Conference on South-South Cooperation, 16 - 19 December 2003, Marrakech
The High-level
Conference on South-South Cooperation was held in Marrakech, Morocco,
from 16 to 19 December 2003. It adopted the Marrakech Declaration and
the Framework of Implementation of South-South Cooperation. The Conference
stressed that the implementation of South-South Cooperation depends upon
its adequate integration in national, sub-regional and regional as well
as international cooperation policies and strategies. The Conference also
agreed with the implementation of various measures and initiatives. The
Declaration and the Framework of Implementation of South-South Cooperation
gave special attention to the issues of LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS.
Marrakech
Framework of Implementation of South-South Cooperation:
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11. Supporting activities and measures, in particular in the framework
of WTO related to the access to markets of developed countries of products
of developing countries, taking into account, inter alia, the needs of
LDCs and highly indebted developing countries to overcome their critical
situation.
34. Supporting bilateral initiatives undertaken by some developing countries
for debt cancellation to benefit LDCs and in this regard encouraging other
developing countries to also undertake further initiatives to strengthen
solidarity with this most vulnerable group of developing countries.
35. Continuing
also all initiatives aimed at enhancing market access for the products
of export interest to the LDCs and calling for further similar initiatives
by developing countries.
36. Promoting
initiatives in favour of the least developed countries in the context
of South-South cooperation by implementing projects in areas such as human
and productive capacity building, technical assistance, exchange of best
practices, particularly in issues relating to health, education, professional
training, environment, science and technology, trade, investment and transit
transport cooperation.
37. Encouraging,
in the framework of implementation of the Almaty Programme of Action,
the landlocked developing countries and the transit developing countries
to continue intensifying their collaboration and cooperation through existing
transit arrangements and agreements among them. In this regard, calling
on donor countries and multilateral financial and development institutions
to ensure effective implementation of Almaty Programme of Action by providing
LLDCs and transit developing countries with appropriate financial and
technical assistance.
38. Enhancing
policies to support SIDS efforts to meet the significant challenges posed
by their structural vulnerabilities, and calling on the international
community to honour and renew their commitments to the Barbados Programme
of Action and to support all efforts being undertaken by SIDS, including
through South-South cooperation, to attain the international development
goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration.
39. Continuing
to pay special attention to the situation of post-conflict developing
countries, in particular LDCs, with a view to enabling them to rehabilitate
and reconstruct, as appropriate, political, social and economic infrastructures
and to assist them in achieving their development priorities.
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Marrakech
Declaration on South-South Cooperation:
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