Invites all Member States to establish national committees in consultation with disabled persons and their organizations as focal points for the UN Decade of Disabled Persons; requests the Secretary-General to consider convening during the 2nd half of the Decade an interregional meeting of representatives of national committees for disabled persons with a view to enhancing the capabilities of such committees through an exchange of views and information; invites the Secretary-General and Member States to encourage real involvement of disabled persons in UN programmes and activities, including the provision of employment opportunities; requests the Secretary-General to consider alternative structures to ensure that the issue of disability is accorded high visibility and to develop the Disabled Persons Unit in the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs as a specialized facilitating agent engaging the available resources of the UN system and relevant networks outside the UN; calls upon the Member States, national committees, the UN system and non-governmental organizations to assist in a global information campaign to publicize the Decade through all appropriate means; requests the Secretary-General to administer donated funds, using them for projects under the present structure of the Voluntary Fund for the UN Decade of Disabled Persons, and to make new provisions in order to offer a selection of projects to donor countries that might be willing to finance a particular programme under the "Special Purpose Contributions"; invites Governments and NGOs to continue their contributions to the Voluntary Fund.

Adopted without vote, 85th meeting

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Adopted at the 85th plenary meeting, 30 Nov. 1987.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 42nd session, Volume 1, 15 September-21 December 1987. - A/42/49. 1988. - p. 185-187. - (GAOR, 42nd sess., Suppl. no. 49).