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Social Council to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session in the context of the triennial policy review
of operational activities for development of the United Nations system;
4. Invites the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the Special Unit for
Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries of the United Nations Development Programme, as well
as other relevant organizations, taking into account their agreed mandates, work programmes and priorities,
to undertake jointly further work on formulating concrete recommendations on the implementation of and
follow-up to the San José Declaration and Plan of Action4 adopted by the Group of 77 at the South-South
Conference on Trade, Investment and Finance;
5. Stresses the need to intensify the process of strengthening the various interregional dialogues and
the exchange of experiences among subregional and regional economic groupings for the purposes of
expanding South-South cooperation through integrating the modalities of economic and technical cooperation
among developing countries;
6. Calls upon all Governments and relevant United Nations organizations, including the multilateral
financial institutions, to consider increasing allocations for economic and technical cooperation among
developing countries and to identify new funding modalities to promote South-South cooperation, such as
triangular cooperation and private sector funding;
7. Welcomes the contribution made by some countries to the Voluntary Trust Fund for the Promotion
of South-South Cooperation, and invites all countries, including developed countries, to contribute to the
Trust Fund;
8. Urges the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, and invites other relevant
intergovernmental organizations involved in international development cooperation, to make concerted and
vigorous efforts to mainstream the implementation of modalities of economic and technical cooperation
among developing countries by giving them full consideration in the design, formulation, implementation and
evaluation of programmes and projects in their operational activities;
9. Decides to hold a one-day commemorative meeting at the beginning of the fifty-third session of the
General Assembly, in accordance with the relevant paragraphs of the first report of the General Committee,11
to mark the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for
Promoting and Implementing Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries,1 and to that effect requests
the Special Unit for Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries, in its capacity as substantive
secretariat of the High-level Committee on the Review of Technical Cooperation among Developing
Countries and system-wide coordinator on technical cooperation among developing countries, to be
responsible for the preparation and organization of the commemorative meeting, including the provision of
adequate documentation, in consultation with Member States and relevant organizations and agencies of the
United Nations system;
10. Also decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third session an item entitled
"Commemorative meeting of the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action
for Promoting and Implementing Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries";
11. Requests the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Special Unit for Technical Cooperation
among Developing Countries and in consultation with Member States and relevant organizations and agencies
of the United Nations system, to incorporate into his report for the triennial policy review of operational
activities for development, for consideration at the fifty-third session of the General Assembly, an assessment
and recommendations aimed at further strengthening the integration of the modalities of economic and
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