Decides that the high-level plenary review to appraise and assess the progress achieved in the implementation of the Nairobi Foward-looking Strategies for the Advanvement of Women and the Beijing Platform for Action, and to consider further actions and initiatives, should be held as a special session of the General Assembly for 5 days, from 5-9 June 2000; decides that the special session should reaffirm the commitment to the Beijing Platform for Action and further focus on obstacles encountered in implementation, as well as on strategies to overcome those obstacles, with a view to fully implementing the Platform, as well as to taking further action and initiatives; decides that the preparatory work will be carried out by the Commission on the Status of Women at its 43rd and 44th sessions in the years 1999 and 2000, respectively, and that the 43rd and 44th sessions will be extended by 5 days each to complete the preparations; requests the Secretary-General to invite all entities of the UN system to be actively involved in preparatory activities and to participete at the highest level in the special session; requests the Secretary-General to provide in the report on emerging issues to be submitted to the Commission at its 44th session, additional material on further actions and initiatives for the preparation of the outlook beyond the year 2000; requests the Secretary-General to provide by th end of 1999 a compilation of updated statistics and indicators on the situation of women and girls in countries around the world by issuing, for example, a volume of "The World's Women"

Adopted without vote, 5th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 1998, New York, 22 Jan. and 3 and 6 Feb. 1998; resumed organizational session for 1998, New York, 7 May 1998; substantive session of 1998, New York, 6-31 July and 5 Aug. 1998; resumed substantive session of 1998, New York, 16 Dec. 1998 - E/1998/98 - p. 17-18 - (ESCOR, 1998, Suppl. no. 1).