United Nations A/RES/55/26 General Assembly Distr.: General 9 January 2001 Fifty-fifth session Agenda item 42 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [without reference to a Main Committee (A/55/L.34/Rev.1)] 55/26. Preparations for the special session on children The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 45/217 of 21 December 1990, in which it welcomed the adoption by the World Summit for Children of the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children and Plan of Action for Implementing the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children in the 1990s, 1 51/186 of 16 December 1996, 53/193 of 15 December 1998 and 54/93 of 7 December 1999, Bearing in mind the nearly universal ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 2 Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration 3 and, in particular, the paragraphs relevant to the situation of children, Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General on the state of the preparations for the special session of the General Assembly in 2001 for follow-up to the World Summit for Children, 4 Taking note also of the reports of the Preparatory Committee for the Special Session on its organizational and first substantive sessions 5 and of the decisions contained therein, 1. Reaffirms the commitments adopted by the heads of State and Government at the World Summit for Children on 30 September 1990, as contained in the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children and Plan of Action for Implementing the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children in the 1990s,1 and their appeal to give every child a better future; 1 A/45/625, annex. Resolution 44/25, annex. 3 Resolution 55/2. 4 A/55/429. 5 A/55/43 (Parts I and II). For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No 43 (A/55/43). 2 00 56095