A/RES/59/275 Regulations and Rules Governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation; 11 Strategic framework for the period 2006–2007 Recalling paragraph 5 of its resolution 58/269, in which it requested the Secretary-General to prepare, on a trial basis, a strategic framework, which would comprise in one document a plan outline, reflecting the longer-term objectives of the Organization, and a biennial programme plan, to cover two years, Notes that the proposed strategic framework for the period 2006–2007 1. constitutes the first proposal submitted since the adoption of its resolution 58/269; 2. Also notes that the Committee for Programme and Coordination at its fortyfourth session recommended that the General Assembly review part one, plan outline, of the proposed strategic framework for the period 2006–2007; 12 3. Recalls its decision in resolution 58/269 to review, with a view to taking a final decision at its sixty-second session, the format, content and duration of the strategic framework, including the necessity of maintaining part one; Decides, in view of the differences between Member States on the content of 4. part one: plan outline of the proposed strategic framework for the period 2006–2007, to take no decision on part one; Requests the Secretary-General to prepare and propose a plan outline, 5. reflecting the longer-term objectives of the Organization, and a biennial programme plan in the context of the strategic framework for the biennium 2008–2009, based, inter alia, on the following principal criteria: (a) The longer-term objectives consistent with all the relevant legislative mandates in all areas of the activities of the United Nations; (b) Outcomes of the intergovernmental conferences and summits; (c) Inputs from relevant programme managers; (d) Use of intergovernmentally agreed terms and expressions; 6. Invites the Committee for Programme and Coordination to consider at its forty-fifth session additional guidelines, if any, for the preparation of the plan outline; 7. Decides that the priorities for the period 2006–2007 shall be the following: (a) Maintenance of international peace and security; (b) Promotion of sustained economic growth and sustainable development in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and recent United Nations conferences; (c) Development of Africa; (d) Promotion of human rights; (e) Effective coordination of humanitarian assistance efforts; (f) Promotion of justice and international law; _______________ 11 ST/SGB/2000/8. See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/59/16), para. 65. 12 2