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Stressing also the importance of substantively connecting, in ascending order,
the spring high-level meeting of the Economic and Social Council with the Bretton
Woods institutions and the World Trade Organization, which will address the issue
of coherence, coordination and cooperation, and the reconstituted High-Level
Dialogue in the General Assembly, which will serve as the focal point for the
follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development and will
include a policy dialogue on the implementation of the results of the Conference,
including the theme of coherence and consistency of the international monetary,
financial and trading systems in support of development,
Recognizing the link between financing for development and attaining
internationally agreed development goals and objectives, including those contained
in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 3 in measuring development progress
and helping to guide development priorities, as well as achieving sustained
economic growth and sustainable development, bearing in mind the Plan of
Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg
Plan of Implementation”), 4
1.
Stresses that the High-Level Dialogue, as the intergovernmental focal
point for the general follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for
Development and related issues, should contribute to promoting coherence among
policies of development, finance and monetary and trade organizations within the
framework of the holistic agenda of the Conference with respect to eradicating
poverty and achieving sustained economic growth and sustainable development and
an equitable global economic system;
2.
Decides to reconstitute the current high-level dialogue on strengthening
international cooperation for development through partnership as the High-Level
Dialogue on financing for development so that it may become the intergovernmental
focal point for the general follow-up to the International Conference on Financing
for Development and related issues;
3.
Also decides to hold the High-Level Dialogue biennially at the
ministerial level;
4.
Agrees to hold the High-Level Dialogue at the end of October 2003 on a
specific date to be determined by the President of the General Assembly, after
consultations with relevant stakeholders, so as to facilitate ministerial participation
and the participation of heads of international financial and trade institutions and
other relevant organizations;
5.
Decides that the overall theme of the High-Level Dialogue will be “The
Monterrey Consensus: status of implementation and tasks ahead”;
6.
Also decides that the duration of the High-Level Dialogue will be two
days and that it will consist of an innovative series of plenary and informal meetings
to constitute a policy dialogue and interactive round tables with the participation of
the relevant stakeholders. The Dialogue should be well prepared, including through
appropriate intergovernmental consultations. The two days will consist of:
(a) The first day, devoted to informal meetings for eight interactive round
tables, with the participation of all relevant stakeholders, following the format
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See resolution 55/2.
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 2, annex.
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