United Nations A/RES/59/150 General Assembly Distr.: General 1 February 2005 Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 95 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2004 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/59/493)] 59/150. Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 57/167 of 18 December 2002, in which it endorsed the Political Declaration and the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, 1 as well as its resolution 58/134 of 22 December 2003, in which it took note, inter alia, of the road map for the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action, Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 2003/14 of 21 July 2003, in which the Council invited Governments, the United Nations system and civil society to participate in a “bottom-up” approach to the review and appraisal of the Madrid Plan of Action, Recalling further Commission for Social Development resolution 42/1 of 13 February 2004, entitled “Modalities for the review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002”, 2 in which the Commission decided to undertake a review and appraisal of the Madrid Plan of Action every five years, with each review and appraisal cycle to focus on one of the priority directions of the Madrid Plan of Action, Recommends that ongoing efforts to achieve the internationally agreed 1. development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 3 take into account the situation of older persons; 2. Calls upon Governments and the agencies and organizations of the United Nations system, within their mandates, and encourages the non-governmental community, to ensure that the challenges of population ageing and the concerns of older persons are adequately incorporated into their programmes and projects; _______________ 1 Report of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid, 8–12 April 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.IV.4), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II. 2 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2004, Supplement No. 6 (E/2004/26), chap. I, sect. E. 3 See resolution 55/2. 04-48526