Realizing the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities towards 2015 and beyond A/RES/67/140 Recalling further the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, 4 the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, 5 and the outcome document of the 2011 high-level plenary meeting of the Assembly on HIV and AIDS, entitled “Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying Our efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS”, 6 which contain references to the rights, participation, well-being and perspectives of persons with disabilities in development efforts, Gravely concerned that persons with disabilities continue to be subject to multiple and aggravated forms of discrimination and are still largely invisible in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Millennium Development Goals, and noting that, while progress has already been made by Governments, the international community and the United Nations system in mainstreaming disability as an integral part of the development agenda, major challenges do remain, Concerned that the continuing lack of reliable data and information on disability and the situation of persons with disabilities at the national, regional and global levels contributes to the invisibility of persons with disabilities in official statistics, presenting an obstacle to achieving disability-inclusive development planning and implementation, Stressing the importance of collecting and analysing reliable data on persons with disabilities following existing guidelines on disability statistics, 7 encouraging ongoing efforts to improve data collection in order to disaggregate data with regard to persons with disabilities, and underlining the need to have internationally comparable data to assess progress on disability-inclusive development policies, Welcomes the holding of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly, 1. at the level of Heads of State and Government, on 23 September 2013, with the overarching theme “The way forward: a disability-inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond”, in order to strengthen efforts to ensure accessibility for and inclusion of persons with disabilities in all aspects of development, and looks forward to the contribution its outcome document could make in mainstreaming the rights of persons with disabilities in the development agenda beyond 2015; Also welcomes the report of the Secretary-General entitled “Realization 2. of the Millennium Development Goals and internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities: a disability-inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond”, 8 and the recommendations contained therein; 3. Urges Member States, international and regional organizations, regional integration organizations and financial institutions to make a concerted effort to include persons with disabilities and integrate the principles of accessibility and inclusion in the monitoring and evaluation of the development goals; _______________ 4 Resolution 65/1. Resolution 66/288, annex. 6 Resolution 65/277, annex. 7 Such as the Guidelines and Principles for the Development of Disability Statistics (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.01.XVII.15) and the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.07.XVII.8) and their updates. 8 A/67/211. 5 2/3