Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development
and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly
A/RES/69/143
invites the private sector to take into account not only the economic and financial
implications but also the development, social, human rights, gender and
environmental implications of its undertakings, and underlines the importance of the
International Labour Organization Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning
Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy;
59. Acknowledges the inclusion in the report of the Open Working Group on
Sustainable Development Goals 12 of a goal to end poverty in all its forms
everywhere and a goal to promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic
growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all, and reiterates the
continued importance of giving due consideration to poverty eradication, social
integration, full employment and decent work for all in the ongoing discussion on
the post-2015 development agenda;
60. Reaffirms the importance of rethinking and strengthening social
development in the contemporary world by, inter alia, appraising progress made,
identifying gaps and challenges in achieving the internationally agreed social
development goals and realizing opportunities for social development;
61. Stresses the importance of the World Summit for Social Development,
held in Copenhagen from 6 to 12 March 1995, and invites all Member States,
relevant organizations of the United Nations development system and the
specialized agencies, regional commissions and other international organizations, as
well as civil society and private sector organizations, to actively promote and
undertake activities during 2015 to support an appropriate celebration of the
twentieth anniversary of the World Summit;
62. Decides to devote one high-level plenary meeting of the General
Assembly, within existing resources, at its seventieth session, in 2015, to the
commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the World Summit, in order to
celebrate the progress made so far and to further strengthen the role of social
development beyond 2015, and requests the President of the General Assembly to
conduct consultations with Member States in order to determine the modalities for
that meeting;
63. Invites the Secretary-General, the Economic and Social Council, the
regional commissions, the relevant specialized agencies, the funds and programmes
of the United Nations system and other intergovernmental forums, within their
respective mandates, to continue to integrate into their work programmes and give
priority attention to the Copenhagen commitments and the Declaration on the tenth
anniversary of the World Summit for Social Development, 23 to continue to be
actively involved in their follow-up and to monitor the achievement of those
commitments and undertakings;
64. Invites the Economic and Social Council and the Commission for Social
Development to give appropriate consideration to the commemoration of the
twentieth anniversary of the World Summit by organizing a meeting during the
regular programme of work of the substantive session of the Council and a half-day
meeting during the fifty-third session of the Commission, in 2015, taking into
account the discussions on the post-2015 development agenda and the fact that a
summit at the level of Heads of State and Government for the adoption of the post2015 development agenda will be held in September 2015;
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See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 6 (E/2005/26), chap. I,
sect. A; see also Economic and Social Council decision 2005/234.
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