A/RES/63/152. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2008

• Resolution Number: A/RES/63/152
• Year: 2008
• Session: 63rd
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/63/152

General Assembly Distr.: General

11 February 2009

Sixty-third session

Agenda item 55 (a)

08-47991

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2008

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/63/424)]

63/152. Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for

Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special

session of the General Assembly

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

the World Summit for Social Development, held at Copenhagen

from 6 to 12 March 1995, and the twenty-fourth special session of the General

Assembly entitled “World Summit for Social Development and beyond: achieving

social development for all in a globalizing world”, held at Geneva from 26 June to

1 July 2000,

Reaffirming

that the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the

Programme of Action

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1

and the further initiatives for social development adopted by

the General Assembly at its twenty-fourth special session,

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2

as well as a continued

global dialogue on social development issues, constitute the basic framework for the

promotion of social development for all at the national and international levels,

Recalling

the United Nations Millennium Declaration

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3

and the development

goals contained therein, as well as the commitments made at major United Nations

summits, conferences and special sessions, including the commitments made at the

2005 World Summit,

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4

Recalling also

its resolution 57/270 B of 23 June 2003 on the integrated and

coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United

Nations conferences and summits in the economic and social fields,

Recalling further

its resolution 60/209 of 22 December 2005 on the

implementation of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty

(1997–2006),

Noting with appreciation

the ministerial declaration adopted at the high-level

segment of the substantive session of 2006 of the Economic and Social Council, on

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1 Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations

publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.

2 Resolution S-24/2, annex.

3 See resolution 55/2.

4 See resolution 60/1.