United Nations A/RES/69/142 General Assembly Distr.: General 22 January 2015 Sixty-ninth session Agenda item 26 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2014 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/69/480)] 69/142. Realizing the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities towards 2015 and beyond The General Assembly, Recalling earlier operational frameworks, such as the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons,1 which it adopted on 3 December 1982, and the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, 2 which it adopted on 20 December 1993, in which persons with disabilities are recognized as both development agents and beneficiaries in all aspects of development, Reaffirming the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,3 which it adopted on 13 December 2006 and which entered into force on 3 May 2008, a landmark convention affirming the human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons with disabilities, recognizing that it is both a human rights and a development instrument, and taking note of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,4 Recalling all of its previous resolutions on realizing the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities, as well as the relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council and of the Economic and Social Council and its functional commissions, Recalling also its previous resolutions on the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, in which it recognized the collective responsibility of Governments to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity at the global level, and in this sense stressing the duty of Member States to achieve the full application and implementation of the international normative framework on persons with disabilities and development, including by encouraging the ratification and implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, _______________ 1 A/37/351/Add.1 and Corr.1, annex, sect. VIII, recommendation 1 (IV). Resolution 48/96, annex. 3 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2515, No. 44910. 4 Ibid., vol. 2518, No. 44910. 2 14-67577 (E) *1467577* Please recycle