A/RES/51/88 Page 2 Recalling the significance and the message of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993,2 Recalling also its decision 48/416 of 10 December 1993, in which it decided to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third session an item entitled "Fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights", Having considered the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,3 in particular section IX thereof entitled "1998: Human Rights Year", in which proposals to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary were made, including the convening of a ceremonial meeting of the General Assembly, and welcoming the intention of the High Commissioner to facilitate cooperation between various initiatives aimed at the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary, 1. Requests the United Nations continue to coordinate the preparations Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 in the Vienna Declaration and Programme up; High Commissioner for Human Rights to for the fiftieth anniversary of the bearing in mind the provisions set out of Action2 for evaluation and follow- 2. Invites Governments to review and assess the progress that has been made in the field of human rights since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to identify obstacles and ways in which they can be overcome to achieve progress in this area, to undertake additional efforts and to develop programmes of education and information, with a view to disseminating the text of the Declaration and arriving at a better understanding of the universal message; 3. Invites the human rights treaty bodies to give appropriate attention, within their mandates and methods of work, to the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration and to reflect on their possible contribution to the preparations; 4. Endorses the intention of the relevant United Nations organs and agencies, in the light of the purposes set forth in the Declaration , to make an assessment of and to put forward pertinent conclusions on the state of implementation and impact of existing international human rights instruments; 5. Calls upon the relevant United Nations organs and agencies, in coordination with the High Commissioner, to mark the anniversary by intensifying their own contributions to United Nations system-wide efforts to promote and protect human rights; 6. Invites non-governmental organizations and national institutions to participate fully in the preparations for the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration, to intensify their campaign for greater understanding and better 2 A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III. 3 A/51/36; see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 36. /...