United Nations
A/RES/62/130
General Assembly
Distr.: General
29 January 2008
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 62 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2007
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/62/432)]
62/130. 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 and 61/142 of 19 December 2006,
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1F
Recalling also Commission for Social Development resolution 42/1 of
13 February 2004, 3 in which the Commission decided to undertake the review and
appraisal of the Madrid Plan of Action every five years,
2F
Mindful that, in its resolution 44/1 of 17 February 2006, 4 the Commission
decided to start the first global cycle of review and appraisal in 2007 at its fortyfifth session and to conclude it in 2008 at its forty-sixth session,
3F
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General, 5
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1.
Encourages Governments to pay greater attention to building capacity to
eradicate poverty among older persons, particularly 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 review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing,
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2.
Stresses that, in order to complement national development efforts,
enhanced international cooperation is essential to support developing countries in
implementing the Madrid Plan of Action, while recognizing the importance of
assistance and the provision of financial assistance;
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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.
2
Ibid., annex II.
3
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2004, Supplement No. 6 (E/2004/26), chap. I,
sect. E.
4
Ibid., 2006, Supplement No. 6 (E/2006/26), chap. I, sect. C.
5
A/62/131 and Corr.1.
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