Follow-Up to the Outcome of the 26th Special Session : Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on Hiv/Aids

A/RES/57/299View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 42 Follow-up to the outcome of the 26th special session : implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, published in 2002.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2003–2004

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/58/236

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2004	A/RES/58/236	Follow-up to the outcome of the 26th special session : implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS	2,168	12%Compare
2003	A/RES/57/299	Follow-up to the outcome of the 26th special session : implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS	681	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports · 2003–2005

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2005	A/59/765	Progress made in the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/58/236
2003	A/58/184	Progress towards implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/57/299

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Civil Society Declarations Hiv/Aids Hiv/Aids Prevention Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Report Preparation

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General on progress towards the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS,³ including the recommendations contained therein;

³A/57/227 and Corr.1.

Decides to convene a day of high-level plenary meetings devoted to the follow-up to the outcome of its twenty-sixth special session and the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment, to be held immediately following the general debate at its fifty-eighth session on a date to be decided by the General Assembly during its fifty-seventh session;

Decides also that statements in the debate in the plenary meetings should not exceed five minutes each;

Decides further that an informal interactive panel discussion will be held in parallel with the afternoon plenary meeting and that it will have as its theme “Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS: from policy to practice - progress achieved, lessons learned and best practices”; the Chairman of the informal panel will orally present a summary of the discussions in the informal panel to the General Assembly at the end of the debate in plenary meeting;

Decides that, in addition to Member States, observers, representatives of the entities of the United Nations system, non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and non-governmental members of the Programme Coordinating Board of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, an invitation to the informal interactive panel discussion will be extended to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and not more than fifteen civil society representatives of international, national or community organizations, including those representing and working for people living with HIV/AIDS, and the private sector, including pharmaceutical companies, and requests the President of the General Assembly, following appropriate consultations with Member States, to draw up the list of those civil society representatives, on the basis of the recommendations of the Joint Programme and taking into account the principle of geographical representation, and to submit the list to Member States for consideration on a no-objection basis for a final decision by the Assembly on participation;

Invites the President of the General Assembly to finalize any outstanding organizational matters in consultation with the Member States;

Requests the Secretary-General to prepare a comprehensive and analytical report on progress achieved in realizing the commitments set out in the Declaration of Commitment, with a view to identifying problems and constraints and making recommendations on action needed to make further progress, for consideration by the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session, and in this context underlines the importance of the continuing refinement of the core indicators developed by the Joint Programme and approved by its Programme Coordinating Board;

Decides that the arrangements outlined in paragraph 5 above shall in no way create a precedent for other similar events;

Decides also to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session the item entitled “Follow-up to the outcome of the twenty-sixth special session: implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS”.

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