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UNITED
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General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/231
17 June 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 106
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/52/L.74)]
52/231. 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, in particular resolution 52/100 of 12 December 1997, on the follow-up to the Fourth
World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action, as
well as agreed conclusions and relevant resolutions of the Commission on the Status of Women and the Economic
and Social Council on the follow-up to the Conference,
Reaffirming the commitments made in the Beijing Declaration1 and the Platform for Action,2
1. Decides that the high-level plenary review to appraise and assess the progress achieved in the
implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women,3 and the Platform for
Action five years after its adoption, and to consider further actions and initiatives shall be held as a special session
of the General Assembly for five days, from 5 to 9 June 2000;
2. Also decides that the special session should reaffirm the commitment to the Platform for Action and
further focus, inter alia, on obstacles encountered in implementation as well as on strategies to overcome those
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 I.
2
Ibid., annex II.
3
Report of the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women:
Equality, Development and Peace, Nairobi, 15-26 July 1985 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.85.IV.10), chap. I, sect.
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