A/RES/58/134 into development policies for the attainment of internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 2 Aware that the lack of data disaggregated by age and sex is an impediment to the consideration of ageing issues and the situation of older persons at both the international and the national policy levels, 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General; 3 2. Also takes note of the road map for the implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, contained in the report of the Secretary-General; Invites Member States and the organizations and bodies of the United 3. Nations system to incorporate ageing, as appropriate, into actions to achieve the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration,2 in particular the goal on the eradication of poverty; 4. Stresses the need for action at the national and international levels to implement the Madrid Plan of Action, 4 including the need to set national and international priorities and to select appropriate approaches to ensure that countries achieve a society for all ages; Encourages the establishment of institutional linkages at the national 5. level between national machineries for the advancement of women and those governmental entities responsible for the development, implementation and coordination of ageing-related policies and programmes; Stresses that the role of civil society, including non-governmental 6. organizations, is important in supporting Governments in their implementation and assessment of and follow-up to the Madrid Plan of Action; Requests the Economic and Social Council to consider ageing when 7. elaborating its list of cross-sectoral thematic issues common to the outcomes of major United Nations conferences and summits for the establishment of the multi-year programme of work for the coordination segment of its substantive session; Requests the Commission for Social Development to integrate an ageing 8. perspective in its consideration of priority themes related to the follow-up to the World Summit for Social Development; Requests the Commission for Social Development and the Commission 9. on the Status of Women to further coordinate and collaborate through their respective bureaux on the issue of older women within the framework of their respective multi-year programmes of work; 10. Recalls, in this regard, its request to each functional commission of the Economic and Social Council to examine its methods of work in order to better pursue the implementation of the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits, recognizing that there is no need for a uniform approach since each _______________ 2 See resolution 55/2. A/58/160. 4 Report of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid, 8–12 April 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.IV.4), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. 3 2