United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/60/204
Distr.: General
13 March 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 54 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2005
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/60/490/Add.1)]
60/204. Role of the United Nations in promoting development in
the context of globalization and interdependence
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 53/169 of 15 December 1998, 54/231 of 22 December
1999, 55/212 of 20 December 2000, 56/209 of 21 December 2001, 57/274 of
20 December 2002, 58/225 of 23 December 2003 and 59/240 of 22 December 2004
on the role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of
globalization and interdependence,
Recalling also the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 1
Recalling further its resolution 57/270 B of 23 June 2003 on the integrated and
coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United
Nations conferences and summits in the economic and social fields,
Reaffirming the resolve expressed in the United Nations Millennium
Declaration 2 to ensure that globalization becomes a positive force for all the world’s
people,
Recognizing that globalization and interdependence have opened new
opportunities for the growth of the world economy and development, that
globalization offers new perspectives for the integration of developing countries into the
world economy and that it can improve the overall performance of the economies of
developing countries by opening up market opportunities for their exports, by
promoting the transfer of information, skills and technology and by increasing the
financial resources available for investment in physical and intangible assets,
acknowledging that globalization has also brought new challenges for growth and
sustainable development and that developing countries have been facing special
difficulties in responding to them, recognizing that some countries have successfully
adapted to the changes and benefited from globalization but that many others, especially
the least developed countries, have remained marginalized in the globalizing world
economy, and recognizing also that, as stated in the Millennium Declaration, the
benefits are very unevenly shared, while the costs are unevenly distributed,
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See resolution 60/1.
See resolution 55/2.