A/RES/48/165 Page 3 manifested in several documents, especially the Declaration on International Economic Cooperation, in particular the Revitalization of Economic Growth and Development of the Developing Countries, 1/ the International Development Strategy for the Fourth United Nations Development Decade, 2/ the Declaration on the Right to Development, 3/ the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, 4/ the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s, 5/ the Cartagena Commitment, 6/ the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development 7/ and Agenda 21, 8/ Also convinced of the importance of continuing to build upon the spirit of cooperation and partnership for development through constructive dialogue among all countries, in particular between the developed and developing countries, for the purpose of promoting an international economic environment conducive to sustainable development, 1. Reaffirms the need to strengthen constructive dialogue and partnership in order to promote further international economic cooperation for development; 2. Also reaffirms that such a dialogue should be conducted in response to the imperatives of mutual interests and benefits, genuine interdependence, shared responsibilities and the partnership for sustainable development as established at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, 9/ and that the United Nations system should play a central role in facilitating such a dialogue; 3. Further reaffirms that the United Nations has a central role to play in promoting international cooperation for development and in bringing development issues to the attention of the international community; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session an analysis and recommendations on ways and means to promote such a dialogue, reflecting the ongoing work on an agenda for development and taking into account the progress achieved in fulfilment of the commitment referred to in the eighth preambular paragraph above. 86th plenary meeting 21 December 1993 __________ 9/ Ibid., vol. I: Resolutions adopted by the Conference, vol. II: Proceedings of the Conference, and vol. III: Statements made by Heads of State or Government at the Summit Segment of the Conference.

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