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A/C.3/48/L.7
26 October 1993
ORIGINAL: ENGLISH
Forty-eighth session
THIRD COMMITTEE
Agenda item 109
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING QUESTIONS RELATING TO THE WORLD
SOCIAL SITUATION AND TO YOUTH, AGEING, DISABLED PERSONS AND
THE FAMILY
Afghanistan, Belarus, China, Costa Rica, Denmark, Egypt,
Indonesia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mongolia, Morocco,
Nicaragua, Philippines and Romania: draft resolution
Towards full integration of persons with disabilities in
society: a continuing world programme of action
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its relevant resolutions, including resolutions 37/52 and
37/53 of 3 December 1982, 46/96 of 16 December 1991 and 47/88 of
16 December 1992, and taking note of Economic and Social Council decision
1992/276 of 30 July 1992 and Commission on Human Rights resolution 1992/48 of
3 March 1992, 1/
Noting the importance of developing and carrying out concrete long-term
strategies for the full implementation of the World Programme of Action
concerning Disabled Persons beyond the United Nations Decade of Disabled
Persons, with the aim of achieving a society for all by the year 2000,
Reaffirming that the efforts of both the developing and the developed
countries are indispensable to mobilize the world’s attention and resources to
address the problems of persons with disabilities,
Aware of the major obstacles to the implementation of the World Programme
of Action concerning Disabled Persons, foremost among these being an inadequate
allocation of resources,
1/ See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1992,
Supplement No. 2 (E/1992/22), chap. II, sect. A.
93-58334 (E) 261093 /...
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1. Reaffirms the continuing validity and value of the World Programme of
Action concerning Disabled Persons, which provides a firm and innovative
framework for disability-related issues;
2. Reiterates the responsibility of Governments for removing or
facilitating the removal of barriers and obstacles to the full integration of
persons with disabilities into society, and supports their efforts in developing
national policies to reach specific objectives;
3. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to give higher priority and
visibility to disability issues within the work programme of the United Nations
system by:
(a) Integrating disability issues into the policies, programmes and
projects of the specialized agencies on a broader scale and with higher
priority, and asking all the specialized agencies to report on their engagement
in the disability field;
(b) Asking the United Nations Development Programme to review how a
disability component can be incorporated in all its reconstruction programmes;
(c) Finalizing the ongoing work within the United Nations Development
Programme of creating a disability index based on the twenty-two rules in the
Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with
Disabilities; 2/
(d) Publishing a manual on the integration of disability issues into
national planning and development projects;
(e) Asking the Statistical Office of the Secretariat, in close cooperation
with all relevant United Nations organizations and Governments, to continue its
important work of collecting statistical data about disability matters and to
finalize the commendable work carried out by the Statistical Division of the
United Nations Development Programme concerning the development of a global
disability indicator;
4. Recommends that regional arrangements, including the Economic and
Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the Economic Commission for Europe,
the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, the Economic
Commission for Africa and other relevant regional organizations, be fully
utilized to explore the best ways and means to improve the specific situation of
persons with disabilities in each region;
5. Invites Member countries and the private sector, including relevant
non-governmental organizations, to contribute to the United Nations Voluntary
Fund on Disability;
6. Invites Member countries and other donors to pay close attention to
the increasing number of persons with disabilities as a consequence of natural
disasters, wars and catastrophic accidents;
2/ See Economic and Social Council resolution 1993/19, annex.
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7. Commends the launching of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled
Persons, 1993-2002, and the adoption of the Proclamation on the Full
Participation and Equality of People with Disabilities in the Asian and Pacific
region 3/ by the intergovernmental Meeting to Launch the Asian and Pacific
Decade of Disabled Persons, 1993-2002, convened by the Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific at Beijing from 1 to 5 December 1992;
8. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at
its forty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution under
the item entitled "Social development".
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3/ See E/ESCAP/902, annex I.