A/RES/70/228
Organization of the 2016 High-level Meeting on HIV/AIDS
and emphasizing its interlinkages with the other goals and targets of the 2030
Agenda,
Encouraging all relevant United Nations entities to actively contribute to the
proceedings of the high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS, and taking note of Human
Rights Council resolution 30/8 of 1 October 2015 on the contribution of the Council
to the high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS in 2016, 10
Recalling its decision 68/555 of 30 June 2014 to convene a high-level meeting
on HIV/AIDS in 2016 and to determine the modalities and organizational
arrangements for such a meeting by December 2015,
1.
Decides to convene a high-level meeting from 8 to 10 June 2016, which
will undertake a comprehensive review of the progress achieved in realizing the
Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS 1 and the Political Declarations on
HIV/AIDS of 2006,2 and 2011, 3 including successes, best practices, lessons learned,
obstacles and gaps, challenges and opportunities, including with regard to
partnership and cooperation, and recommendations to guide and monitor the
HIV/AIDS response beyond 2015, including concrete strategies for action to end the
AIDS epidemic by 2030 as well as to promote the continued commitment and
engagement of leaders to accelerate a comprehensive universal and integrated
response to HIV/AIDS;
2.
Also decides that the organizational arrangements for the high-level
meeting should be as follows:
(a) The high-level meeting will comprise plenary meetings and up to five
thematic panel discussions;
(b) The opening plenary meeting will feature statements by the President of
the General Assembly, the Secretary-General, the Executive Director of the Joint
United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, a person openly living with HIV and an
eminent person actively engaged in the response to HIV/AIDS;
(c) The chairs of the panel discussions will present summaries of the
discussions to the General Assembly at its closing plenary meeting;
3.
Invites Member and observer States and observers to be represented at
the highest level at the high-level meeting;
4.
Encourages Member States to include in their national delegations to the
high-level meeting representatives such as parliamentarians, mayors of cities
significantly affected by HIV/AIDS, representatives of civil society, including
non-governmental organizations and organizations and networks representing
people living with HIV, women, adolescents and young persons, orphans, migrants,
community organizations and faith-based organizations and the private sector
5.
Invites the United Nations system, including programmes, funds,
specialized agencies and regional commissions, the Special Envoys of the
Secretary-General on HIV/AIDS and the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General to
Stop Tuberculosis, as well as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria, to participate in the high-level meeting, as appropriate, and urges them to
consider initiatives in support of the preparatory process and the meeting;
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/70/53/Add.1),
sect. II.
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