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United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation

19 December


By resolution 58/220 of 23 December 2003, the General Assembly decided to declare 19 December, United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation. This was the date on which the General Assembly endorsed the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and Implementing Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries.

The Assembly also urged all relevant United Nations organizations and multilateral institutions to intensify their efforts to effectively mainstream the use of South-South cooperation in the design, formulation and implementation of their regular programmes and to consider increasing allocations of human, technical and financial resources for supporting South-South cooperation initiatives.

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2nd South Summit of the Group of 77 (Qatar : June 2005)
Doha Declaration
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Academy of Sciences for the Developing World

Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf

Development Gateway

Economic Community of West African States

Economic Cooperation Organization

Free Trade Area of the Americas

Green Belt Movement

Group of 77 at the United Nations

Latin American and Caribbean Economic System

New Partnership for Africa's Development

Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU

Third World Network

Third World Network of Scientific Organizations

United Nations Foundation


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