United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/58/208
Distr.: General
13 February 2004
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 93 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2003
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/58/483/Add.3)]
58/208. International migration and development
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Programme of Action of the International Conference on
Population and Development adopted at Cairo, 1 in particular chapter X on
international migration, and the key actions for the further implementation of the
Programme of Action, set out in the annex to General Assembly resolution S-21/2 of
2 July 1999, in particular section II.C on international migration, as well as the
relevant provisions contained in the Copenhagen Declaration on Social
Development, 2 the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social
Development, 3 the Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on
Women 4 and the outcome documents of the twenty-fourth 5 and twenty-fifth 6 special
sessions of the General Assembly,
Recalling also its resolutions 49/127 of 19 December 1994, 50/123 of
20 December 1995, 52/189 of 18 December 1997, 54/212 of 22 December 1999 and
56/203 of 21 December 2001 on international migration and development, as well as
Economic and Social Council decision 1995/313 of 27 July 1995,
Recalling further 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,
Reaffirming the obligations of all States to promote and protect all human
rights and fundamental freedoms, reaffirming also the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, 7 and recalling the International Convention on the Elimination of All
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1
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5-13 September 1994
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
2
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, annex I.
3
Ibid., annex II.
4
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.
5
Resolution S-24/2, annex.
6
Resolution S-25/2, annex.
7
Resolution 217 A (III).
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