– having regard to the 66th Session of the UNGA, in particular that body's resolutions on ‘The United Nations in global governance’ , ‘Promoting the efficiency, accountability, effectiveness and transparency of public administration by strengthening supreme audit institutions’ , ‘The situation in the Syrian Arab Republic’ , ‘People's empowerment and development’ , ‘Towards global partnerships’ , ‘South-South cooperation’ , ‘The role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalisation and interdependence’ , ‘Strengthening the role of the United Nations in enhancing periodic and genuine elections and the promotio ...[+++]n of democratisation’ , ‘Report of the Conference on Disarmament’ , ‘Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order’ , and ‘The universal, indivisible, interrelated, interdependent and mutually reinforcing nature of all human rights and fundamental freedoms’ ,

– having regard to the 66th Session of the UNGA, in particular that body’s resolutions on ‘The United Nations in global governance’, ‘Promoting the efficiency, accountability, effectiveness and transparency of public administration by strengthening supreme audit institutions’, ‘The situation in the Syrian Arab Republic’, ‘People’s empowerment and development’, ‘Towards global partnerships’, ‘South-South cooperation’, ‘The role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalisation and interdependence’, ‘Strengthening the role of the United Nations in enhancing periodic and genuine elections and the promotion of de ...[+++]mocratisation’, ‘Report of the Conference on Disarmament’, ‘Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order’, and ‘The universal, indivisible, interrelated, interdependent and mutually reinforcing nature of all human rights and fundamental freedoms’,

Draws attention to the added value of participation in international election observation missions in the OSCE area, along with the OSCE/ODHIR, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and, where appropriate, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly; is of the opinion that its involvement in these missions should be continued and even increased; underlines the crucial importance of thorough political coordination between the bodies involved, in particular as regards the diligence of its assessment, adherence to independence standards, the conclusions of long-term observers and the coh ...[+++]erence of public statements.

9. Draws attention to the added value of participation in international election observation missions in the OSCE area, along with the OSCE/ODHIR, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and, where appropriate, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly; is of the opinion that its involvement in these missions should be continued and even increased; underlines the crucial importance of thorough political coordination between the bodies involved, in particular as regards the diligence of its assessment, adherence to independence standards, the conclusions of long-term observers and the coh ...[+++]erence of public statements;

A World Health Assembly resolution adopted at the 49th World Health Assembly in Geneva in 1996 declares that violence is a leading worldwide public health problem.

1. Calls on the Commission, the Council and the Member States to actively support at the Second UN World Assembly on Ageing an international action strategy and a clear commitment towards a society for all ages (by allocating adequate political and financial means), based on solidarity between generations, a positive image of living longer, older people's contribution to the well-being of society and the active role they continue to play in the family and community; believes that the right of older people to be actively involved in public life, to democracy ...[+++]and to equality needs be implemented by urgent, concrete and ambitious actions at all levels;