A/RES/73/294 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 24 May 2019 Seventy-third session Agenda item 29 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 May 2019 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.86 and A/73/L.86/Add.1)] 73/294. Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women The General Assembly, Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 2018/9 of 12 June 2018, Recognizing the significance of the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in September 1995, Recalling that the Council, in its resolution 2016/3 of 2 June 2016, requested the Commission on the Status of Women, in order to achieve concrete results in each review cycle, to consider and make a recommendation at its sixty-second session on how best to utilize the year 2020, on the occasion of the twenty -fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, so as to accelerate the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, 1. Decides, in order to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, so as to accelerate the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, to convene a one -day high-level meeting of the General Assembly in the margins of the general debate of the Assembly at its seventy-fifth session, and that the outcome of the high-level meeting shall take the form of a Chair’s summary; 2. Recommends that the President of the General Assembly conduct consultations to finalize the organizational arrangements for the high-level meeting of the Assembly. 83rd plenary meeting 22 May 2019 19-08473 (E) 290519 *1908473*

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