United Nations
A/RES/57/243
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 February 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 85
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/57/530)]
57/243. Industrial development cooperation
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 46/151 of 18 December 1991, 49/108 of 19 December
1994, 51/170 of 16 December 1996, 53/177 of 15 December 1998 and 55/187 of
20 December 2000 on industrial development cooperation,
Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted by heads of
State and Government on 8 September 2000, 1
Reaffirming the outcomes of the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the World
Trade Organization, held at Doha from 9 to 14 November 2001, 2 the Third United
Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, held at Brussels from 14 to
20 May 2001, 3 the International Conference on Financing for Development, held at
Monterrey, Mexico, from 18 to 22 March 2002, 4 and the World Summit on
Sustainable Development, held at Johannesburg, South Africa, from 26 August to
4 September 2002, 5
Noting that the United Nations Industrial Development Organization has been
awarded by the Global Environment Facility Council the status of an executing
agency with expanded opportunities of the Global Environment Facility,
Recognizing the role of the business community, including the private sector,
in enhancing the dynamic process of the development of the industrial sector, and
underlining the importance of the benefits of foreign direct investment in that
process,
Recognizing also the importance of the transfer of technology to the
developing countries and countries with economies in transition as an effective
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1
See resolution 55/2.
A/C.2/56/7, annex.
3
A/CONF.191/11 and 12.
4
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.
5
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 1, annex, and resolution 2, annex.
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