Expresses its concern about the great number of reservations to the Convention, and urges States parties to withdraw reservations that are incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention and to consider reviewing other reservations with a view to withdrawing them; decides: (a) to request the Secretary-General to prepare an updated report on the progress achieved in realizing the commitments set out in the document entitled "A world fit for children"; (b) to request the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its 60th session a report on the rights of the child, containing information on the status of the Convention and the issues addressed in the present resolution; (c) to request the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict to continue to submit reports to the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights and to ensure that they contain relevant, accurate and objective information on the situation of children affected by armed conflict; (d) to invite the Chairman of the Committee on the Rights of the Child to present an oral report on the work of the Committee to the General Assembly at its 60th session; (e) to focus its general debate regarding the promotion of the rights of the child, at future sessions, on specific challenges, beginning, at its 60th session, with the contribution that the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child can make to the eradication of poverty and hunger; (f) to continue its consideration of the question at its 60th session.

Adopted 166-2-1, 76th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 59th sess., Suppl. no. 49.