United Nations
A/RES/64/188
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 February 2010
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 51 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2009
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/64/418/Add.1)]
64/188. International trade and development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 56/178 of 21 December 2001, 57/235 of 20 December
2002, 58/197 of 23 December 2003, 59/221 of 22 December 2004, 60/184 of
22 December 2005, 61/186 of 20 December 2006, 62/184 of 19 December 2007 and
63/203 of 19 December 2008 on international trade and development,
Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 1 as well as the
outcomes of the International Conference on Financing for Development, 2 the World
Summit on Sustainable Development, 3 the 2005 World Summit Outcome 4 and the
Doha Declaration on Financing for Development, 5
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Recalling further the Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and
Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development, 6
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Reaffirming the value of multilateralism to the global trading system and the
commitment to achieving a universal, rule-based, open, non-discriminatory and
equitable multilateral trading system that contributes to growth, sustainable
development and employment generation in all sectors, and emphasizing that
bilateral and regional trading arrangements should contribute to the goals of the
multilateral trading system,
Stressing the importance of open, transparent, inclusive, democratic and more
orderly processes and procedures for the effective functioning of the multilateral
trading system, including in the decision-making process, so as to enable developing
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1
See resolution 55/2.
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.
3
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.
4
See resolution 60/1.
5
Resolution 63/239, annex.
6
Resolution 63/303, annex.
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