United Nations
A/RES/61/272
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 July 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 63 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 29 June 2007
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/61/L.63)]
61/272. Commemorative high-level plenary meeting devoted to the
follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Declaration and the Plan of Action contained in the final
document of the special session of the General Assembly on children, entitled “A
world fit for children”, 1 and recognizing that their implementation is a major
contribution to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and to
protecting the rights and promoting the well-being of children,
Recalling the provisions of the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 2 which reflect
the commitment of Member States to protect the rights and interests of children,
Acknowledging that the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3 the most
universally embraced human rights treaty in history, and the Optional Protocols
thereto, 4 contain a comprehensive set of international legal standards for the
protection and well-being of children,
Recalling its resolution 58/282 of 9 February 2004 devoted to the follow-up to
the outcome of the special session on children,
Recalling also its resolution 57/270 B of 23 June 2003 on the integrated and
coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United
Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields,
Bearing in mind that, by 2007, several of the time-bound and quantified
commitments set out in the Declaration and the Plan of Action should have been met
and that other targets are to be met by 2010 and 2015,
Decides to convene a commemorative high-level plenary meeting to
1.
evaluate progress made in the implementation of the Declaration and the Plan of
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1
Resolution S-27/2, annex.
See resolution 60/1.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
4
Ibid., vol. 2171, No. 27531; and ibid., vol. 2173, No. 27531.
2
06-51069