Urges States parties to withdraw reservations that are incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention and to comply in a timely manner with their reporting obligations under the Convention; condemns all forms of violence against children or their abduction; strongly condemns any recruitment or use of children in armed conflict; decides: (a) to request the Secretary-General to submit the General Assembly at its 61st session a report on the rights of the child; (b) 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; (c) to request the Independent Expert for the UN study on violence against children to present his final report to the General Assembly at its 61st session; (d) to reiterate the invitation to 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 61st session; (e) to pay particular attention to the rights of children infected with and affected by HIV and AIDS at its special session on HIV and AIDS in 2006; (f) to continue its consideration of the question at its 61st session.

Adopted 130-1-0, 69th plenary meeting

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