A/RES/54/201 Page 5 of proven technologies to enable developing countries to make effective choices in state-of-the-art technologies; 20. Encourages the United Nations system to ensure, where appropriate in its operational activities, the provision for the transfer of appropriate technical know-how and technological skills to developing countries; 21. Reaffirms the need for adequate financial resources on a continuous and assured basis to foster science and technology for development, in particular to promote endogenous capacity-building in developing countries in accordance with their priorities; 22. Emphasizes the need to reduce regulatory limitations on the transfer of technology, particularly to developing countries, and stresses the importance of identifying barriers to and unjustifiable restrictions on the transfer of technologies, with a view to addressing such constraints while creating specific incentives, fiscal and otherwise, for the transfer of new and innovative technologies; 23. Recognizes the importance of cooperation among developing countries in the field of science and technology, building on their complementarities, and the need to advance further such cooperation through the establishment or strengthening of national technology and information centres in developing countries and their networking on subregional, regional, interregional and global levels to promote technology research, training and dissemination as well as joint projects in developing countries, urges the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system and other relevant international, regional and subregional organizations and programmes to provide continued and enhanced support through technical assistance and financing for such efforts, calls for further cooperation between centres of excellence, universities and research institutions, and urges the international community to support such initiatives, where appropriate, through financial and technical assistance; 24. Also recognizes the importance of maintaining mutually beneficial scientific and technological cooperation between and among developing countries and countries with economies in transition; 25. Invites the relevant bodies of the United Nations system to provide assistance and to promote cooperation in the areas of partnership and networking, biotechnology, and information and communication technologies, including in the design and implementation of national strategies on such technologies or mechanisms; 26. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly for consideration at its fifty-fifth session, through the Economic and Social Council, without prejudice to the periodicity of this item, proposals for strengthening the coordination of mechanisms on the Commission on Science and Technology for Development within the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in order to ensure coordination of the various efforts and activities in the area of new and innovative technologies, in particular information and communication technologies, and their applications, such as in electronic commerce, with the objective of promoting complementarity of activities within the United Nations system; 27. Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session a report on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution. 87th plenary meeting /...