Realizing the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities towards 2015 and beyond A/RES/69/142 with disabilities by gender and age, and underlining the need for internationally comparable data to assess progress on development policies that are inclusive of persons with disabilities, 1. Reaffirms the outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the realization of the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities, 9 held on 23 September 2013, at the level of Heads of State and Government, with the overarching theme “The way forward: a disability-inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond”, and also reaffirms the commitments contained therein; 2. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General entitled “Realization of the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities: a disability-inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond”,10 and the recommendations contained therein; 3. Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General entitled “A life of dignity for all: accelerating progress towards and advancing the United Nations development agenda beyond 2015”,11 in which the consideration of the inclusion of disability as a cross-cutting issue across the successor set of goals and targets of the post-2015 development agenda was recommended; 4. Recalls its resolution 68/309 of 10 September 2014, in which it welcomed the report of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals12 and decided that the proposal of the Open Working Group contained in the report shall be the main basis for integrating sustainable development goals into the post-2015 development agenda, while recognizing that other inputs will also be considered, in the intergovernmental negotiation process at the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly, and acknowledges that the report of the Open Working Group integrates a disability perspective; 5. Recognizes the continued need to give appropriate consideration to the issue of the rights of persons with disabilities in relation to the post-2015 development agenda; 6. Expresses appreciation to Member States and United Nations entities that have submitted information on progress made towards the realization of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, including on specific priorities for action, and data and analysis on persons with disabilities, and urges Member States and relevant United Nations entities that have not already done so to submit the requested information; 7. Invites the Chair of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the rights of persons with disabilities to address and engage in an interactive dialogue with the General Assembly at its seventieth session, under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of human rights”, as a way to enhance communication between the Assembly and the Committee; _______________ 9 Resolution 68/3. A/69/187. 11 A/68/202 and Corr.1. 12 A/68/970 and Corr.1. 10 3/5