A/RES/71/162
Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development
and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly
65. Welcomes the meeting convened on 5 February 2015 by the Commission
for Social Development at its fifty-third session, the meeting of the Economic and
Social Council convened on 8 June 2015 and the high-level meeting of the General
Assembly convened on 11 December 2015, in commemoration of the twentieth
anniversary of the World Summit for Social Development;
66. 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 remain actively engaged in
supporting the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in
its social dimension;
67. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-second
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 twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly”, with a special focus
on trends in inequality within and among countries, and requests the SecretaryGeneral to submit a report on the question to the Assembly at that session.
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