Calls upon Governments, the organizations and bodies of the UN system and the non-governmental community to reinforce their advocacy campaigns aimed at informing all major societal actors, including older persons and their organizations, about the decisions taken at the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing; recommends that ongoing efforts to achieve the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the UN Millennium Declaration, take into account the situation of older persons; calls upon Governments and, within their mandates, the agencies and organizations of the UN system, and encourages the non-governmental community, to ensure that the challenges of population ageing and the concerns of older persons are adequately incorporated into their programmes and projects; calls upon Governments to consult and utilize the Research Agenda on Ageing for the 21st Century; recommends that the Commission on the Status of Women continue to consider the situation of older women; takes note of Commission for Social Development resolution 42/1, and in this context requests the Secretary-General to present his proposals for conducting the review and appraisal exercise at the regional and global levels to the Commission at its 44th session; requests the organizations and bodies of the UN system to continue to strengthen the capacity of the focal points on ageing and to provide them with adequate resources; takes note of the report of the Secretary-General, and requests that it be forwarded to the Commission for Social Development at its 44th session in order to assist the Commission in its deliberations; requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its 61st session on the implementation of the present resolution.

Adopted without vote, 64th plenary meeting

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