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GENERAL
A/RES/53/28
5 January 1999
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 37
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/53/L.34 and Add.1)]
53/28.
Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 46/139 of 17 December 1991, 47/92 of 16 December 1992, 48/100 of
20 December 1993, 50/161 of 22 December 1995, 50/227 of 24 May 1996, 51/202 of 17 December 1996
and 52/25 of 26 November 1997,
Recalling also Economic and Social Council decision 1991/230 of 30 May 1991, resolutions 1992/27
of 30 July 1992, 1995/60 of 28 July 1995, 1996/7 of 22 July 1996, 1996/36 of 26 July 1996, 1997/56 of
23 July 1997 and 1998/44 and 1998/46 of 31 July 1998 and agreed conclusions 1995/1 of 28 July 1995,
1996/1 of 26 July 1996 and 1997/1 of 25 July 1997,
1. Reaffirms the commitments adopted by heads of State and Government at the World Summit for
Social Development, contained in the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development1 and the
Programme of Action,2 and their pledge to give the highest priority to national, regional and international
policies and actions for the promotion of social progress, social justice, the betterment of the human
condition and social integration, based on full participation by all;
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, annex I.
2
Ibid., annex II.
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