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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/49/3
27 October 1994
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 12
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/49/L.5 and Add.1)]
49/3. Twenty-fifth anniversary of the operations of
the United Nations Population Fund
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 2211 (XXI) of 17 December 1966, in response to
which a trust fund, subsequently named the United Nations Fund for Population
Activities, was established in 1967 by the Secretary-General,
Noting that the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, renamed
in 1987 as the United Nations Population Fund, began operations in 1969,
Recalling also its resolutions 3019 (XXVII) of 18 December 1972, 31/170
of 21 December 1976, and 34/104 of 14 December 1979, in which it, inter alia,
recognized the leading role and effectiveness of the Fund in the United
Nations system in the population field and affirmed the Fund as a subsidiary
body of the General Assembly,
Reaffirming Economic and Social Council resolutions 1763 (LIV) of
18 May 1973 and 1986/7 of 21 May 1986 stating the aims and purposes of the
Fund,
1.
Congratulates the United Nations Population Fund on the occasion
of its twenty-fifth anniversary;
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