United Nations
A/RES/56/117
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 January 2002
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 108
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/56/572)]
56/117. 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
Recalling further its resolution 54/120 of 17 December 1999, in which it took
note with appreciation of the Lisbon Declaration on Youth Policies and Programmes
adopted at the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth in 1998, 2
Welcoming the adoption of the Dakar Framework for Action at the World
Education Forum, 3
Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted by the heads of
State and Government on 8 September 2000, 4 and recognizing that the Declaration
includes important goals and targets pertaining to youth,
Recalling and reaffirming the commitments made at the major United Nations
conferences and summits since 1990 and their follow-up processes,
Noting in particular that, in the World Programme of Action, regional and
interregional conferences of ministers responsible for youth affairs in Africa, Asia,
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1
A/40/256, annex.
See WCMRY/1998/28, chap. I, resolution 1.
3
See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Final Report of the World
Education Forum, Dakar, Senegal, 26–28 April 2000 (Paris, 2000).
4
See resolution 55/2.
2
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