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2. Emphasizes the urgency of placing the goals of social development as contained in the Copenhagen
Declaration and the Programme of Action at the centre of economic policy-making, including policies
influencing domestic and global market forces and the global economy;
3. Also emphasizes the need for revitalized economic and social development everywhere within a
framework that places people at the centre of development and aims to meet human needs rapidly and more
effectively by, inter alia, enhancing positive interaction between economic and social policies, and stresses
the need for strong, sustained political will at the national, regional and international levels to invest in
people and their well-being in order to achieve the objectives of social development;
Special session of the General Assembly and its preparatory process
4. Recalls its resolution 50/161, in which it decided to hold a special session in 2000 for an overall
review and appraisal of the implementation of the outcome of the Summit and to consider further actions and
initiatives;
5. Reiterates its invitation to Member States to participate in the special session at the highest political
level possible and in the meantime to continue to extend support to the preparatory process;
6. Also reiterates its invitation to the regional commissions, in accordance with their mandates and
in cooperation with the regional intergovernmental organizations and banks, to continue to be involved in
and to support the implementation of the objectives of the Summit, and welcomes in this context the holding
of regional meetings for the preparation of the special session;
7. Reiterates once again that the objectives of the special session will be to reaffirm the Declaration
and the Programme of Action agreed at the Summit and not to renegotiate them, to identify progress made
and constraints therein, as well as lessons learned, in the implementation of the Declaration and the
Programme of Action at the national, regional and international levels and to recommend concrete actions
and initiatives to further efforts towards full and effective implementation of the Declaration and the
Programme of Action;
8. Reaffirms the need for effective partnership and cooperation between Governments, international
organizations, the relevant actors of civil society, including the private sector, social partners and nongovernmental organizations, in the implementation of and follow-up to the Declaration and the Programme
of Action and in the preparatory process of the special session;
9. Takes note of the report on the first session of the Preparatory Committee for the Special Session,3
established by the General Assembly in its resolution 52/25;
10. Reiterates its invitation to all relevant organs, funds and programmes, as well as the specialized
agencies of the United Nations system, including the Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade
Organization, to continue to contribute to and be actively involved in the preparatory process and the special
session, and in this regard takes note in particular of the decision of the Preparatory Committee on the role
of the United Nations system,4 in which it invited all relevant organs and specialized agencies of the United
Nations system and other concerned organizations, within their mandates, to elaborate and submit review
3
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 45 and corrigendum and
addendum (A/54/45 and Corr.1 and Add.1).
4
Ibid., chap. VI, sect. B, para. 72, decision 1.