A/RES/65/180
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Decides to convene a high-level meeting from 8 to 10 June 2011, which
will undertake a comprehensive review of the progress achieved in realizing the
Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS1 and the Political Declaration on
HIV/AIDS,2 including successes, best practices, lessons learned, obstacles and gaps,
challenges and opportunities, and recommendations to guide and monitor the
HIV/AIDS response beyond 2010, including concrete strategies for action, as well
as promote the continued commitment and engagement of leaders in a
comprehensive global response to HIV/AIDS;
Also decides that the organizational arrangements for the high-level
2.
meeting should be as follows:
(a) The high-level meeting shall comprise plenary meetings and up to five
thematic panel discussions;
(b) The opening plenary meeting shall feature statements by the President of
the General Assembly, the Secretary-General, the Executive Director of the Joint
United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, a person openly living with HIV and an
eminent person actively engaged in the response to HIV/AIDS;
(c) The Chairs of the panel discussions shall present summaries of the
discussions to the closing plenary meeting;
3.
Invites Member States and observers to be represented at the highest
level at the high-level meeting;
4.
Encourages Member States to include in their national delegations to the
high-level meeting parliamentarians, representatives of civil society, including
non-governmental organizations and organizations and networks representing
people living with HIV, women, young persons, orphans, community organizations,
faith-based organizations and the private sector;
Decides that the Holy See, in its capacity as Observer State, and
5.
Palestine, in its capacity as observer, shall participate in the high-level meeting;
6.
Invites the United Nations system, including programmes, funds,
specialized agencies and regional commissions, the Special Envoys of the
Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS and the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General to
Stop Tuberculosis, as well as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria, to participate in the high-level meeting, as appropriate, and urges them to
consider initiatives in support of the preparatory process and the meeting;
Encourages other stakeholders, including the International Drug
7.
Purchase Facility, UNITAID, and the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child
Health, to contribute, as appropriate, to the high-level meeting;
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meeting;
Invites the Inter-Parliamentary Union to contribute to the high-level
9.
Requests the President of the General Assembly to organize, no later than
in April 2011, an informal interactive civil society hearing with the active
participation of people living with HIV and broader civil society, and attended by
representatives of Member States, the Observer State and observers,
non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social
Council, invited civil society organizations and the private sector, as part of the
preparatory process for the high-level meeting;
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informal
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Decides that the President of the General Assembly shall preside over the
interactive hearing with representatives of non-governmental