A/RES/56/201 of the United Nations system 4 and on progress in the implementation of the multiyear funding frameworks and evaluation of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework; 5 2. Reaffirms its resolutions 47/199, 50/120, 53/192 and the parts relevant to operational activities for development of its resolution 52/12 B, and stresses the need to implement fully, on the basis of lessons learned, all the elements of those resolutions in a coherent and timely manner, keeping in mind their interlinkages; 3. Stresses that national Governments have the primary responsibility for their countries’ development, and recognizes the importance of national ownership of development programmes; 4. Emphasizes that recipient Governments have the primary responsibility for coordinating, on the basis of national strategies and priorities, all types of external assistance, including that provided by multilateral organizations, in order to integrate effectively such assistance into their development process; 5. Emphasizes also the need for all organizations of the United Nations development system to enhance their coordination in accordance with their mandates, mission statements and the relevant decisions of their governing bodies, in order to avoid overlapping and duplication and to enhance their complementarity; 6. Emphasizes further the need to fulfil the commitments, goals and targets set in the United Nations Millennium Declaration3 and by the major United Nations conferences, and in that context reiterates the importance of continuously monitoring progress made in that direction; 7. Stresses that the United Nations development system, in order to ensure national ownership of its operational activities for development, should integrate its country-level operations with national policies and programmes for development and poverty eradication, including, as appropriate, national poverty reduction strategies, under the leadership of the Government; 8. Also stresses that the United Nations development system should assist programme countries in addressing the goals and targets identified in the Millennium Declaration and in the outcomes and commitments of relevant major United Nations conferences, in the context of the current challenges and opportunities of globalization; 9. Welcomes the efforts undertaken so far to improve the functioning and the impact of the operational activities for development of the United Nations system, and in this regard encourages the organizations of the United Nations system to continue those efforts, with a view to improving further the effectiveness and increasing the relevance of such activities; I Role of operational activities in the context of a globalizing world 10. Stresses the need for all organizations of the United Nations development system, in accordance with their respective mandates, to focus their efforts at the field level in accordance with the priorities identified by recipient countries and the _______________ 4 5 A/56/320 and Add.1. A/56/70-E/2001/58 and Add.1 and 2. 3