United Nations
A/RES/64/132
General Assembly
Distr.: General
5 February 2010
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 61 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2009
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/64/432)]
64/132. Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 57/167 of 18 December 2002, in which it endorsed the
Political Declaration 1 and the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, 2
its resolution 58/134 of 22 December 2003, in which it took note, inter alia, of the
road map for the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action, and its resolutions
60/135 of 16 December 2005, 61/142 of 19 December 2006, 62/130 of 18 December
2007 and 63/151 of 18 December 2008,
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Recognizing that, in many parts of the world, awareness of the Madrid Plan of
Action remains limited or non-existent, which limits the scope of implementation
efforts,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General, 3
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Encourages Governments to pay greater attention to building capacity to
eradicate poverty among older persons, in particular older women, by mainstreaming
ageing issues into poverty eradication strategies and national development plans,
and to include both ageing-specific policies and ageing-mainstreaming efforts in
their national strategies;
Encourages Member States to strengthen their efforts to develop national
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capacity to address their national implementation priorities identified during the
review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002,2
and invites Member States that have not done so to consider a step-by-step approach
to developing capacity that includes the setting of national priorities, the
strengthening of institutional mechanisms, research, data collection and analysis and
the training of necessary personnel in the field of ageing;
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1
Report of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid, 8–12 April 2002 (United Nations publication,
Sales No. E.02.IV.4), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I.
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Ibid., annex II.
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