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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/50/161
1 March 1996
Fiftieth session
Agenda item 161
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/50/L.66 and Add.1)]
50/161.
Implementation of the outcome of the World
Summit for Social Development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 46/139 of 17 December 1991, 47/92 of
16 December 1992 and 48/100 of 20 December 1993,
Recalling also Economic and Social Council decision 1991/230 of
30 May 1991, resolutions 1992/27 of 30 July 1992 and 1995/60 of 28 July 1995,
and agreed conclusions 1995/1 of 28 July 1995, 1/
Having considered the report of the World Summit for Social Development,
held at Copenhagen from 6 to 12 March 1995, 2/
Expressing its profound gratitude to the Government and people of
Denmark for the hospitality extended to all participants at the Summit and for
the facilities, staff and services placed at their disposal,
Expressing its satisfaction that for the first time in history, at the
invitation of the United Nations, heads of State and Government gathered at
Copenhagen to recognize the significance of social development and human wellbeing for all and to give to those goals the highest priority both now and
into the twenty-first century by reaching a successful conclusion and adopting
the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and Programme of Action of
the World Summit for Social Development, 3/
1/
A/50/3, chap. III, para. 22.
2/
A/CONF.166/9.
3/
Ibid., chap. I, resolution 1.
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