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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/261
16 May 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 49 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/54/L.83/Rev.1)]
54/261. Establishment of the list of speakers and organization of the round tables
for the Millennium Summit of the United Nations
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 53/202 of 17 December 1998, in which it decided, inter alia, to designate the
fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly “The Millennium Assembly of the United Nations” and to
convene, as an integral part of the Millennium Assembly, a Millennium Summit of the United Nations,
Recalling also its resolution 54/254 of 15 March 2000, in which it:
(a) Decided that the Millennium Summit should be held from 6 to 8 September 2000 in New York
under the overall theme “The role of the United Nations in the twenty-first century”,
(b) Decided that the Millennium Summit would be composed of plenary meetings and four interactive
round-table sessions, with each interactive session to be held in concurrence with a plenary meeting,
(c) Decided that, owing to the unique symbolic moment of the Millennium Summit, the country of the
President of the fifty-fourth session of the General Assembly and the country of the President of the fiftyfifth session of the Assembly would jointly preside over the Summit,
(d) Requested the President of the General Assembly to hold consultations with all Member States in
an open-ended process with a view to taking decisions on all outstanding issues relating to the Millennium
Summit, including its outcome,
Reiterating that a Millennium Summit would provide an opportunity to strengthen the role of the United
Nations in meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century,
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