United Nations
A/RES/64/130
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 February 2010
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 61 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2009
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/64/432)]
64/130. Policies and programmes involving youth
The General Assembly,
Recalling the World Programme of Action for Youth, adopted by the General
Assembly in its resolutions 50/81 of 14 December 1995 and 62/126 of 18 December
2007, 1
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Recalling also that, in its resolution 62/126, the General Assembly requested
the Secretary-General to report to the Assembly at its sixty-fourth session, through
the Commission for Social Development at its forty-seventh session, on the
implementation of eleven of the fifteen priority areas of the World Programme of
Action for Youth, namely armed conflict, drug abuse, environment, girls and young
women, health, HIV/AIDS, information and communications technology,
intergenerational issues, juvenile delinquency, leisure-time activities and youth
participation in society and decision-making,
Emphasizing that all fifteen priority areas of the World Programme of Action
for Youth are interrelated,
Stressing the important role of effective sectoral and cross-sectoral national
youth policies, reflecting youth in all its diversity, as well as of international
cooperation in promoting the achievement of the internationally agreed development
goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,
Taking note of the report of the Africa Commission entitled “Realizing the
potential of Africa’s youth”, 2 which addresses ways to create employment for young
people through growth led by the private sector and improved competitiveness of
African economies,
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Welcoming the fifth World Youth Congress, to be held in Istanbul, Turkey,
European Capital of Culture 2010, from 31 July to 13 August 2010, and also
welcoming the initiative of the Government of Mexico to host a World Youth
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In paragraph 1 of its resolution 47/1, the Commission for Social Development reaffirmed the World
Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond and the Supplement thereto as a unified set
of guiding principles, to be referred to henceforth as the World Programme of Action for Youth.
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