A/RES/56/228 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on preparations for the Second World Assembly on Ageing; 1 2. Recommends that the preparatory committee give due consideration to the period to be covered by the long-term strategy and revised plan of action on ageing to be adopted at the Second World Assembly; 3. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session on the full range of tasks of the United Nations programme on ageing of the Division for Social Policy and Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, with a view to ensuring, as a matter of urgency, that the programme can effectively fulfil its tasks, including those that might arise from the implementation of the outcome of the Second World Assembly; 4. Invites all relevant agencies and bodies of the United Nations system to coordinate better their response to the global ageing of populations and to integrate within their respective mandates their programmes and activities related to older persons, taking into account the importance of the perspective of older persons; 5. Invites the Second World Assembly to address, inter alia, the question of abuse of and discrimination against older persons; 6. Invites Member States, where appropriate, to consider extending the mandate of national committees or other mechanisms established on the occasion of the International Year of Older Persons in order to undertake national preparations for the Second World Assembly, and invites those Member States currently without such mechanisms to consider appropriate ways or mechanisms for their preparations for the Second World Assembly; 7. Invites the regional commissions, within their respective mandates, to explore the feasibility of undertaking regional activities with Member States, nongovernmental organizations and other relevant actors of civil society in their region to participate in and follow up the Second World Assembly; 8. Invites the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat to continue, in cooperation with the Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the host country, the information campaign for the Second World Assembly; 9. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session on the implementation of the present resolution. 92nd plenary meeting 24 December 2001 _______________ 1 2 A/56/152.