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Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development: High-level dialogue for the implementation of the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development

Background

(a) Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development

(b) High-level dialogue for the implementation of the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development

The General Assembly considered the question of international intergovernmental consideration of financing for development at its forty-sixth to forty-eighth, fiftieth and fifty-second to fifty-sixth sessions (resolutions 46/205, 48/187, 50/93, 52/179, 53/173, 54/196, 55/213, 55/245 and 56/210 A and B and decisions 47/436 [page 312], 55/446 [page 25], 56/445 [page 22] and 56/446 [page 28]).

At its resumed fifty-sixth session, in July 2002, the General Assembly endorsed the Monterrey Consensus as adopted by the International Conference on Financing for Development on 22 March 2002 (resolution 56/210 B).

The General Assembly considered the question of follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development at its fifty-seventh to fifty-ninth sessions (resolutions 57/250, 57/272, 57/273, 58/230, 59/145, 59/225, 59/291 and 59/293).

At its sixtieth session, the General Assembly held a separate meeting on financing for development, on 14 September 2005, within the framework of the High-level Plenary Meeting (14-16 September 2005); and decided to hold a follow-up international conference on financing for development to review the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus at a time between 2008 and 2009 (resolution 60/188).

At its sixty-first session, the General Assembly decided that the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus would be held in Doha in the second half of 2008; requested the President of the Assembly to hold, starting in 2007, direct intergovernmental consultations of the whole with the participation of all Member States and the major institutional stakeholders involved in the financing for development process, on all issues related to the review conference; decided to hold the 2007 High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development in the fourth quarter of 2007, at a specific date to be determined by the President of the General Assembly in consultation with Member States; decided also that the modalities for holding the 2007 High-level Dialogue would be the same as those used in the 2005 High-level Dialogue, as described in General Assembly resolution 59/293; and requested the Secretary-General to prepare a note on the organization of work of the High-level Dialogue and to submit a report on the implementation of commitments agreed at the International Conference on Financing for Development, as an input to the High-level Dialogue (resolution 61/191).

Document
  1. Report of the Secretary-General on the follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development (resolution 61/191), A/62/217
  2. Note by the Secretary-General on the proposed organization of work of the High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development (resolution 61/191), A/62/271
  3. Summary by the President of the Economic and Social Council of the special high-level meeting of the Council with the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (New York, 16 April 2007) (resolution 61/191), A/62/76- E/2007/55 and Corr.1.
References for the sixty-first session (agenda item 52)
References for the sixty-first session (agenda item 110)

[Source: Annotated preliminary list of items to be included in the provisional agenda of the sixty-second regular session of the General Assembly (A/62/100, Corr. 1 and Add.1)]