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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/24
2 February 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 106
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/54/L.6/Rev.1 and Add.1)]
54/24.
Follow-up to the International Year of Older Pe rsons: a society for
all ages
The General Assembly,
Recalling the World Assembly on Ageing, held in Vienna in 1982, which adopted the International Plan
of Action on Ageing,1
Recalling also the International Conference on Ageing, which it convened on 15 and 16 October 1992
on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the International Plan of Action on Ageing, and
which, inter alia, recommended the observance of the International Year of Older Persons in 1999,
Recalling further its resolution 53/109 of 9 December 1998 and previous resolutions on ageing and the
International Year of Older Persons,
Reaffirming the importance of the United Nations Principles for Older Persons, as adopted by its
resolution 46/91 of 16 December 1991,
1
See Report of the World Assembly on Ageing, Vienna, 26 July–6 August 1982 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.82.I.16), chap. VI, sect. A.
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