United Nations A/RES/57/264 General Assembly Distr.: General 30 January 2003 Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 88 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Second Committee (A/57/533)] 57/264. Human Development Report The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 56/201 of 21 December 2001 on the triennial policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system, Recalling also its resolution 49/123 of 19 December 1994 on the United Nations Development Programme and the Human Development Report, Reaffirming decisions 94/15 of 10 June 1994 1 and 95/24 of 16 June 1995 2 of the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Population Fund on the Human Development Report, Recognizing that the United Nations Development Programme funds, publishes, launches and promotes the Human Development Report and disseminates it internationally, Acknowledging that the Human Development Report is an important tool for raising awareness about human development around the world, Recalling that the Human Development Report is the result of an independent intellectual exercise and that the policies governing the operational activities for development of the United Nations system will continue to be set by Member States, 1. Affirms that the Human Development Report is a separate and distinct exercise which is not an official document of the United Nations and that the policies governing the operational activities for development of the United Nations system will continue to be set by Member States; 2. Welcomes decision 2002/18 of 27 September 2002 of the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Population Fund on programming arrangements for the period 2004–2007, through which a fixed annual amount of regular resources was allocated to finance the Human Development Report Office; 3. Reaffirms Executive Board decision 94/15,1 by which it welcomed the decision of the Administrator to improve the process of consultation with Member _______________ 1 2 02 55672 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1994, Supplement No. 15 (E/1994/35/Rev.1). Ibid., 1995, Supplement No. 14 (E/1995/34).