Requests the General Assembly to endorse the present resolution and to encourage intergovernmental organizations to support its implementation in order to assist in addressing equalization issues faced by the majority of the world's disabled persons, including disabled women and disabled children, who live in the Asian and Pacific region; urges all members and associate members of the ESCAP: (a) to intensify multisectoral collaborative action towards the fulfilment of the targets for the implementation of the Agenda for Action for the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 1993-2002; (b) to contribute to the ESCAP technical cooperation trust fund for the Decade to meet capacity-building needs for information and technical assistance in multisectoral collaboration among diverse sectors; requests the Executive Secretary of ESCAP to strengthen secretariat assistance to members and associate members by taking the following action: (a) harnessing the multidisciplinary potential of the secretariat of the Commission to enhance sensitivity to disabilities; (b) examining resource allocations within the secretariat, with a view to undertaking the adjustments required to enhance secretariat support for disability-related action; (c) mobilizing resources to continually replenish the technical cooperation trust fund for the Decade for the purposes of documentation, exchanges and field visits, and to disseminate good practices in the implementation of the Agenda for Action for the Decade; (d) generating practical guidelines for advancing equal access by disabled persons to mainstream development opportunities; (e) exploring the means of organizing, by the end of 2002, a high-level regional meeting to consider the lessons learned from national and area efforts towards the fulfilment of the targets for the Decade.

Adopted without vote, 35th 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. 19-20 - (ESCOR, 1998, Suppl. no. 1).