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spring high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade
Organization and relevant work at its substantive session, the annual report of the
Secretary-General on the follow-up efforts to the commitments of the International
Conference on Financing for Development and the report of the Secretary-General
on the implementation of the Millennium Declaration;
11. Encourages Governments, the United Nations system and all other
relevant stakeholders at all levels to support adequate preparations for the HighLevel Dialogue on financing for development;
12. Invites the Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organization
as well as relevant organizations of the United Nations system to participate in the
High-Level Dialogue, including in the preparatory phase, and invites the President
of the Economic and Social Council, the President of the World Bank, the Managing
Director of the International Monetary Fund, the Director-General of the World
Trade Organization and the heads of other relevant regional and international
intergovernmental organs to participate actively in the Dialogue;
13. Requests the Secretary-General, in close cooperation with all relevant
entities of the United Nations, including the regional commissions, the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development and the United Nations Development
Programme, in consultation with the regional development banks, other relevant
regional entities, the Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organization, to
support regional consultations in preparations for the High-Level Dialogue;
14. Invites Governments to enhance coordination among ministries of foreign
affairs, finance, development cooperation and trade, as well as central banks and all
other national stakeholders, for the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus2 and
related issues and the follow-up thereto, including preparations for the High-Level
Dialogue;
15. Encourages greater participation of non-governmental organizations and
business sector entities at the interactive round tables and informal meetings of the
plenary of the High-Level Dialogue in accordance with the rules of procedure of the
General Assembly, and decides that:
(a)
Accreditation will be open to:
(i) All non-governmental organizations that are in consultative status with
the Economic and Social Council;
(ii) All non-governmental organizations and business sector entities that
were accredited to the International Conference on Financing for
Development;
(b) Interested non-governmental organizations and business sector entities
that are not in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council or were not
accredited to the International Conference on Financing for Development shall
apply to the General Assembly for accreditation following the accreditation
procedure established during the International Conference on Financing for
Development; 5
(c) The above arrangements concerning participation of non-governmental
organizations and business sector entities in the High-Level Dialogue will in no way
create a precedent for other meetings of the General Assembly;
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See resolutions 54/279 and 55/245 B.
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