United Nations General Assembly A/RES/60/35 Distr.: General 8 February 2006 Sixtieth session Agenda item 120 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 30 November 2005 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/60/L.26 and Add.1)] 60/35. Enhancing capacity-building in global public health The General Assembly, Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 1 adopted at the Millennium Summit of the United Nations, and the development goals contained therein, in particular the health-related development goals, and its resolutions 58/3 of 27 October 2003 and 59/27 of 23 November 2004, Recalling also the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 2 adopted by Heads of State and Government at the High-level Plenary Meeting of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly, held in New York from 14 to 16 September 2005, including the commitments on HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other health issues, Recognizing that health is central to the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including all those contained in the Millennium Declaration, and that such goals create an opportunity to position health as a core part of the development agenda and to raise political commitment and financial resources for the sector, Noting with concern the deleterious impact on humankind of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other major infectious diseases and epidemics, and the heavy disease burden borne by poor people, especially in developing countries, including the least developed countries, as well as countries with economies in transition, and in this regard noting with appreciation the work of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, its co-sponsoring agencies and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Also noting with concern the serious damage and loss of life caused by natural disasters and their negative impact on public health and health systems, Bearing in mind the fact that the fight against new and re-emerging diseases, such as the severe acute respiratory syndrome and a human influenza pandemic arising from avian influenza, is far from over, and in this regard welcoming the efforts of the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Organization for Animal Health in developing _______________ 1 2 05-48970 See resolution 55/2. See resolution 60/1.

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