A/RES/73/340 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 16 September 2019 Seventy-third session Agenda item 29 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 12 September 2019 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.115)] 73/340. Scope, modalities, format and organization of the high-level meeting on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women The General Assembly, Recognizing the significance of the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in September 1995, Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted in 1995 at the Fourth World Conference on Women 1 and the outcome documents of its twentythird special session, 2 Recalling its resolution 73/294 of 22 May 2019, entitled “Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women”, in which it decided to convene a one-day high-level meeting of the General Assembly in the margins of the general debate at its seventy-fifth session in order to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, so as to accelerate the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, Recognizing that, through the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development3 and its Sustainable Development Goals in September 2015, Heads of State and Government confirmed that realizing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls will make a crucial contribution to progress across all the Goals and targets, Reiterating that the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special __________________ 1 2 3 19-15703 (E) Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II. Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex. Resolution 70/1. 180919 *1915703*

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