United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/59/250*
Distr.: General
17 August 2005
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 90 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2004
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/59/488/Add.1)]
59/250. Triennial comprehensive policy review of operational
activities for development of the United Nations system
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 44/211 of 22 December 1989, 47/199 of 22 December
1992, 50/120 of 20 December 1995, 52/203 of 18 December 1997, 52/12 B of
19 December 1997, 53/192 of 15 December 1998 and 56/201 of 21 December 2001,
as well as Economic and Social Council resolutions 2002/29 of 25 July 2002,
2003/3 of 11 July 2003 and 2004/5 of 12 July 2004, and other relevant resolutions,
Reaffirming the importance of the triennial comprehensive policy review of
operational activities, through which the General Assembly establishes key systemwide policy orientations for the development cooperation and country-level
modalities of the United Nations system,
Recalling the role of the Economic and Social Council in providing
coordination and guidance to the United Nations system to ensure that those policy
orientations are implemented on a system-wide basis in accordance with Assembly
resolutions 48/162 of 20 December 1993, 50/227 of 24 May 1996 and 57/270 B of
23 June 2003,
Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration of 8 September 2000, 1
including the development and poverty eradication goals contained therein, and recalling
further the International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Monterrey,
Mexico, from 18 to 22 March 2002, and the World Summit on Sustainable
Development, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 26 August to 4 September
2002 and other major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic,
social and related fields, and their importance for international development
cooperation, in particular for the operational activities for development of the
United Nations system,
Noting, in this context, the activities of the United Nations funds and
programmes aimed at providing technical assistance to recipient countries, in
response to their national economic and social needs and priorities, including
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* Reissued for technical reasons.
1
See resolution 55/2.
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