United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/59/57*
Distr.: General
30 March 2005
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 55
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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 2 December 2004
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/59/L.38 and Add.1)]
59/57.
A Fair Globalization: Creating Opportunities for All - report
of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of
Globalization
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the resolve expressed in the United Nations Millennium
Declaration 1 to ensure that globalization becomes a positive force for the people of
the entire world,
Recalling the commitment in the Millennium Declaration to ensure greater
policy coherence and better cooperation between the United Nations, its agencies,
the Bretton Woods institutions and other multilateral bodies, with a view to
achieving a fully coordinated approach to the problems of peace and development,
Recalling also its resolution 58/225 of 23 December 2003, in which it stressed
the need for the United Nations to continue to address the social dimension of
globalization and took note of the work of the World Commission on the Social
Dimension of Globalization,
Recognizing the support expressed at the International Conference on
Financing for Development 2 and the World Summit on Sustainable Development 3
for the work of the International Labour Organization on the social dimension of
globalization,
Acknowledging the work of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of
Globalization, co-chaired by the President of Finland and the President of the
United Republic of Tanzania and facilitated by the International Labour
Organization,
Recognizing the contribution of the implementation of the commitments
agreed in the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits,
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* Reissued for technical reasons.
1
See resolution 55/2.
2
See 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).
3
See 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).
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