A/RES/64/130. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2009

• Resolution Number: A/RES/64/130
• Year: 2009
• Session: 64th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/64/130

General Assembly Distr.: General

3 February 2010

Sixty-fourth session

Agenda item 61 (b)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2009

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/64/432)]

64/130. Policies and programmes involving youth

The General Assembly

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Recalling

the World Programme of Action for Youth, adopted by the General

Assembly in its resolutions 50/81 of 14 December 1995 and 62/126 of 18 December

2007,

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Recalling also

that, in its resolution 62/126, the General Assembly requested

the Secretary-General to report to the Assembly at its sixty-fourth session, through

the Commission for Social Development at its forty-seventh session, on the

implementation of eleven of the fifteen priority areas of the World Programme of

Action for Youth, namely armed conflict, drug abuse, environment, girls and young

women, health, HIV/AIDS, information and communications technology,

intergenerational issues, juvenile delinquency, leisure-time activities and youth

participation in society and decision-making,

Emphasizing

that all fifteen priority areas of the World Programme of Action

for Youth are interrelated,

Stressing

the important role of effective sectoral and cross-sectoral national

youth policies, reflecting youth in all its diversity, as well as of international

cooperation in promoting the achievement of the internationally agreed development

goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,

Taking note

of the report of the Africa Commission entitled “Realizing the

potential of Africa’s youth”,

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which addresses ways to create employment for young

people through growth led by the private sector and improved competitiveness of

African economies,

Welcoming

the fifth World Youth Congress, to be held in Istanbul, Turkey,

European Capital of Culture 2010, from 31 July to 13 August 2010, and also

welcoming the initiative of the Government of Mexico to host a World Youth

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1 In paragraph 1 of its resolution 47/1, the Commission for Social Development reaffirmed the World

Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond and the Supplement thereto as a unified set

of guiding principles, to be referred to henceforth as the World Programme of Action for Youth.

2 Available from www.africacommission.um.dk.