United Nations A/RES/56/181 General Assembly Distr.: General 24 January 2002 Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 95 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Second Committee (A/56/558/Add.2)] 56/181. Towards a strengthened and stable international financial architecture responsive to the priorities of growth and development, especially in developing countries, and to the promotion of economic and social equity The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 55/186 of 20 December 2000, entitled “Towards a strengthened and stable international financial architecture responsive to the priorities of growth and development, especially in developing countries, and to the promotion of economic and social equity”, 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General entitled “International financial architecture and development, including net transfer of resources between developing and developed countries”; 1 2. Takes note also of the deliberations of the Preparatory Committee for the International Conference on Financing for Development, 2 which is to be held at Monterrey, Mexico, from 18 to 22 March 2002; 3. Stresses the importance of continued substantive consideration of the sub-item on the international financial system and development; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session a report on the international financial system and development, bearing in mind, inter alia, the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development; 5. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session, under the item entitled “Macroeconomic policy questions”, the sub-item entitled “International financial system and development”. 90th plenary meeting 21 December 2001 _______________ 1 A/56/173 and Add.1 and 2. See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 28 (A/55/28), part two; ibid., Supplement No. 28A (A/55/28/Add.1); ibid., Supplement No. 28B and corrigendum (A/55/28/Add.2 and Corr.1); and ibid., Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 28 and corrigendum (A/56/28 and Corr.1). 2 01 49171