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General Assembly
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GENERAL
A/RES/54/120
20 January 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 106
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/54/595)]
54/120. Policies and programmes involving youth
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 50/81 of 14 December 1995, by which it adopted the World Programme of
Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond, annexed thereto, as an integral part of that resolution,
Recalling also its resolutions 32/135 of 16 December 1977 and 36/17 of 9 November 1981, by which
it adopted guidelines for the improvement of the channels of communication between the United Nations and
youth and youth organizations, and 40/14 of 18 November 1985, entitled “International Youth Year:
Participation, Development, Peace”, by which it endorsed the guidelines for further planning and suitable
follow-up in the field of youth as contained in the report of the Advisory Committee for the International
Youth Year on its fourth session, held at Vienna from 25 March to 3 April 1985,1
Noting especially that, according to paragraph 123 of the Programme of Action, current regional and
interregional conferences of ministers responsible for youth affairs in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America
and the Caribbean and Western Asia were invited to intensify cooperation among each other and to consider
meeting regularly at the international level under the aegis of the United Nations to provide an effective
forum for a focused global dialogue on youth-related issues,
Noting that, in paragraph 124 of the Programme of Action, youth-related bodies and organizations of
the United Nations system were invited to cooperate with the above-mentioned conferences,
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A/40/256, annex.
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