A/RES/56/210 United Nations Distr.: General 21 February 2002 General Assembly Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 107 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Second Committee (A/56/570)] 56/210. International Conference on Financing for Development The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 46/205 of 20 December 1991, 48/187 of 21 December 1993, 50/93 of 20 December 1995, 52/179 of 18 December 1997, 53/173 of 15 December 1998, 54/196 of 22 December 1999 and 55/213 of 20 December 2000 on the high-level international intergovernmental consideration of financing for development, Recalling also its resolution 55/245 A of 21 March 2001, on convening an International Conference on Financing for Development, in which it accepted with gratitude the generous offer of Mexico to host the Conference, which is to be held at Monterrey from 18 to 22 March 2002, 1. Takes note of the deliberations of the Preparatory Committee for the International Conference on Financing for Development at its first, second and third substantive sessions; 1 2. Stresses the importance of continued substantive consideration of the item on financing for development; 3. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session on the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development; 4. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session the item entitled “High-level international intergovernmental consideration of financing for development”. 90th plenary meeting 21 December 2001 _______________ 1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 28 (A/55/28), part two; ibid., Supplement No. 28A (A/55/28/Add.1); ibid., Supplement No. 28B and corrigendum (A/55/28/Add.2 and Corr.1); and ibid., Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 28 and corrigendum (A/56/28 and Corr.1). 01 49352