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networking resources available and provide technical cooperation to developing
countries, upon their request, in the field of volunteerism;
9.
Invites the United Nations Volunteers to develop a global Internet
volunteer resource based on the International Year of Volunteers web site 2 and on
national web sites with a view to enhancing network capabilities and to expanding
information, knowledge and resource management, and encourages Governments
and all stakeholders, in particular the private sector, to contribute on a voluntary
basis to this initiative;
10. Calls for the relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations
system to integrate volunteerism in its various forms into their policies, programmes
and reports, and encourages the recognition and inclusion of volunteer contributions
in future United Nations and other relevant international conferences, such as the
World Summit on the Information Society;
11. Requests the Secretary-General to factor such contributions made by
volunteers in his reports on the implementation of the Millennium Declaration1 and
of other major United Nations conferences, summits, special sessions and their
follow-up meetings;
12. Also requests the Secretary-General to take measures, in particular within
the mandates and the existing resources of the United Nations Volunteers and the
Department of Public Information of the Secretariat, to ensure that the potential of
the International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development in follow-up
to the International Year of Volunteers is fully realized;
13. Further requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly
at its sixtieth session on the implementation of the present resolution under the item
entitled “Social development, including questions relating to the world social
situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family”.
61st plenary meeting
26 November 2002
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