A/RES/51/178 Page 2 the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty1 and on the implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development,2 Recognizing that investment in human capital and domestic and international policies supportive of economic and social development are essential prerequisites for the eradication of poverty, Noting the activities to eradicate poverty carried out by countries, by organizations and bodies of the United Nations system and by organizations, associations, institutions and entities of civil society, within the framework of the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty, and the coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the results of the major United Nations conferences and summits organized since 1990 in the economic, social and related fields, Noting also the action to be taken within the framework of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006), Recalling its resolution 50/161 of 22 December 1995, in which it decided to hold a special session in the year 2000 for an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development3 and to consider further actions and initiatives, inter alia, towards the eradication of poverty in the world, Taking note of the agreed conclusions on coordination of the United Nations system activities for poverty eradication, adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 1996,4 as well as of the outcome of the sessions of relevant functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council in 1996, 1. Expresses its solidarity with people living in poverty in all countries and reaffirms that the satisfaction of basic human needs is an essential element of poverty eradication, those needs being closely interrelated and comprising nutrition, health, water and sanitation, education, employment, housing and participation in cultural and social life; 2. Also expresses its solidarity with those suffering from a lack of control over resources, including land, skills, knowledge, capital and social connections, and calls for particular actions to provide appropriate social services to enable vulnerable people and people living in poverty to improve their lives, to exercise their rights and to participate fully in all social, economic and political activities and to contribute to social and economic development; 1 A/51/443. 2 A/51/348. 3 See A/CONF.166/9. 4 A/51/3 (Part I), chap. III, para. 2; see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No.3 /...