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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/141
16 February 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 110
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/54/599 and Corr.1)]
54/141. Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full
implementation of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 52/100 of 12 December 1997, 52/231 of 4 June 1998 and 53/120 of 9 December
1998, in which it decided to convene a high-level plenary review as a special session of the General
Assembly, which will take place from 5 to 9 June 2000, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality,
development and peace for the twenty-first century”,
Recalling also its resolutions 52/93 and 52/97 of 12 December 1997, 53/116, 53/117 and 53/118 of
9 December 1998, and bearing in mind its resolution 54/4 of 6 October 1999,
Stressing the importance of the special session and the need for strong, sustained political will and
commitment at the national, regional and international levels towards achieving equality between women
and men, and, in this regard, reaffirming that the full implementation of the Platform for Action of the Fourth
World Conference on Women1 requires further action by all,
Reaffirming its decision that the special session will be undertaken on the basis of and with full respect
for the Platform for Action and that there will be no renegotiation of the existing agreements contained
therein,
1
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, annex II.
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