United Nations General Assembly A/RES/57/265 Distr.: General 28 February 2003 Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 89 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Second Committee (A/57/534)] 57/265. Establishment of the World Solidarity Fund The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 55/210 of 20 December 2000 and 56/207 of 21 December 2001, Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted by heads of State and Government, 1 Stressing the objectives of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997–2006), the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development, 2 the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, 3 the Political Declaration adopted by the General Assembly at its twenty-fourth special session, entitled “World Summit for Social Development and beyond: achieving social development for all in a globalizing world”, held at Geneva from 26 June to 1 July 2000, 4 and the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010, adopted at the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, held at Brussels from 14 to 20 May 2001, 5 Recalling the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development, 6 and the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development 7 and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”), 8 _______________ 1 See resolution 55/2. Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I. 3 Ibid., annex II. 4 Resolution S-24/2, annex, sect. 1. 5 A/CONF.191/11. 6 Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. 7 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. 8 Ibid., resolution 2, annex. 2 02 55678