United Nations A/RES/57/299 General Assembly Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 42 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [without reference to a Main Committee (A/57/L.67)] 57/299. Follow-up to the outcome of the twenty-sixth special session: implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS The General Assembly, Recognizing that the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) and the fulfilment of the targets set therein are integrally linked to the attainment of the development goals set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration,1 Recalling its resolution S-26/2 of 27 June 2001, entitled “Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS”, in which it decided to devote sufficient time and at least one full day of the annual session of the General Assembly to review and debate a report of the Secretary-General, Recognizing that 2003 represents the first year that the time-bound commitments set out in the Declaration of Commitment are due to be met, and that the other targets are to be met by 2005 and 2010, Taking into account the critical role of civil society at all levels in the response to HIV/AIDS, in particular people living with HIV/AIDS, 1. Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General on progress towards the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, 2 including the recommendations contained therein; 2. Decides to convene a day of high-level plenary meetings devoted to the follow-up to the outcome of its twenty-sixth special session and the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment, to be held immediately following the general debate at its fifty-eighth session on a date to be decided by the General Assembly during its fifty-seventh session; 3. Decides also that statements in the debate in the plenary meetings should not exceed five minutes each; _______________ 1 2 02 56124 See resolution 55/2. A/57/227 and Corr.1. Distr.: General 5 March 2003