A/RES/54/24 Page 5 17. Requests the Commission for Social Development, at its thirty-eighth session, to adopt a recommendation on the desirability and feasibility of convening a second World Assembly on Ageing in 2002, devoted to reviewing the outcome of the First World Assembly as well as to considering a long-term strategy on ageing in the context of a society for all ages, and to report on this issue to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session through the Economic and Social Council; 18. Takes note with appreciation of the offer by the Government of Spain to host a second World Assembly on Ageing in 2002; 19. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session on the implementation of the present resolution under an item entitled “Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons”. 51st plenary meeting 10 November 1999