Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing
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31. Requests the United Nations system to strengthen its capacity to support,
in an efficient and coordinated manner, national implementation of the Madrid Plan
of Action, where appropriate;
32. Recommends that the situation of older persons be taken into account in
the ongoing efforts to achieve the internationally agreed development goals,
including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration 4 and
considered in the discussions on the development agenda beyond 2015;
33. Notes the work of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing,
established by the General Assembly in paragraph 28 of resolution 65/182, and
recognizes the positive contributions of Member States, as well as relevant bodies
and organizations of the United Nations, intergovernmental and relevant
non-governmental organizations, national human rights institutions and invited
panellists, during the first three working sessions of the Working Group;
34. Invites States and relevant bodies and organizations of the United
Nations system, including relevant human rights mandate holders and treaty bodies
and the regional commissions, as well as intergovernmental and relevant
non-governmental organizations with an interest in the matter, to continue to make
contributions to the work entrusted to the Working Group, as appropriate;
35. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide all necessary
support to the Working Group, within existing resources, for organizing, in 2013, a
fourth working session;
36. Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at
its sixty-eighth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution.
60th plenary meeting
20 December 2012
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