A/RES/54/149. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 1999

• Resolution Number: A/RES/54/149
• Year: 1999
• Session: 54th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

1 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1999, Supplement No. 3 (E/1999/23), chap. II,

sect A.

2 Resolution 44/25, annex.

3 A/45/625, annex.

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A/RES/54/149

25 February 2000

Fifty-fourth session

Agenda item 112

RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/54/601)]

54/149. The rights of the child

The General Assembly,

Recalling its resolutions 53/127 and 53/128 of 9 December 1998, and taking note of Commission on

Human Rights resolution 1999/80 of 28 April 1999,1

Bearing in mind the Convention on the Rights of the Child,2 emphasizing that the provisions of the

Convention and other relevant human rights instruments must constitute the standard in the promotion and

protection of the rights of the child, and reaffirming that the best interest of the child shall be the primary

consideration in all actions concerning children,

Reaffirming the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children and the

Plan of Action for Implementing the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of

Children in the 1990s adopted by the World Summit for Children, held in New York on 29 and 30 September

1990,3 notably the solemn commitment to give high priority to the rights of children, to their survival and

to their protection and development, and reaffirming also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action