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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/11
18 November 1999
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 99 (h)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/54/L.18 and Add.1)]
54/11.
Thirtieth anniversary of the operations of the United Nations
Population Fund
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 2211 (XXI) of 17 December 1966, in response to which a trust fund,
subsequently named the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, was established in 1967 by the
Secretary-General,
Noting that the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, renamed in 1987 as the United Nations
Population Fund, began operations in 1969,
Recalling its resolutions 3019 (XXVII) of 18 December 1972, 31/170 of 21 December 1976 and
34/104 of 14 December 1979, in which it, inter alia, recognized the leading role and effectiveness of the
Fund in the United Nations system in the population field and affirmed the Fund as a subsidiary body of
the General Assembly,
Reaffirming Economic and Social Council resolutions 1763 (LIV) of 18 May 1973 and 1986/7 of
21 May 1986 stating the aims and purposes of the Fund,
1. Congratulates the United Nations Population Fund on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary
of its operations;
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