United Nations
A/RES/60/135
General Assembly
Distr.: General
2 February 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 63
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2005
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/60/502 and Corr.1)]
60/135. Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 57/167 of 18 December 2002, in which it endorsed the
Political Declaration and the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, 1
its resolution 58/134 of 22 December 2003, in which it took note, inter alia, of the
road map for the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action, and its resolution
59/150 of 20 December 2004,
Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 2003/14 of 21 July
2003, in which the Council invited Governments, the United Nations system and
civil society to participate in a “bottom-up” approach to the review and appraisal of
the Madrid Plan of Action,
Recalling further Commission for Social Development resolution 42/1 of
13 February 2004 entitled “Modalities for the review and appraisal of the Madrid
International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002”, 2 in which the Commission decided
to undertake the review and appraisal of the Madrid Plan of Action every five years,
with each review and appraisal cycle to focus on one of the priority directions of the
Madrid Plan of Action,
Recognizing that in many parts of the world, awareness of the Madrid Plan of
Action remains limited or non-existent, which limits the scope of implementation
efforts,
Calls upon Governments, the organizations and bodies of the United
1.
Nations system and the non-governmental community to reinforce their advocacy
campaigns aimed at informing all major societal actors, including older persons and
their organizations, about the decisions taken at the Second World Assembly on
Ageing;
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1
Report of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid, 8–12 April 2002 (United Nations publication,
Sales No. E.02.IV.4), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
2
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2004, Supplement No. 6 (E/2004/26), chap. I,
sect. E.
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