Requests UN regional commissions to organize, within their existing resources, regional consultations with Member States and youth organizations in order to evaluate the implementation of the World Programme of Action; decides to add the following as additional priority areas for the implementation of the World Programme of Action: the mixed impact of globalization on young women and men; the use of and access to information and communication technologies, the dramatic increase in the incidence of HIV infection among young people and the impact of the epidemic on their lives; the active involvement of young people in armed conflict, both as victims and as perpetrators; and the increased importance of addressing intergenerational issues in an ageing society; requests the Commission for Social Development at its 4th session to elaborate the 5 priority areas mentioned above and to make recommendations on a supplement to the World Programme of Action to the General Assembly, to be adopted at its 62nd session, taking into consideration other emerging issues of particular relevance to youth; requests the Secretariat, in collaboration with other relevant UN programmes and agencies, to establish a broad set of indicators related to youth which Governments and other actors may choose to use to measure progress towards the implementation of the World Programme of Action.

Adopted without vote, 28th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 60th sess., Suppl. no. 49.