Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
1997
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SymbolA/RES/52/25
TitleImplementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development
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Summary
Stresses that social development and the implementation of the Programme of Action of the Summit are primarily the responsibility of Governments; reiterates the call of the Summit for Governments to assess on a regular basis national progress towards implementing the outcome of the Summit; calls upon the international community to implement fully and effectively all initiatives that will contribute to a durable solution to the debt problems of developing countries, and reaffirms the need to make further progress towards the implementation of the recommendations of the World Summit for Social Development by the Bretton Woods institutions; reaffirms the need to continue to evaluate the impact of structural adjustment programmes by, inter alia, integrating the social dimensions involved; reaffirms the importance of agreeing on a mutual commitment between interested developed and developing country partners to allocate, on average, 20 per cent of official development assistance and 20 per cent of the national budget to basic social programmes; urges the continued involvement and support by the regional commissions in the promotion of the implementation of the objectives of the World Summit for Social Development at the regional and subregional levels, and reiterates its invitation to the commissions to convene on a biennial basis a meeting at a high political level to review the progress made towards implementing the outcome of the Summit; urges ECA to convene in the forthcoming year a regional meeting to evaluate the follow-up of the Summit in the African region; decides to establish a Preparatory Committee open to the participation of all States Members of UN and members of the specialized agencies, with the participation of observers in accordance with the established practice of the General Assembly, and that the Preparatory Committee will hold an organizational session of 4 days' duration, from 19-22 May 1998.
Action note1997-11-26
Vote summary
Adopted without vote, 56th meeting
Meeting record
A/52/PV.56
Agenda information
A/52/251 46 Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development. SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT--CONFERENCES (1995 : COPENHAGEN)
Date[New York] : UN, 23 Jan. 1998.
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7 p.
Notes
Adopted at the 56th plenary meeting, 26 Nov. 1997.