A/RES/63/152
United Nations
Distr.: General
11 February 2009
General Assembly
Sixty-third session
Agenda item 55 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2008
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/63/424)]
63/152. Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for
Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special
session of the General Assembly
The General Assembly,
Recalling the World Summit for Social Development, held at Copenhagen
from 6 to 12 March 1995, and the twenty-fourth special session of the General
Assembly entitled “World Summit for Social Development and beyond: achieving
social development for all in a globalizing world”, held at Geneva from 26 June to
1 July 2000,
Reaffirming that the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the
Programme of Action 1 and the further initiatives for social development adopted by
the General Assembly at its twenty-fourth special session, 2 as well as a continued
global dialogue on social development issues, constitute the basic framework for the
promotion of social development for all at the national and international levels,
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Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration 3 and the development
goals contained therein, as well as the commitments made at major United Nations
summits, conferences and special sessions, including the commitments made at the
2005 World Summit, 4
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Recalling also its resolution 57/270 B of 23 June 2003 on the integrated and
coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United
Nations conferences and summits in the economic and social fields,
Recalling further its resolution 60/209 of 22 December 2005 on the
implementation of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty
(1997–2006),
Noting with appreciation the ministerial declaration adopted at the high-level
segment of the substantive session of 2006 of the Economic and Social Council, on
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1
Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
2
Resolution S-24/2, annex.
3
See resolution 55/2.
4
See resolution 60/1.
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