A/RES/73/294
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
24 May 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 29
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 22 May 2019
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.86 and A/73/L.86/Add.1)]
73/294.
Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference
on Women
The General Assembly,
Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 2018/9 of 12 June 2018,
Recognizing the significance of the Fourth World Conference on Women, held
in Beijing in September 1995,
Recalling that the Council, in its resolution 2016/3 of 2 June 2016, requested
the Commission on the Status of Women, in order to achieve concrete results in each
review cycle, to consider and make a recommendation at its sixty-second session on
how best to utilize the year 2020, on the occasion of the twenty -fifth anniversary of
the Fourth World Conference on Women, so as to accelerate the realization of gender
equality and the empowerment of women and girls,
1.
Decides, in order to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth
World Conference on Women, so as to accelerate the realization of gender equality
and the empowerment of all women and girls, to convene a one -day high-level
meeting of the General Assembly in the margins of the general debate of the Assembly
at its seventy-fifth session, and that the outcome of the high-level meeting shall take
the form of a Chair’s summary;
2.
Recommends that the President of the General Assembly conduct
consultations to finalize the organizational arrangements for the high-level meeting
of the Assembly.
83rd plenary meeting
22 May 2019
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