table will be limited to a maximum of forty to forty-five participants,
including Member States, observers, representatives of entities of the United
Nations system, civil society organizations and other invitees, and their participation
will be limited to one round table; every effort will be made to ensure equitable
geographical representation, taking into account the importance of ensuring a mix of
countries in terms of size, HIV prevalence rates and levels of development; a
representative of each of the regional groups will chair each round table with
support from the co-sponsoring agencies of the Joint Programme; and between five
and ten representatives of accredited and invited civil society organizations will
participate in each round table, with due regard to equitable geographical
representation after accommodation of all Member States;
(e) The chairpersons of the round tables and the informal interactive civil
society hearing will present summaries of the discussions to the plenary meeting
scheduled for 1 June 2006;
Decides also that the organizational arrangements for the comprehensive
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review and the high-level meeting, including the identification of the civil society
representative to speak at the opening plenary meeting, the identification of themes
for the round tables, the assignment of participants to round tables, the finalization
of the panel discussions, the identification of chairpersons for the round tables and
the format of the informal interactive hearing, will be finalized by the President of
the General Assembly, with support from the Joint Programme and in consultation
with Member States;
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