Invites Member States to reinforce national committees as focal points for the UN Decade of Disabled Persons, to stimulate activities at the national level, to mobilize public opinion on behalf of the Decade, to participate in the implementation of disability projects with regard to the International Year of Disabled Persons and to assist in monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons; invites Member States to submit their replies to the questionnaire for the first round of monitoring and implementing the World Programme of Action to the Secretary-General as soon as possible for inclusion in his report on the evaluation of progress at mid-Decade, to be submitted to the General Assembly at the 42nd session; endorses the terms of reference proposed in the report of the Secretary-General for the UN Trust Fund for the International Year of Disabled Persons, henceforth to be called the Voluntary Fund for the UN Decade of Disabled Persons.

Adopted without vote, 96th plenary meeting

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Adopted at the 96th plenary meeting, 29 Nov. 1985.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 40th session, 17 September-18 December 1985, 28 April-9 May and 20 June 1986. - A/40/53. - 1986. - p. 203-204. - (GAOR, 40th sess., Suppl. no. 53).