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25. Reiterates the need for additional capacity-building at the national level
in order to promote and facilitate further implementation of the Madrid Plan of
Action, as well as the results of its first review and appraisal cycle, and in that
connection encourages Governments to support the United Nations Trust Fund for
Ageing to enable the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat
to provide expanded assistance to countries, upon their request;
26. Requests the United Nations system to strengthen its capacity to support,
in an efficient and coordinated manner, national implementation of the Madrid Plan
of Action, where appropriate;
27. Recommends that ongoing efforts to achieve the internationally agreed
development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium
Declaration, 4 take into account the situation of older persons;
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28. Decides to establish an open-ended working group, open to all States
Members of the United Nations, for the purpose of strengthening the protection of
the human rights of older persons by considering the existing international
framework of the human rights of older persons and identifying possible gaps and
how best to address them, including by considering, as appropriate, the feasibility of
further instruments and measures, and requests the Secretary-General to provide all
necessary support within existing resources for the duration of its mandate;
29.
Also decides that the open-ended working group shall:
(a)
Meet at United Nations Headquarters in New York;
(b) Decide on its calendar and programme of work by consensus at an
organizational meeting early in 2011;
30. Invites States and relevant bodies and organizations of the United
Nations system, including relevant human rights mandate holders and treaty bodies
and the regional commissions, as well as intergovernmental and relevant
non-governmental organizations with an interest in the matter, to make contributions
to the work entrusted to the open-ended working group, as appropriate;
31. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixty-sixth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution,
including the situation of the rights of older persons in all regions of the world.
71st plenary meeting
21 December 2010
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See resolution 55/2.
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