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, 0F 1F 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 2F 3F 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 _______________ 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. 08-47991

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