United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/57/250
Distr.: General
20 February 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 86 (d)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/57/531/Add.4)]
57/250. High-Level Dialogue on strengthening international
economic cooperation for development through
partnership
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 48/165 of 21 December 1993, 49/95 of 19 December
1994, 50/122 of 20 December 1995, 51/174 of 16 December 1996, 52/186 of
18 December 1997, 53/181 of 15 December 1998, 54/213 of 22 December 1999,
55/193 of 20 December 2000 and 56/190 of 21 December 2001,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General entitled “High-level
dialogue on strengthening international economic cooperation for development
through partnership”, 1
Recalling its resolution 56/210 B of 9 July 2002, in which it endorsed the
Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for
Development, which was adopted on 22 March 2002, 2
Recalling also the commitment to strengthen and make fuller use of the
General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council for the purposes of
conference follow-up and coordination,
Reaffirming the importance of continuing the dialogue to be conducted in
response to the imperative of solidarity, mutual interests and benefits, genuine
interdependence and partnership in promoting international economic cooperation
for development, and that the United Nations system should reinforce its activities
in order to facilitate such a dialogue,
Stressing the importance of staying fully engaged, nationally, regionally and
internationally, to ensure proper follow-up to the implementation of agreements and
commitments reached at the International Conference on Financing for
Development and to continue to build bridges between development, finance and
trade organizations and initiatives, within the framework of the holistic agenda of
the Conference,
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1
A/57/388.
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.
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