South-South cooperation A/RES/72/237 Committee decision 19/1 of 19 May 2016 and decision 2016/13 of 10 June 2016 of the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Office for Project Services; 15 29. Recognizes the need to mobilize adequate resources for enhancing SouthSouth and triangular cooperation, and in this context invites all countries in a position to do so to contribute, in support of such cooperation, to the United Nations Fund for South-South Cooperation and to the Pérez-Guerrero Trust Fund for South-South Cooperation, in accordance with its resolution 57/263 of 20 December 2002, and to support other initiatives for all developing countries, including technology transfer among developing countries on mutually agreed terms; 30. Requests the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation to continue to effectively provide the secretariat required by States in marking the fortieth anniversary of the adoption in 1978 of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and Implementing Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries; 31. Recognizes the need to strengthen and further invigorate South-South cooperation, in this regard reiterates its decision to convene the Second High -level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the adoption of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action, to be held in Buenos Aires from 20 to 22 March 2019; 32. Calls upon all Member States to participate fully and constructively in the High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation to be held in Buenos Aires in 2019, and welcomes the Secretary-General’s recommendation to the United Nations system to provide substantive inputs to inform discussions among the States in preparation for the Conference, through the United Nations Office for SouthSouth Cooperation as Conference secretariat; 33. Welcomes the generous offer by the Government of Argentina to host and assume all costs of the High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation; 34. Calls upon the relevant organizations of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates and resources, to ensure that no one is left behind and no country is left behind in the implementation of the present resolution; 35. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-third session, under the item entitled “Operational activities for development”, the sub-item entitled “South-South cooperation for development”, unless otherwise agreed, and requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session a comprehensive report on the state of South-South cooperation, including an assessment of the concrete measures taken by the United Nations development system to improve its support to South-South cooperation at the global, regional and national levels, as appropriate, and on the implementation of the present resolution, including all aspects set out in paragraph 28 above, on an exceptional basis and without setting any precedent for future reports of the Secretary-General. 74th plenary meeting 20 December 2017 __________________ 15 17-23315 See DP/2016/19. 7/7