17 June 2003
INTEGRATED AND COORDINATED IMPLEMENTATION
OF AND FOLLOW-UP TO
THE OUTCOMES OF THE MAJOR UNITED
NATIONS CONFERENCES AND SUMMITS
IN THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL FIELDS
Draft Resolution to be Adopted by the General
Assembly
on the report of the Ad Hoc open-ended working of
the General Assembly on the integrated and coordinated
implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes
of the major United Nations Conferences and Summits
in the economic and social fields
The
General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 57/270 and 50/227,
Recalling also the outcomes of the major United
Nations conferences and summits in the economic,
social and related fields,
Considering that after more than a decade of such
events progress in implementation has been insufficient
and therefore the time has come to vigorously pursue
their effective implementation,
Recalling the Millennium Declaration,
Recognizing that the internationally agreed development
goals, including those contained in the Millennium
Declaration, offer a framework for planning, reviewing
and assessing the UN’s activities for development,
Reaffirming that sustainable development is a key
element of the overarching framework for United
Nations activities, in particular for achieving
the internationally agreed development goals, including
those contained in the Millennium Declaration;
Reaffirming that the internationally agreed development
goals, including those contained in the UN Millennium
Declaration and the outcomes of the major UN conferences
and summits, provide a comprehensive basis for action
at the national, regional and international levels
with the key objectives of poverty eradication,
sustained economic growth and sustainable development;
Recognizing also that peace, security, stability
and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms,
including the right to development, as well as respect
for cultural diversity, are essential for achieving
sustainable development and ensuring that sustainable
development benefits all,
Emphasizing the importance of the integrated and
coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the
major United Nations conferences and summits, bearing
in mind the need to respect the thematic unity of
each conference, and the interlinkages between them,
Bearing in mind the ongoing process of reform of
the United Nations,
Recognizing the need to strengthen political impetus
in the implementation of and follow up to the outcomes
of the major UN conferences and summits,
1. Integrated and coordinated implementation of
the outcomes of major UN conferences and summits,
at national, regional and international levels
1.1
The role of Member States
1. Emphasizes that each country has primary responsibility
for its own economic and social development, and
the role of national policies and development strategies
cannot be overemphasized. At the same time, domestic
economies are now interwoven with the global economic
system, and inter alia, the effective use of trade
and investment opportunities can help countries
to fight poverty. National development efforts need
to be supported by an enabling international economic
environment. We encourage and support development
frameworks initiated at the regional level, such
as the New Partnership for Africa’s Development
and similar efforts in other regions;
2. Reaffirms, in this context, that the achievement
of the internationally agreed development goals,
including those contained in the Millennium Declaration,
requires an enhanced partnership between donor and
recipient countries, based on the recognition of
national leadership and ownership of development
plans, as well as sound policies and good governance
at national and international levels;
3. Stresses, in this context, that all countries
should promote policies consistent and coherent
with the commitments of major United Nations conferences
and summits including those systemic in nature,
in order to, inter alia, achieve the internationally
agreed development goals, including those contained
in the Millennium Declaration;
1.2
Means of implementation
4.
Stresses the importance of means of implementation
as identified in the outcomes of the major UN conferences
and summits and reaffirms that the implementation
of those outcomes requires urgent fulfillment by
all countries of their commitments relating to means
of implementation as contained in the relevant paragraphs
of the conference outcome documents, including the
Johannesburg Plan of Implementation and the Monterrey
Consensus;
1.3
Institutional frameworks
5.
Stresses the importance of institutional frameworks
as identified in the outcomes of major UN conferences
and summits;
1.4
The role of the UN system, including the Bretton
Woods Institutions and the WTO and other relevant
institutional stakeholders
6. Emphasizes that the United Nations system has
an important responsibility to assist Governments
to stay fully engaged in the follow up to and implementation
of agreements and commitments reached at the conferences;
and invites its intergovernmental bodies to further
promote the implementation of the outcomes of the
major United Nations conferences and summits;
7. Calls upon the governing bodies of the funds
and programmes to ensure that the policy guidance
from the General Assembly and the Economic and Social
Council on the implementation of the outcomes of
major United Nations conferences and summits is
integrated into their programme of work and translated
into their operational activities;
8. Stresses that the relevant organs, organizations
and bodies of the United Nations system should incorporate
into their programme of work, in accordance with
their respective mandates, the outcomes of the major
UN conferences and summits, and take them into account
for the operational work and country frameworks
of the United Nations system organizations, in accordance
with national development objectives and priorities;
9. Recommends greater cooperation at the national,
regional and international levels among the UN organizations
and other relevant intergovernmental organizations,
based on a clear understanding and respect of their
respective mandates and governance structures;
10. Calls for enhanced coordination among heads
of international agencies to ensure integrated and
coordinated implementation of the outcomes of the
major United Nations conferences and summits;
11. Underlines, in this context, that the inter-agency
guidelines for operational activities for development
of the United Nations system and the work of the
Chief Executives Board for Coordination and the
United Nations Development Group should reflect
the agreements and commitments reached at the major
United Nations conferences and summits;
12. Invites the Secretary-General, utilizing the
United Nations system Chief Executives Board for
Coordination, to further promote system-wide inter-agency
coordination and cooperation to implement the agreements
and commitments reached at conferences; and requests
the Secretary-General to continue to report on the
CEB’s activities in this regard;
13. Recognizes the progress achieved towards a more
coherent United Nations performance in the development
field, as reflected by a new culture of shared responsibility,
cooperation and coordination among the members of
the United Nations Development Group; in this regard,
invites the Administrator of UNDP, in his capacity
as chair of UNDG, to present, on a regular basis,
to the coordination segment of ECOSOC, the activities
carried out by UNDG related to the integrated and
coordinated implementation of the outcomes of major
United Nations conferences and summits;
14. Emphasizes that the agencies should continue
to improve their operational guidelines, results-based
management and multi-year work programmes, and deepen
further inter-agency co-operation on the implementation
of conference outcomes;
15. Emphasizes the importance of ensuring, under
the leadership of national governments, greater
consistency between the strategic frameworks developed
by the United Nations funds, programmes and agencies
and the Bretton Woods institutions, and the national
poverty reduction strategies, including the Poverty
Reduction Strategy Papers, where they exist;
16. Calls upon the regional commissions within their
respective mandates to further strengthen and enhance
the effectiveness of their activities and improve
their coordination with the entire United Nations
system with regard to the implementation and the
review of the outcomes of major United Nations conferences
and summits, in order to ensure the achievement
of the internationally agreed development goals,
including those contained in the Millennium Declaration;
17. Reiterates the need for substantial increase
in resources for operational activities for development,
on a predictable, continuous and assured basis,
to enable the United Nations funds, programmes and
specialized agencies to contribute effectively to
the implementation of the outcomes of the major
United Nations conferences and summits;
18. Reiterates also the need for continuous overall
improvement in the effectiveness, efficiency, management
and impact of the United Nations system in delivering
its development assistance;
19. Affirms that the Bretton Woods institutions
and the World Trade Organization have an important
role to play in the implementation of the outcomes
of the major United Nations conferences and summits
and in this regard welcomes their efforts to deepen
further their interaction with the UN and engagement
with the financing for development process in particular,
and encourages them to continue their efforts to
ensure the effective implementation of commitments
reached in the Monterrey Consensus with the aim
of achieving the internationally agreed development
goals, including those contained in the Millennium
Declaration;
20. Calls for greater coherence, coordination and
cooperation between the United Nations, the Bretton
Woods institutions and the World Trade Organization,
and other relevant institutional stakeholders such
as regional development banks and other organizations,
at international, regional and national levels,
within their respective competencies, mandates and
comparative advantages, and working with recipient
governments in full accordance with their national
priorities with a view to achieving increased complementarity
and better division of labour in their activities;
1.5
The role of other relevant stakeholders including
civil society and the private sector
21. Underlines the importance of the contribution
of civil society, including non-governmental organizations
and the private sector, to the implementation of
conference outcomes;
22. Stresses the importance of promoting corporate
environmental and social responsibility and accountability.
This would include actions at all levels to:
(a) Encourage industry to improve social and environmental
performance through voluntary initiatives, including
environmental management systems, codes of conduct,
certification and public reporting on environmental
and social issues, taking into account such initiatives
as the International Organization for Standardization
standards and Global Reporting Initiative guidelines
on sustainability reporting, bearing in mind principle
11 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development;
(b) Encourage dialogue between enterprises and the
communities in which they operate and other stakeholders;
(c) Encourage financial institutions to incorporate
sustainable development considerations into their
decision-making processes;
(d) Develop workplace-based partnerships and programmes,
including training and education programmes;
1.6
Review of progress in the implementation of the
outcomes of major United Nations conferences and
summits
23. Stresses the utmost importance of regular review,
in accordance with the provisions defined by the
respective outcomes and follow-up processes, of
the progress made in the implementation of the commitments
undertaken at individual major United Nations conferences
and summits in the economic, social and related
fields;
24. Reviewing is important for assessing the progress
made in the implementation of commitments at all
levels;
25. Stresses also that all reviewing and follow-up
processes of major United Nations conferences and
summits in the economic, social and related fields
must focus on the review of the progress made in
the implementation of commitments;
26. Emphasizes that the review of major United Nations
conferences and summits should, inter alia, identify
constraints and obstacles faced in relation to implementation;
27. Stresses the need to make maximum use of existing
United Nations mechanisms for the purpose of reviewing
implementation of commitments made within the UN
system in key areas of development, and in this
regard:
(a) Recalls the role of UNCTAD as focal point within
the United Nations for the integrated treatment
of trade and development and the interrelated issues
in the areas of finance, technology, investment
and sustainable development and invites the Trade
and Development Board to contribute, within its
mandate, to the implementation and to the review
of progress made in the implementation of the outcomes
of major United Nations conferences and summits,
under its relevant agenda items;
(b) Invites ECOSOC to invite the President of the
Trade and Development Board to present the outcomes
of such reviews to the Economic and Social Council;
(c) Invites ECOSOC to include the representatives
of the Trade and Development Board in the high-level
meeting of ECOSOC with the Bretton Woods institutions
and the World Trade Organization;
(d) Reiterates the importance of making fuller use
and strengthening the General Assembly and ECOSOC,
as well as the relevant intergovernmental/governing
bodies of other institutional stakeholders, for
the purpose of conference follow-up and coordination,
and in this regard, decides to assess during its
58th session the functioning of the follow-up mechanisms
set up in Monterrey in accordance with Chapter III
of the Monterrey Consensus;
28.
Invites Member States as well as organizations of
the United Nations system including the Bretton
Woods Institutions, the World Trade Organization
and non-governmental actors to contribute to the
review and follow-up processes of major United Nations
conferences and summits in the economic, social
and related fields, consistent with their mandates,
through assessment of progress made in the implementation
of their respective commitments in accordance with
the provisions of the outcomes of the respective
United Nations summits and conferences;
29. Reaffirms the importance of indicators for the
review of the progress made in the implementation
of all the commitments of the major United Nations
conferences and summits;
30. Emphasizes that the indicators used by the Secretariat
in the context of the integrated and coordinated
implementation of and follow-up to major UN conferences
and summits should be developed with the full participation
of all countries and approved by the relevant intergovernmental
bodies;
31. Reiterates that the Statistical Commission is
the intergovernmental focal point for the elaboration
and the review of the indicators used by the United
Nations system for the integrated and coordinated
implementation of and follow up to the major United
Nations conferences and summits at all levels. In
this regard, encourages continued efforts by the
Statistical Commission to further improve the list
of indicators on the outcomes of the major conferences
and summits in the economic, social and related
fields, including methodological and technical refinement
of the existing indicators;
32. Stresses the need to apply and further develop
indicators on means of implementation to evaluate
progress towards conference goals in creating an
enabling environment for development;
33. Calls upon the UN funds and programmes, functional
and regional commissions and specialized agencies
to keep under review the full range of indicators
used in their reports and information networks with
full participation and ownership of Member States,
with a view to avoiding duplication, as well as
ensuring the transparency, consistency and reliability
of these indicators;
34. Stresses the importance of building statistical
capacity in all countries, including through statistical
training, and of effective international support
in this context for developing countries; and urges
countries, United Nations funds and programmes,
the Secretariat, bilateral funding agencies, the
Bretton Woods institutions and regional funding
agencies to mobilize the required resources and
coordinate their efforts to support national statistical
capacity-building in developing countries, in particular
in least developed countries;
35. Emphasizes in this regard the importance of
the simplification and harmonization of requests
of the United Nations system for reports by Member
States, encourages further the collaboration between
the various international organizations in the field
of statistics, and calls upon the concerned bodies/agencies
of the United Nations to adopt, in consultation
with Member States, simplified and harmonized methods
and, in this regard, to support developing countries,
where needed and requested, in the preparation of
reports based on national data and statistics;
36. Stresses the need for continued intergovernmental
assessment within existing mechanisms of the performance
of the United Nations system in fulfilling its mandates
with regard to the implementation of the outcomes
of the major United Nations conferences and summits
in the economic, social and related fields bearing
in mind, inter alia, the work in the UN Evaluation
Group, Results Oriented Annual Report methodologies
(ROAR) and practices in other development agencies;
2. Integrated and coordinated follow-up
to the outcomes of major UN conferences and summits
2.1.
The role of the General Assembly
37. Reiterates the need to strengthen its role as
the highest intergovernmental mechanism for the
formulation and appraisal of policy on matters relating
to coordinated and integrated follow up to United
Nations conferences and summits in the economic
and social fields;
38. Recommends greater consultation between the
presidents and the bureaux of the GA and ECOSOC
to improve coordination between the GA and ECOSOC,
with the objective, inter alia, of contributing
to a better consideration of the integrated and
coordinated implementation of and follow up to the
outcomes of major United Nations conferences and
summits;
39. Decides to include in the annual agenda of the
General Assembly an item entitled “Integrated
and coordinated implementation of and follow up
to the outcomes of the major conferences and summits
in the economic, social and related fields”;
further decides to consider, under this item, the
assessment of the implementation of the outcomes
of the conferences and summits, and its impact on
the achievement of the conferences’ goals
and targets, and to provide the necessary guidance
for the further implementation of and follow up
to these outcomes; taking note in this regard of
the emerging practice of holding high-level plenary
meetings in the context of the general debate of
the General Assembly; decides, in this regard, to
consider, under this item, the chapters of ECOSOC’s
annual report relevant to the integrated and coordinated
implementation of and follow up to the outcomes
of the major United Nations conferences and summits,
including through the participation of the President
of ECOSOC in its discussions and invites the Secretary-General
to submit a report on the integrated and coordinated
implementation of and follow up to the outcomes
of the major UN conferences and summits in the economic,
social and related fields;
2.2
The role of ECOSOC
Functional commissions
Regional commissions
Governing bodies of funds and programmes
40.
Reiterates that the Economic and Social Council
should continue to strengthen its role as the central
mechanism for system-wide coordination and thus
promote the integrated and coordinated implementation
of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United
Nations conferences in the economic, social and
related fields in accordance with the United Nations
Charter and General Assembly resolution 50/227;
41.
Decides that ECOSOC should review through a cross-sectoral
approach the progress in implementation of the outcomes
of the major UN conferences and summits and their
follow-up processes, and assess its impact on the
achievement of the conference’s goals and
targets. This review and assessment should be carried
out on an annual basis focusing on a particular
common cross-sectoral thematic issue, at the ECOSOC’s
coordination segment, on the basis, inter alia,
of a report to be submitted by the Secretary-General;
42.
Requests, in this regard, the ECOSOC to establish,
not later than 2004, a multiyear work programme
for the coordination segment, based on a focused
and balanced list of cross-sectoral thematic issues,
common to the outcomes of major conferences and
summits, including the objectives, goals and targets
of the Millennium Declaration while respecting decisions
to be taken by the Council regarding themes for
2004, bearing in mind decisions already taken by
the Council regarding themes. This multi-year programme
will enable the UN system and relevant stakeholders
to better prepare their contributions to these discussions,
in accordance with the rules of procedures of the
ECOSOC;
43. Underlines that the theme of the high-level
segment could be related to the theme of the coordination
segment, respecting decisions already made by the
Council, thus enabling the Council to address both
the policy and system-wide coordination aspects
of the theme;
44. Invites ECOSOC to consider modalities for implementing
necessary arrangements regarding the cross-sectoral
thematic issues;
45. Invites functional commissions and relevant
follow up mechanisms, as appropriate, to contribute,
from their specific perspectives, to the assessment
by Economic and Social Council of the cross-sectoral
thematic issue selected for the coordination segment,
including through the possible participation of
their chairpersons, suitably mandated, in the discussions
of the cross sectoral thematic issue in the Council;
46.
Requests each Functional Commission to examine its
methods of work in order to pursue better the implementation
of outcomes of the Conferences, recognizing that
there is no need for a uniform approach since each
functional commission has its own specificity, while
also noting that modern methods of work can better
guarantee the review of progress in implementation
at all levels, on the basis of a report with recommendations
to be submitted by the Secretary-General to each
functional commission and relevant subsidiary bodies
of ECOSOC on their methods of work in accordance
with the provisions defined by the respective outcomes
and relevant decisions taken by each body, bearing
in mind progress recently achieved in this regard
by certain commissions, especially CSD. The functional
commissions and other relevant bodies of ECOSOC
should report to ECOSOC no later than 2005 on the
outcome of this examination;
47.
Underscores that the functional commissions, when
mandated, should continue to have the primary responsibility
for the review and assessment of progress made in
implementing UN conference documents while taking
on a new focus in their methods of work;
48.
Invites the Functional Commissions to consider in
their deliberations experiences and lessons learned
by the United Nations Funds and Programmes in the
implementation the outcomes of major UN conferences
and summits;
49.
Urges ECOSOC to make better use of the existing
consolidated report by the Secretary-General on
the Commissions’ work and to dedicate more
time to its review;
50.
Requests the Statistical Commission to refine and
finalize indicators to assess the implementation
of commitments and the achievement of the development
goals at national, regional and international levels;
51.
Recognizes the role of the Commission on Science
and Technology for Development, in the area of science
and technology for development, as a forum for improving
the understanding of science and technology issues
and for the formulation of recommendations and guidelines
on science and technology matters within both the
United Nations system and the framework of integrated
and coordinated implementation of the outcomes of
the major United Nations conferences and summits;
52.
Invites the United Nations regional commissions
in collaboration with other regional and subregional
organizations and processes, as appropriate to contribute,
within their mandates, to the review of progress
in the implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes
of major United Nations conferences and summits
and to provide input to the ECOSOC discussions on
the cross sectoral thematic issues to be addressed
in the coordination segment, in accordance with
the rules of procedure of ECOSOC;
53. Invites the organizations of the United Nations
system, including the Bretton Woods institutions
as well as the World Trade Organization, to contribute,
within their respective mandates, to the Economic
and Social Council’s consideration of the
cross sectoral thematic issue;
54. Invites the CEB to contribute to the Economic
and Social Council’s consideration of the
cross sectoral thematic issue;
55. Emphasizes that the contribution of non-governmental
organizations and the private sector to the work
of the Economic and Social Council should be further
encouraged and improved, in accordance with the
rules of procedures of the Council;
2.3
The role of the UN System including specialized
agencies
56.
Calls for making the maximum use of the existing
coordination mechanisms of the UN system in order
to contribute to the integrated and coordinated
implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes
and commitments of the major UN conferences and
summits in the economic, social and related fields
as a focus on the international agenda;
3.
Consideration of the work of the Plenary of the
General Assembly and its Second and Third Committees
relevant to the implementation of and follow-up
to the major UN conferences and summits, including
the modalities of reports presented to the General
Assembly
57.
Stresses the need to enhance the GA’s role
in conference follow-up and in reviewing progress
on implementation, by ensuring that the working
methods of its plenary sessions and Committees allow
maximum focus, visibility and political energy in
its work;
58. Decides to continue to explore ways and means
for improving the work of the Second and Third Committees,
including through more active participation of the
United Nations system and all relevant intergovernmental
stakeholders;
59. Notes that the consideration by the Second Committee
and the Third Committee as well as by the Plenary
of the General Assembly of relevant agendas items
should be coherent with the process of integrated
and coordinated implementation of and follow up
to the major United Nations conferences and summits
in the economic and social fields;
60. Reiterates the need to promote greater coherence
and complementarity between the work of the GA Plenary,
Second and Third Committees. For this purpose the
General Committee of the General Assembly should
ensure better coordination of the agendas of the
Second and Third Committees. The two bureaux should
review their respective programmes of work in order
to exchange information on the issues discussed
in each, identify potential areas of overlap or
duplication and examine means of considering in
a more coordinated manner issues related to the
follow up of the major United Nations conferences
and make recommendations thereon to their respective
committees;
61. Recommends that consideration be given to the
use of joint informal debate that can inform the
work of each Committee. Better use could be made
of the GA plenary debate for issues that are considered
by both committees;
62. Recommends in this context the consideration
by the Second Committee at its 58th session of the
indicative programme of work set out in the Annex,
and to make a decision by December 2003;
63. Invites the Bureau of the Second Committee to
ensure a practical and coherent organization of
the work of the Committee, allowing better focus,
visibility and participation;
64. Encourages the United Nations system to continue
to improve its reports and to make them more analytical
and action-oriented, by highlighting critical areas
requiring action by the General Assembly and, as
appropriate, by making specific recommendations.
All documents should be provided in hard copy within
the specific timetables and page limits and in all
official United Nations languages simultaneously.
Efforts should continue to be made to have all the
documentation, in all official languages, available
in electronic form;
65. Underlines that reports under the agenda items
of the Second and Third Committees should continue
to follow established reporting procedures, taking
into account processes launched by res. 57/300;
66. Recognizes the need to avoid requesting duplicative
reports from the Secretary-General;
67. Recommends that debates in the plenary, Second
and Third Committees be more interactive and encourages
the participation of relevant stakeholders in accordance
with the rules and procedures of the General Assembly.
In this regard, invites the bureaus to consider
greater use of round tables, briefings and panels
to inform the intergovernmental deliberations;
68. Reiterates that in order to strengthen the link
between debates and resolutions in the Second Committee,
draft resolutions should continue to be tabled shortly
after the relevant debates on the agenda items and
should take account of the debates;
69. Recommends also that in order to ensure that
they have greater political impact, resolutions
should be short, in particular as regards pre-ambular
parts and focus more on action-oriented operative
paragraphs;
70. Underlines that consideration should be given
to the bi- or tri-ennialisation of agenda items;
4.
How best to address the review of the implementation
of the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences
and summits, including format and periodicity
71.
Conference reviews and appraisals should assess
the progress made in implementation of commitments
and provide the occasion to reaffirm the goals and
objectives agreed at the major United Nations conferences
and summits, share best practices and lessons learned,
and identify obstacles and constraints encountered,
actions and initiatives to overcome them and important
measures for the further implementation of their
programmes of action as well as new challenges and
emerging issues;
72. Recognizes that the United Nations conferences
and summits play a crucial role in raising awareness,
mobilizing political will, public opinion, engaging
civil society and the private sector and to take
stock of the implementation of the outcomes of the
major United Nations conferences and summits by
all relevant stakeholders at all levels;
73. Emphasizes that the periodicity and the format
of the review of implementation of the outcomes
of the major United Nations conferences and summits,
should be decided on a case-by-case basis by the
General Assembly, bearing in mind the relevant specific
provisions, taking into account the needs, concerns
and specific nature of the issue and the economic
and political circumstances and developments and
also bearing in mind the need to continue efforts
to use the existing structures as well as the calendar
of major UN events;
74. Emphasizes that the review processes should
be focused on implementation;
75. Stresses that there is scope for a major event
in 2005, possibly a comprehensive review, which
could be politically attractive and powerful, bearing
in mind that the General Assembly has decided to
review in 2005 the progress achieved towards implementing
all the commitments made in the Millennium Declaration
on the basis of a comprehensive report of the Secretary
General.
Annex Indicative programme of work (2nd
Committee)
1.
Macroeconomic policy questions
a)
International trade and development
b) Science and technology for development
c) International financial system and development
d) External debt crisis and development
e) Commodities
2.
Implementation of and follow-up to the Monterrey
Consensus
a)
Follow-up to 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 (58th)
c) High-level dialogue on strengthening international
economic cooperation for development through partnership
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3.
Globalization and interdependence
4.
Eradication of poverty, capacity building and other
development issues
a)
Implementation of the First United Nations Decade
for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006)
b) Women in development
c) Human resources development (58th)
d) International migration and development (58th)
e) Culture and development (59th)
f) Preventing and combating corrupt practices and
transfer of funds of illicit origin and returning
such assets to the countries of origin
g) Training and research
United Nations Institute for Training and Research
United Nations System Staff College in Turin, Italy
(58th)
United Nations University (59th)
h) Implementation of the Declaration on International
Economic cooperation, in particular the Revitalization
of Economic Growth and Development of the Developing
countries, and implementation of the International
Development Strategy for the Fourth United Nations
Development Decade
i) Industrial development cooperation (59th)
5.
Sustainable development
a)
Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the
Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes
of the World Summit on Sustainable Development
b) Further implementation of the Programme of Action
for the Sustainable Development of Small Island
Developing States
c) International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
d) Protection of global climate for present and
future generations of mankind
e) Sustainable mountain development
f) United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable
Development
g) Promotion of new and renewable sources of energy,
including the implementation of the World Solar
Programme 1996-2005 (58th)
h) Implementation of the United Nations Convention
to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing
Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly
in Africa
i) Convention on Biological Diversity
6. Habitat
a)
Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations
conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT II) and
of the 25th special session of the General Assembly
7.
Operational activities for development
a)
Operational activities for development of the United
Nations system
b) Triennial Policy Review of Operational Activities
for Development of the United Nations system (59th)
c) Economic and technical cooperation among developing
countries (58th)
8.
Groups of countries in special situations
a)
Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed
Countries
b) Specific actions relating to the particular needs
and problems of landlocked developed countries (58th)
c) Outcome of the International Ministerial Conference
of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and
Donor Countries and International Financial and
Development Institutions on Transit Transport Cooperation
d) Integration of the economies in transition into
the world economy (59th)
9.
Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people
in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including
East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the
occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources
10.
Report of the Economic and Social Council
