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4.
Stresses the need to mobilize public support for development
cooperation, inter alia, through a strategy based on partnership between
developed and developing countries which incorporates, as appropriate,
mutually agreed goals for development;
5.
Also stresses the importance of the role of the International
Development Association as a highly concessional lending arm of the World Bank
for promoting development in eligible developing countries, and urges donors
fully to honour their commitment thereto, in particular to the eleventh
replenishment of the Association, and to secure its adequate future funding;
6.
Appeals to all countries to continue to cooperate and work
together on issues relating to the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility,
with a view to arriving at a self-sustained facility, including the provision
of bilateral contributions; if the need arises, the International Monetary
Fund should consider optimizing its reserves management in order to facilitate
financing of the Facility;
7.
Urges all international financial institutions and donor
countries, as appropriate, to continue their own efforts to improve the
quality and effectiveness of their lending, inter alia, through thorough
assessment of the contributions to sustainable development of projects
financed, effective monitoring and evaluation, and increased concessionality,
where appropriate;
8.
Requests the Secretary-General to continue to monitor developments
in the net flows and transfer of resources between developing and developed
countries and to utilize all relevant reports, such as those provided by the
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the World Bank, the
International Monetary Fund and the regional development banks, and to report
thereon in the World Economic and Social Survey, 1997, and also requests the
Secretary-General to report, in close cooperation with the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development and the Bretton Woods institutions, to the
General Assembly at its fifty-third session on the implementation of the
present resolution.
86th plenary meeting
16 December 1996