A/RES/60/135
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Recommends that ongoing efforts to achieve the internationally agreed
development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium
Declaration, 3 take into account the situation of older persons;
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Calls upon Governments and, within their mandates, the agencies and
organizations of the United Nations system, and encourages the non-governmental
community, to ensure that the challenges of population ageing and the concerns of
older persons are adequately incorporated into their programmes and projects;
Invites Member States and the organizations and bodies of the United
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Nations system to take into account the needs and concerns of older persons in
decision-making at all levels;
Stresses the need for additional capacity-building at the national level in
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order to promote and facilitate implementation of the Madrid International Plan of
Action on Ageing, 2002, 4 and in this connection encourages Governments to support
the United Nations Trust Fund for Ageing to enable the Department of Economic
and Social Affairs of the Secretariat to provide expanded assistance to countries,
upon their request;
Calls upon Governments to consult and utilize the Research Agenda on
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Ageing for the Twenty-First Century, adopted by the Valencia Forum in April 2002,
as a tool for strengthening national capacity on ageing for the implementation,
review and appraisal of the Madrid Plan of Action;
Invites Governments, intergovernmental organizations and non7.
governmental organizations to encourage and support comprehensive, diversified
and specialized research on ageing in all countries;
Invites the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council
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to integrate the issues of population and individual ageing into their work in order to
promote implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action;
Recommends that the Commission on the Status of Women continue to
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consider the situation of older women, in particular those who are most vulnerable,
including those living in rural areas;
10. Encourages those regional commissions that have not yet done so to
elaborate a regional strategy for the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action;
11. Takes note of Commission for Social Development resolution 42/1,2 and
in this context requests the Secretary-General to present his proposals for
conducting the review and appraisal exercise at the regional and global levels to the
Commission at its forty-fourth session;
12. Requests the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to
continue to strengthen the capacity of the focal points on ageing and to provide
them with adequate resources for further implementation of the Madrid Plan of
Action, in particular through appropriate mainstreaming action;
13. Stresses the importance of the collection of data and population statistics
disaggregated by age and sex on all aspects of policy formulation by all countries,
and encourages the relevant entities of the United Nations system to support
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See resolution 55/2.
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, annex II.
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