Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development
and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly
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context of coordinated and integrated follow-up to the major United Nations
conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields;
60. 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, 20 to continue to be
actively involved in their follow-up and to monitor the achievement of those
commitments and undertakings;
61. Invites the Commission for Social Development to emphasize, in its
review of the implementation of the Copenhagen Declaration and the Programme of
Action, the increased exchange of national, regional and international experiences,
the focused and interactive dialogues among experts and practitioners and the
sharing of best practices and lessons learned, and to engage actively in the
discussions on the post-2015 development agenda;
62. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-ninth session,
under the item entitled “Social development”, the sub-item entitled “Implementation
of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twentyfourth special session of the General Assembly”, and requests the Secretary-General
to submit a report on the question to the Assembly at that session.
70th plenary meeting
18 December 2013
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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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