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2.
Reiterates the call to fully implement and to build further on the
commitments made and agreements reached at the International Conference on
Financing for Development; 4
3.
Notes the progress made in the implementation of these commitments
and agreements and that much remains to be done in this context;
4.
Emphasizes the link between financing for development and the
achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including those
contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration; 5
5.
Stresses, in order to complement national development efforts, the
importance of full implementation of the commitment to enhance further the
coherence and consistency of international monetary, financial and trading systems,
and in this context requests the Secretary-General to keep actions under review;
Recognizes initiatives taken to enhance the voice, participation and
6.
representation of developing countries and countries with economies in transition in
the work and decision-making processes of the intergovernmental bodies of
institutional stakeholders, and invites them to continue and strengthen actions aimed
at reaching decisions in this regard;
Invites the World Trade Organization to strengthen its institutional
7.
relationship with the United Nations, in particular through its active involvement in
the meetings of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council
devoted to financing for development, and through its participation in the
preparation of the annual report on the implementation of and follow-up to the
commitments made and agreements reached at the International Conference on
Financing for Development;
Welcomes the decisions by the major institutional stakeholders of the
8.
International Conference on Financing for Development to include in the agendas of
their intergovernmental bodies relevant items on the implementation of the
Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for
Development, 6 and invites all major institutional stakeholders to consider doing so,
in accordance with paragraph 70 of the Monterrey Consensus, and to make a
contribution to the assessment of progress made to the High-level Dialogue on
Financing for Development of the General Assembly and to the spring meeting of
the Economic and Social Council;
Requests the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, in
9.
cooperation with other relevant stakeholders, to continue to address in a
comprehensive way commodities issues and their impact on financing for
development;
10. Requests the Economic and Social Council, in its examination of the
report of the Ad Hoc Group of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters
at its next substantive session to give consideration to the institutional framework
for international cooperation in tax matters;
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4
See 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).
5
See resolution 55/2.
6
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.
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