A/RES/60/34 3. Recognizes the importance of the efforts of Governments to foster public participation in governance and development processes through cooperating with all stakeholders in their societies, including the private sector, civil society and nongovernmental organizations; Stresses that national efforts to improve governance, public 4. administration and institutional and managerial capacities are essential to enable Member States to achieve the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and encourages Member States to increase their efforts in this regard; Encourages the international community to increase support for national 5. efforts, including those of developing countries, in public administration, including through North-South cooperation, South-South cooperation and public-private partnership to, inter alia, provide financial, educational, material and technical support and cooperation as appropriate; Requests all Member States to abide by the principles of proper 6. management of public affairs and public property, fairness, responsibility and equality before the law and the need to safeguard integrity and foster a culture of transparency, accountability and rejection of corruption at all levels and in all its forms, consistent with the United Nations Convention against Corruption, 2 and in that regard urges Member States that have not yet done so to consider enacting laws to accomplish those ends; Agrees that the United Nations should promote innovation in government 7. and public administration, and stresses the importance of making more effective use of United Nations Public Service Day and the United Nations Public Service Awards in the process of revitalizing public administration by building a culture of innovation, partnership and responsiveness; Requests the Secretary-General to continue to facilitate, through the 8. United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance, the dissemination of information, knowledge and valuable practices in public administration; Stresses the valuable contribution that the Global Forum on Reinventing 9. Government has made to the exchange of lessons learned in public administration reform; 10. Takes note with appreciation of the Seoul Declaration on Participatory and Transparent Governance, which was adopted by the participants in the sixth Global Forum on Reinventing Government, held in Seoul from 24 to 27 May 2005; 3 11. Expresses its appreciation to the Government of the Republic of Korea for hosting the sixth Global Forum on Reinventing Government; 12. Emphasizes the importance of the seventh Global Forum on Reinventing Government, to be hosted by the United Nations in 2007, which will highlight the importance of improving public administration in order to achieve the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals; _______________ 2 3 2 Resolution 58/4, annex. A/60/391, annex.

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