A/RES/74/253
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 141
Joint Inspection Unit
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 27 December 2019
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/74/613)]
74/253.
Enhancing accessibility for persons with disabilities to conferences
and meetings of the United Nations system
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 62/170 of 18 December 2007, 70/170 of 17 December
2015, 71/262 of 23 December 2016, 72/19 of 1 December 2017, 72/161 and 72/162
of 19 December 2017, 73/270 of 22 December 2018 and 74/144 of 18 December 2019,
Reaffirming the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 1 which
it adopted on 13 December 2006 and which entered into force on 3 May 2008, a
landmark convention affirming the human rights and fundamental freedoms of
persons with disabilities, and recognizing that it is both a human rights and a
development instrument,
Noting with appreciation the United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy
launched by the Secretary-General on 11 June 2019,
Having considered the note by the Secretary-General drawing attention to the
report of the Joint Inspection Unit on enhancing accessibility for persons with
disabilities to conferences and meetings of the United Nations system, 2 as well as the
comments of the Secretary-General and of the United Nations System Chief
Executives Board for Coordination thereon, 3
1.
Notes with appreciation the report of the Joint Inspection Unit on
enhancing accessibility for persons with disabilities to conferences and meetings of
the United Nations system; 2
2.
Takes note of the note by the Secretary-General; 3
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