A/RES/56/202 Plan of Action, adopted by the Group of 77 at the South-South Conference on Trade, Investment and Finance, held at San José from 13 to 15 January 1997, 3 the Bali Declaration and the Bali Plan of Action on Regional and Subregional Economic Cooperation of the Developing Countries, adopted by the Group of 77 High-level Conference on Regional and Subregional Economic Cooperation of the Developing Countries, held in Bali, Indonesia, from 2 to 5 December 1998, 4 and the Declaration of the South Summit and the Havana Programme of Action, adopted by the South Summit of the Group of 77, held at Havana from 10 to 14 April 2000, 5 which accorded South-South cooperation high priority in order for developing countries to meet new development challenges, as well as other relevant declarations and plans of action, Taking note of the Ministerial Declaration adopted by the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the States members of the Group of 77 at their twenty-fifth annual meeting, held in New York on 16 November 2001, 6 in which the increased importance and relevance of South-South cooperation was emphasized, Taking note also of the Tehran Consensus, adopted at the Tenth Meeting of the Intergovernmental Follow-up and Coordination Committee on Economic Cooperation among Developing Countries of the Group of 77, held at Tehran from 18 to 22 August 2001, 7 which called for consolidating the South-South platform, building stronger South institutions at the global level, bridging the knowledge and information gap, building broad-based partnerships and mobilizing global support for South-South cooperation, 1. Endorses the report of the High-level Committee on the Review of Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries on its twelfth session 8 and the decisions adopted by the High-level Committee at that session; 9 2. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on the state of South-South cooperation; 10 3. Notes with satisfaction the significant increase and expanded use of South-South cooperation by developing countries as an important and effective instrument of international cooperation, and in this connection urges developing countries in a position to do so to intensify technical and economic cooperation initiatives at the regional and interregional levels in areas such as health, education, training, agriculture, science and new technologies, and in particular information and communication technologies; 4. Reiterates that South-South cooperation should be viewed not as a substitute for but rather as a complement to North-South cooperation, and, in that connection, notes with appreciation the increasing number of developed countries and development foundations supporting South-South cooperation activities through a variety of triangular arrangements, including direct support or cost-sharing _______________ 3 A/C.2/52/8, annex. A/53/739, annexes I and II. 5 A/55/74, annexes I and II. 6 A/56/647, annex. 7 A/56/358 and Corr.1, annex. 8 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 39 (A/56/39). 9 Ibid., annex I. 10 A/56/465. 4 2