United Nations
A/RES/58/126
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 January 2004
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 55
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2003
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/58/L.49/Rev.1)]
58/126. Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous resolutions relating to the revitalization of its work, 1
Aware of the need to enhance its authority and role and to improve its working
methods,
Decides to adopt the text contained in the annex to the present resolution.
76th plenary meeting
19 December 2003
Annex
A.
Enhancing the authority and role of the General Assembly
In order to enhance the authority and role of the General Assembly, it is
decided that:
1.
Member States reaffirm the relevant provisions of the Charter of the United
Nations and the United Nations Millennium Declaration 2 on the central position of
the General Assembly.
2.
The Security Council is invited to submit periodically, in accordance with
Article 24 of the Charter, special subject-oriented reports to the General Assembly
for its consideration on issues of current international concern.
3.
The Security Council is invited to continue with initiatives to improve the
quality of its annual report to the General Assembly, mandated by Article 24,
paragraph 3, of the Charter, in order to provide the Assembly with a substantive,
analytical and material account of its work, in accordance with resolution 51/193.
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1
Resolutions 46/77 of 12 December 1991, 47/233 of 17 August 1993, 48/264 of 29 July 1994, 51/193 of
17 December 1996, 51/241 of 31 July 1997, 52/163 of 15 December 1997, 55/14 of
3 November 2000, 55/285 of 7 September 2001, 56/509 of 8 July 2002, 57/300 of 20 December 2002 and
57/301 of 13 March 2003.
2
See resolution 55/2.
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