A/RES/61/20. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2006

• Year: 2006
• Resolution Number: A/RES/61/20
• Session: 61st
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/61/20

General Assembly Distr.: General

30 November 2006

Sixty-first session

Agenda item 58

06-49563

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 28 November 2006

[on the report of the Second Committee (A/61/427)]

61/20. Commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the

operations of the United Nations Children’s Fund

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolutions 57 (I) of 11 December 1946, by which it established

the International Children’s Emergency Fund, 417 (V) of 1 December 1950, by

which it affirmed the Fund’s decision to devote a greater share of its resources to

programmes outside Europe, 802 (VIII) of 6 October 1953, by which it changed the

name of the organization to the United Nations Children’s Fund and removed the

time limits from its mandate, 1391 (XIV) of 20 November 1959, in which it saw aid

provided by the Fund as a practical way to carry out the aims proclaimed in the

Declaration of the Rights of the Child,

1

and 2057 (XX) of 16 December 1965, in

which it applauded the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1965 to the United

Nations Children’s Fund,

Recalling also

its resolutions 2855 (XXVI) of 20 December 1971, in which it

commended the Fund for its very substantial and significant achievements during its

twenty-five years of operation, and 51/192 of 16 December 1996, in which it

recognized the important contribution of the Fund in promoting the survival,

development and protection of children during its first fifty years of operation,

Recalling further

its resolutions 33/83 of 15 December 1978 on the

International Year of the Child, 44/25 of 20 November 1989 on the Convention on

the Rights of the Child, 45/217 of 21 December 1990 on the World Summit for

Children and S-27/2 of 10 May 2002 in which it adopted the document entitled “A

world fit for children”, annexed to that resolution,

1.

Congratulates

the United Nations Children’s Fund on the occasion of its

sixtieth anniversary;

2.

Commends

the United Nations Children’s Fund for the substantial

assistance it has provided to programme countries in achieving the Millennium

Development Goals and other agreed development goals in the interest of children;

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1 See resolution 1386 (XIV).