United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/60/205
Distr.: General
16 March 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 54 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2005
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/60/490/Add.2)]
60/205. Science and technology for development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 58/200 of 23 December 2003 and 59/220 of
22 December 2004,
Recognizing the vital role that science and technology can play in development
and in facilitating efforts to eradicate poverty, achieve food security, fight diseases,
improve education, protect the environment, accelerate the pace of economic
diversification and transformation and improve productivity and competitiveness,
Recalling the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 1
Recognizing that international support can help developing countries to benefit
from technological advances and can enhance their productive capacity,
Underscoring the role that traditional knowledge can play in technological
development and in the sustainable management and use of natural resources,
Recognizing the catalysing role of information and communication
technologies in promoting and facilitating the achievement of all development
goals, and in this regard stressing the importance of the contribution of the World
Summit on the Information Society process to the building of a people-centred,
balanced and inclusive information society so as to enhance digital opportunities for
all people in order to help bridge the digital divide,
Welcoming the Tunis Commitment and the Tunis Agenda for the Information
Society of the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society, 2 and
recalling the Geneva Declaration of Principles and the Geneva Plan of Action of the
first phase of the Summit, 3
Acknowledging with appreciation the role played by the International
Telecommunication Union in the organization of the two phases of the World Summit,
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1
See resolution 60/1.
See A/60/687.
3
See A/C.2/59/3, chap. I.
2
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