United Nations
A/RES/56/201
General Assembly
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 99 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/56/562/Add.1)]
56/201. Triennial policy review of operational activities for
development of the United Nations system
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 44/211 of 22 December 1989, 47/199 of 22 December
1992, 50/120 of 20 December 1995, 52/203 of 18 December 1997, 52/12 B of
19 December 1997 and 53/192 of 15 December 1998, as well as Economic and
Social Council resolutions 1999/5 and 1999/6 of 23 July 1999, and 2000/19 and
2000/20 of 28 July 2000, and taking note of agreed conclusions 2001/1 of the
Council of 4 July 2001, 1 the ministerial declaration of the high-level segment of the
substantive session of the Council of 18 July 2001, 2 Council resolution 2001/41 of
26 July 2001 and other relevant resolutions,
Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration of 8 September
2000 3 and its importance for international development cooperation, including the
operational activities for development of the United Nations system, and in
particular the development and poverty eradication goals and targets contained
therein,
Reaffirming that the operational activities for development of the United
Nations system have an important role to play in enabling developing countries to
continue to take a lead role in the management of their own development process in
a continuously changing global context,
Reaffirming also that the fundamental characteristics of the operational
activities of the United Nations system should be, inter alia, their universal,
voluntary and grant nature, their neutrality and their multilateralism, as well as their
ability to respond to the development needs of developing countries in a flexible
manner, and that the operational activities of the United Nations system are carried
out for the benefit of recipient countries, at the request of those countries and in
accordance with their own policies and priorities for development,
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1
A/56/3, chap. V. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-sixth Session,
Supplement No. 3.
2
Ibid., chap. III, para. 29.
3
See resolution 55/2.
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