United Nations
A/RES/57/235
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 January 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 84 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/57/529/Add.1)]
57/235. International trade and development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 55/182 of 20 December 2000 and 56/178 of
21 December 2001 on international trade and development,
Recalling also the Plan of Action adopted at the tenth session of the United
Nations Conference on Trade and Development, held at Bangkok from 12 to
19 February 2000, 1
Reaffirming the role of the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development 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,
Taking note of the outcome of the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the World
Trade Organization, held at Doha from 9 to 14 November 2001, 2 and noting that the
Fifth Ministerial Conference, to be held at Cancún, Mexico, in September 2003, will
take stock of progress in the negotiations,
Recalling the provisions of the United Nations Millennium Declaration3
dealing with trade and related development issues, as well as the outcomes of the
International Conference on Financing for Development, held at Monterrey, Mexico,
from 18 to 22 March 2002, 4 and the World Summit on Sustainable Development,
held at Johannesburg, South Africa, from 26 August to 4 September 2002, 5
Reiterating the importance of continued trade liberalization in developed and
developing countries, including in sectors of export interest to developing countries,
and bearing in mind paragraph 10 of resolution 55/182,
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1
TD/390, part II.
A/C.2/56/7, annex.
3
See resolution 55/2.
4
Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March
2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
5
Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August–
4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I, resolution
1, annex, and resolution 2, annex.
2
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