A/RES/54/226 Page 4 16. Reiterates its invitation to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the Special Unit for Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries, as well as other relevant organizations, taking into account their agreed mandates, work programmes and priorities, to undertake jointly further work on formulating concrete recommendations on the implementation of and follow-up to the Caracas Programme of Action,7 adopted at the High-level Conference on Economic Cooperation among Developing Countries, held at Caracas in May 1981, as an important mechanism for economic cooperation among developing countries, and the San José Declaration and Plan of Action2 adopted by the Group of 77 at the South-South Conference on Trade, Investment and Finance, as well as on the Bali Declaration on Regional and Subregional Economic Cooperation of the Developing Countries8 and the Bali Plan of Action on Regional and Subregional Economic Cooperation of the Developing Countries9 adopted by the Group of 77 High-level Conference on Regional and Subregional Economic Cooperation of the Developing Countries, held on Bali, Indonesia, from 2 to 5 December 1998, within the context of South-South cooperation; 17. Requests the United Nations system to take appropriate measures to improve the effective incorporation of technical cooperation among developing countries into its programmes and projects and to intensify efforts towards mainstreaming the modality of technical cooperation among developing countries, including through support to the activities of the Special Unit for Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries, and encourages other relevant international institutions to take similar measures; 18. Reiterates its request to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme to ensure that the separate identity of the Special Unit for Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries is maintained and that the Unit is supported so that it may fully implement its mandate and system-wide responsibilities for promoting, monitoring and coordinating technical cooperation among developing countries; 19. Stresses the need, with reference to decision 11/3 adopted by the High-level Committee on the Review of Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries at its eleventh session5 and the provisional agenda for the twelfth session of the High-level Committee approved therein, to take appropriate measures to ensure the necessary level of attendance of all member States in the meeting of the High-level Committee, including through discussions of country experiences at the field level, in terms of progress achieved, problems encountered and lessons learned; 20. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the sub-item entitled “Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries”, and in that context requests the Secretary-General, in collaboration with the Special Unit for Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, to submit to it at that session a report on the state of South-South cooperation and a comprehensive report on the implementation of the present resolution. 87th plenary meeting 22 December 1999 7 A/36/333 and Corr.1, annex. 8 A/53/739, annex I. Ibid., annex II. 9