A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/54/262 16 June 2000 Fifty-fourth session Agenda item 106 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [without reference to a Main Committee (A/54/L.85)] 54/262. Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing The General Assembly, Recalling the World Assembly on Ageing, held at Vienna in 1982, which adopted the International Plan of Action on Ageing,1 Reaffirming the importance of the United Nations Principles for Older Persons, as adopted by its resolution 46/91 of 16 December 1991, Recalling its resolution 54/24 of 10 November 1999 and previous resolutions on ageing and the International Year of Older Persons, Acknowledging the initiatives undertaken and the momentum generated, at all levels, towards addressing the challenge of ageing and the concerns and contributions of ageing and older persons by the celebration of the International Year of Older Persons, and convinced of the necessity of ensuring an action-oriented follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons with a view to sustaining that momentum, 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. 00 47214 /...