Reaffirms the validity of the Guiding Principles for Developmental Social Welfare Policies and Programmes in the Near Future as an appropriate framework for future action in the field of social welfare and development; urges the Secretary-General and all organizations of the UN system concerned to include the implementation of the Guiding Principles in their respective programmes of work; decides that social issues as conceived in the Guiding Principles should become a major part of the international strategy for the 4th UN development decade; invites funding agencies within the UN system to consider a readjustment and an appropriate increase of their input of resources in the field of social development; requests the Secretary-General: (a) to enhance the monitoring functions of and within the UN Office at Vienna; (b) to prepare, maintain and publicize an overview of social components and internationally accepted norms of the many international plans, covenants, declarations and strategies in the social field; (c) to ensure that all bodies of the UN system concerned with developmental programmes and projects consult the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat; (d) to reflect the recommendations of the Guiding Principles in the medium-term plan for the period 1992-1997 and in the programme budget for the biennium 1990-1991; (e) to report to the General Assembly at its 46th session on the progress achieved in implementing and following up the Guiding Principles and the present resolution.

Adopted without vote, 78th meeting

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Adopted at the 78th plenary meeting, 8 Dec. 1989.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 44th session, Volume 1, 19 September-29 December 1989. - A/44/49. - 1990. - p. 185. - (GAOR, 44th sess., Suppl. no. 49).