United Nations A/RES/56/222 General Assembly Distr.: General 10 January 2002 Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 26 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [without reference to a Main Committee (A/56/L.7)] 56/222. Special session of the General Assembly on children The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 55/26 of 20 November 2000, in which it decided to convene the special session of the General Assembly for follow-up to the World Summit for Children from 19 to 21 September 2001, and to refer to it as the “special session on children”, Recalling also its decision 56/401 of 12 September 2001, by which it decided to postpone the special session on children until a date to be decided by the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session, 1. Decides to convene the special session of the General Assembly on children from 8 to 10 May 2002; 2. Decides also to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session the item entitled “Follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children”. 92nd plenary meeting 24 December 2001 01 49424