United Nations General Assembly A/RES/55/46 Distr.: General 19 January 2001 Fifty-fifth session Agenda item 37 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [without reference to a Main Committee (A/55/L.40 and Add.1)] 55/46. Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the special session of the General Assembly in this regard The General Assembly, Recalling the World Summit for Social Development, held in Copenhagen from 6 to 12 March 1995, and the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly entitled “World Summit for Social Development and beyond: achieving social development for all in a globalizing world”, held in Geneva from 26 June to 1 July 2000, Stressing the importance of the outcome of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly which reviewed and assessed the implementation of the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development 1 and the Programme of Action 2 and adopted further actions and initiatives to implement the commitments made at the Summit, 3 Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration 4 and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: Gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, 5 1. Reaffirms the commitments made by heads of State and Government at the World Summit for Social Development, contained in the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development 1 and the Programme of Action,2 which established a new consensus to place people at the centre of the concerns for sustainable development and pledged to eradicate poverty, promote full and productive employment and foster social integration so as to achieve stable, safe and just societies for all, and the decisions on further action and initiatives to accelerate social development for all, adopted at the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly and contained in the further initiatives for social development;3 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. 3 Resolution S-24/2, annex. 4 See resolution 55/2. 5 Resolutions S-23/2 and S-23/3. 00 56215