United Nations
A/RES/62/126
General Assembly
Distr.: General
5 February 2008
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 62 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2007
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/62/432)]
62/126. Policies and programmes involving youth: youth in the
global economy – promoting youth participation in
social and economic development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 50/81 of 14 December 1995, by which it adopted the
World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond,
Recalling also its resolution 60/2 of 6 October 2005, in which it took note of
the three clusters presented in the “World Youth Report 2005”, 1 namely, youth in the
global economy, youth in civil society, and youth and their well-being, and
requested the Secretary-General to provide the General Assembly at its sixty-second
session, through the Commission for Social Development at its forty-fifth session,
with a comprehensive report on the implementation of the World Programme of
Action, including the definition of goals and targets, in one of the three clusters of
the World Programme of Action,
0F
Recalling further Economic and Social Council resolution 2007/27 of 26 July
2007, by which the Council recommended to the General Assembly the adoption of
the Supplement to the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and
Beyond,
Recalling Commission for Social Development resolution 45/2 of 16 February
2007, 2 in which the Commission requested the Secretary-General, in consultation
with organizations, programmes and specialized agencies of the United Nations
system, to identify goals and targets regarding the cluster on youth in the global
economy and to submit an addendum to the report of the Secretary-General on the
follow-up to the World Programme of Action 3 to the General Assembly at its
sixty-second session,
1F
2F
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1
A/60/61-E/2005/7.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2007, Supplement No. 6 (E/2007/26), chap. I.
sect. E.
3
A/62/61-E/2007/7.
2
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