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international trade as an engine for development and increased international
financial and technical cooperation;
52. Also recognizes the special needs of and challenges faced by landlocked
developing countries, and therefore reaffirms the commitment to urgently address
those needs and challenges through the full, timely and effective implementation of
the Almaty Programme of Action: Addressing the Special Needs of Landlocked
Developing Countries within a New Global Framework for Transit Transport
Cooperation for Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries 22 and the São Paulo
Consensus, encourages the work undertaken by the regional commissions and
United Nations organizations towards establishing a time-cost methodology for
indicators to measure the progress made in the implementation of the Almaty
Programme of Action, and recognizes the special difficulties and concerns of
landlocked developing countries in their efforts to integrate their economies into the
multilateral trading system and that, in this regard, priority should be given to the
full and timely implementation of the Almaty Declaration 23 and Almaty Programme
of Action;
The United Nations and the fight against poverty
53. Calls for the full implementation of General Assembly resolution
57/270 B of 23 June 2003 on the integrated and coordinated implementation of and
follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in
the economic and social fields, which provides a comprehensive basis for the
follow-up to the outcomes of those conferences and summits and contributes to the
achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the
Millennium Development Goals, in particular the eradication of poverty and hunger;
54. Reaffirms the role of United Nations funds and programmes, in particular
the United Nations Development Programme and its associated funds, in assisting
the national efforts of developing countries, inter alia, in the eradication of poverty,
and the need for their funding in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the
United Nations;
55. Welcomes the observance of the International Day for the Eradication of
Poverty, established by the General Assembly in its resolution 47/196 of
22 December 1992 in order to raise public awareness to promote the eradication of
poverty and extreme poverty in all countries, and in this regard recognizes the
useful role the observance of the Day continues to play in raising public awareness
and mobilizing all stakeholders in the fight against poverty, and requests the
Secretary-General to undertake a review of the observance of the Day in order to
identify lessons learned and ways to promote the mobilization of all stakeholders in
the fight against poverty;
56. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-first session the
item entitled “Implementation of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication
of Poverty (1997–2006)”.
68th plenary meeting
22 December 2005
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Report of the International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and
Donor Countries and International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit Transport
Cooperation, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 28 and 29 August 2003 (A/CONF.202/3), annex I.
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Ibid., annex II.
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