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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/281
15 August 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 49 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/54/L.87)]
54/281. Organization of the Millennium Summit of the United Nations
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 53/202 of 17 December 1998, by 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,
(b) Decided also 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 further 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
fifty-fifth 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,
Recalling further its resolution 54/261 of 10 May 2000, in which it:
(a) Decided that the Millennium Summit shall consist of a total of six meetings, on the basis of two
meetings a day,
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