United Nations A/RES/57/236 General Assembly Distr.: General 22 January 2003 Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 84 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Second Committee (A/57/529/Add.2)] 57/236. Commodities The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 55/183 of 20 December 2000, and stressing the urgent need to ensure its full implementation, Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted by heads of State and Government on 8 September 2000, 1 Taking note of the relevant provisions of the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”),2 Taking note also of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010 3 and The Least Developed Countries Report, 2002, 4 Taking note further of the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development, 5 Taking note of the targets set out in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the Plan of Action of the World Food Summit6 and the outcome document of the World Food Summit: five years later,7 which reaffirms the pledge to end hunger, Taking note also of the Ministerial Declaration of the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, held at Doha from 9 to 13 November 2001,8 _______________ 1 See resolution 55/2. 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 2, annex. 3 A/CONF.191/11. 4 United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.D.13. 5 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. 6 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the World Food Summit, 13– 17 November 1996 (WFS 96/REP), part one, appendix. 7 Ibid., Report of the World Food Summit: five years later, 10–13 June 2002, part one, appendix; see also A/57/499, annex. 8 A/C.2/56/7, annex. 2 02 55504