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Globalization and interdependence:
Date of consideration: 27 October 2005 (PM) & 28
October 2005
Second Committee Report
(59th session):
A/59/485
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A/60/111 [F]
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Letter dated 5 July 2005 from the
Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations
addressed to the Secretary-General
A/60/115
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Letter dated 11 July 2005 from the
representatives of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkey and
the United States of America to the United Nations
addressed to the Secretary-General
(a)
Globalization and interdependence
Date of consideration: 27 October 2005 (PM) & 28
October 2005
Second Committee Report
(59th session):
A/59/485/Add.1
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Documents:
A/60/129
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Letter dated 13 July 2005 from the
Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations
addressed to the Secretary-General
A/60/322
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Report of the Secretary-General on
building institutions for achieving the development goals and
integrating in the global economy (Mandate: GA res.
59/240, para. 19)
Summary:
This item was included
in the agenda of the fifty-third session of the General
Assembly in 1998. The Assembly considered the item at its
fifty-third to fifty-eighth sessions (resolutions 53/169,
54/231, 55/212, 56/209, 57/274 and 58/225).
At its fifty-ninth
session, the General Assembly reaffirmed that the United
Nations had a central role in promoting international
cooperation for development and in promoting policy coherence
on global development issues, including in the context of
globalization and interdependence; and requested the
Secretary-General to submit to it at its sixtieth session a
report on globalization and interdependence (resolution
59/240).
(b)
Science and technology for development
Date of consideration: 27 October 2005 (PM) & 28
October 2005
Document:
A/60/184
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Report of the Secretary-General on
implementation of General Assembly resolution 58/200: science
and technology for development (Mandate: GA res.
58/200, paras. 2 and 5)
Summary:
The General Assembly considered
this item at its fiftieth, fifty-second and fifty-fourth to
fifty-sixth sessions (resolutions 50/101, 52/184, 54/201,
55/185 and 56/182).
At its fifty-fifth session, in
2000, the General Assembly decided that from the fifty-sixth
session, the item would be included in the agenda on a
biennial basis (resolution 55/185).
At its fifty-eighth session, in
December 2003, the General Assembly recognizing the role that
international cooperation could play in addressing the
technological gap and the digital divide between the North and
the South, and reaffirming the need to enhance the science and
technology activities of organizations of the United Nations
system and the role of the Commission on Science and
Technology for Development in providing policy guidance, in
particular on issues of relevance to developing countries,
urged the relevant bodies of the United Nations system engaged
in biotechnology to work cooperatively so as to ensure that
countries received sound scientific information and practical
advice to enable them to take advantage of those technologies
to promote economic growth and development; requested the
Secretary-General to report further on the status of
coordination between the relevant organizations and bodies of
the United Nations system with a view to strengthening the
coordination of biotechnology-related activities; invited the
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in
collaboration with the Information and Communication
Technologies Task Force and the International
Telecommunication Union to update the publication entitled
Information and Communication Technology Development Indices
as part of its contribution to the World Summit on the
Information Society; and requested the Secretary-General to
submit to the Assembly at its sixtieth session a report on the
implementation of the resolution (resolution 58/200).
(c)
International migration and development
Date of consideration: 27 October 2005 (PM) & 28
October 2005
Second Committee Report
(59th session):
A/59/485/Add.2
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A/60/205
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Report of the Secretary-General on
international migration and development (Mandate: GA res.
58/208, para. 10, and res. 59/241, para. 2)
Summary:
At its forty-ninth session in
1994, in the context of its deliberations on the report of the
International Conference on Population and Development, held
in Cairo from 5 to 13 September 1994, the General Assembly
requested the Secretary-General to prepare a report on
international migration and development (resolution 49/127).
At its fiftieth session, the
General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to prepare a
report to be submitted to it at its fifty-second session
containing concrete proposals on ways and means to address the
issue of international migration and development (resolution
50/123).
The General Assembly considered
the question biennially from its fifty-second to its
fifty-sixth sessions (resolutions 52/189, 54/212 and 56/203).
At its fifty-eighth session,
the General Assembly decided that in 2006 it would devote a
high-level dialogue to international migration and
development; and requested the Secretary-General to report to
the Assembly at its sixtieth session on the organizational
details of the high-level dialogue (resolution 58/208).
At its fifty-ninth session, the
General Assembly reconfirmed its request for the
Secretary-General to report at the sixtieth session of the
Assembly on the organizational details of the 2006 high-level
dialogue (resolution 59/241).
(d) Preventing and combating corrupt practices and
transfer of funds of illicit origin and returning such assets
to the countries of origin
Date of consideration: 27 October 2005 (PM) & 28
October 2005
Second Committee Report
(59th session):
A/59/485/Add.3
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Document:
A/60/157
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Report of the Secretary-General on
preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer of
funds of illicit origin and returning such assets to the
countries of origin (Mandate: GA res.
59/242, para. 15)
Summary:
At its fifty-ninth session, the
General Assembly reiterated its invitation to all Member
States and competent regional economic integration
organizations to sign, ratify and fully implement the United
Nations Convention against Corruption; encouraged all
Governments to prevent, combat and penalize corruption in all
its forms, including bribery, money-laundering and the
transfer of illicitly acquired assets, and to work for the
prompt return of such assets; called for further international
cooperation, inter alia, through the United Nations system, in
support of national, subregional and regional efforts to
prevent and combat corrupt practices and the transfer of
assets of illicit origin, as well as for asset recovery;
encouraged Member States to provide adequate financial and
human resources to the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime and encouraged the Office to give high priority to
technical cooperation, upon request, to promote and facilitate
the implementation of the United Nations Convention against
Corruption; urged all Member States to abide by the principles
of proper management of public affairs and public property,
fairness and responsibility and equality before the law and
the need to safeguard integrity and to foster a culture of
transparency, accountability and rejection of corruption;
called upon the private sector to remain fully engaged in the
fight against corruption and welcomed the agreement to add
anti-corruption as the tenth principle of the Global Compact;
encouraged all Member States that had not yet done so to
require financial institutions to properly implement
comprehensive due diligence and vigilance programmes;
encouraged Member States, relevant international organizations
and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to give
prominence to 9 December as International Anti-Corruption Day;
and requested the Secretary-General to report to it at its
sixtieth session on the implementation of the resolution and
on the impact of corruption in all its forms, including on the
scale of transfers of assets of illicit origin and the impact
of corruption and such outflows on economic growth and
sustainable development (resolution 59/242).
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