A/RES/57/247
Recognizing also the continuing need to ensure favourable conditions for
market access of exports from countries with economies in transition, in accordance
with multilateral trade agreements,
Recognizing further the important role foreign direct investment should play in
those countries, and stressing the need to create an enabling environment, both
domestically and internationally, to attract more foreign direct investment to those
countries,
Noting the aspiration of the countries with economies in transition towards the
further development of regional and interregional cooperation,
1.
Welcomes the measures taken by the organizations of the United Nations
system to implement General Assembly resolutions on the integration of the
economies in transition into the world economy;
2.
Calls upon the organizations of the United Nations system, including the
Bretton Woods institutions, in collaboration with relevant non-United Nations
multilateral and regional institutions, to continue to conduct analytical activities and
provide policy advice and technical assistance to the Governments of the countries
with economies in transition aimed at strengthening the social, legal and political
framework for completing market-oriented reforms with a view to sustaining the
positive trends and reversing any declines in the economic and social development
of those countries, and, in this regard, emphasizes the importance of their further
integration into the world economy, taking into account, inter alia, the relevant
provisions of the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on
Financing for Development, 1 the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable
Development 4 and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable
Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”); 5
3.
Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
fifty-ninth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, with
particular focus on an analysis that would determine the progress achieved in the
integration of countries with economies in transition into the world economy.
78th plenary meeting
20 December 2002
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4
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.
5
Ibid., resolution 2, annex.
2