A/RES/73/143 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 9 January 2019 Seventy-third session Agenda item 28 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2018 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/581)] 73/143. Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 57/167 of 18 December 2002, in which it endorsed the Political Declaration 1 and the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, 2 its resolution 58/134 of 22 December 2003, in which it took note, inter alia, of the road map for the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action, and its resolutions 60/135 of 16 December 2005, 61/142 of 19 December 2006, 62/130 of 18 December 2007, 63/151 of 18 December 2008, 64/132 of 18 December 2009, 65/182 of 21 December 2010, 66/127 of 19 December 2011, 67/139 and 67/143 of 20 December 2012, 68/134 of 18 December 2013, 69/146 of 18 December 2014, 70/164 of 17 December 2015, 71/164 of 19 December 2016 and 72/144 of 19 December 2017, Recognizing that, in many parts of the world, awareness of the Madrid Plan of Action remains limited or non-existent, which limits the scope of implementation efforts, Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General, 3 Recalling the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 4 and stressing the need to ensure that issues of relevance to older persons are taken into account in its implementation in order to ensure that no one is left behind, including older persons, Noting the recent regional developments on the protection and promotion of the human rights of older persons, including the Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Older Persons in Africa, __________________ 1 2 3 4 18-22179 (E) Report of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid, 8–12 April 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.IV.4), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I. Ibid., annex II. A/73/213. Resolution 70/1. 110119 *1822179*

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