Preparations for the special session on children : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2000
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SymbolA/RES/55/26
TitlePreparations for the special session on children : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
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Summary
Urges all relevant organizations and bodies of the UN system, including the funds and programmes, specialized agencies and the international financial institutions, actively to participate in the preparations for the special session; decides to convene the special session of the General Assembly for follow-up to the World Summit for Children from 19-21 Sept. 2001, and to refer to it as the "special session on children"; decides also to convene two substantive sessions of the Preparatory Committee in New York during 2001, one from 29 Jan.-2 Feb. and the other from 11-15 June; decides further to invite the associate members of the regional commissions to participate as observers in the special session and its preparatory process, subject to the rules of procedure of the General Assembly; reaffirms the importance of the full participation of the least developed countries in the special session and the preparations for the session; encourages Governments which have not yet contributed to do so; decides to include in the provisional agenda of its 56th session an item entitled "Follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children".
Call number
A(01)/R3
Action note2000-11-20
Vote summary
Adopted without vote, 69th plenary meeting
DraftA/55/L.34/Rev.1
Meeting record
A/55/PV.69
Agenda information
A/55/251 42 Special session of the General Assembly in 2001 for follow-up to the World Summit for Children. WORLD SUMMIT FOR CHILDREN (1990 : NEW YORK)
Date[New York] : UN, 9 Jan. 2001
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3 p.