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institutions, in order, inter alia, to assist in bridging the digital divide, promoting
access to information and communication technologies, creating digital
opportunities and harnessing the potential of information and communication
technologies for development, and invites the World Summit on the Information
Society to encourage all stakeholders in this regard;
18. Reiterates the need to address the specific concerns and needs of the least
developed countries and small island developing States, and in this regard calls
upon the least developed countries and their development partners, including
multilateral financial institutions, to continue to implement expeditiously the
Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010 9
and to adopt further measures to effectively integrate the least developed countries
into the global economy and the multilateral trading system;
19. Welcomes the Almaty Programme of Action, adopted at the International
Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and Donor
Countries and International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit
Transport Cooperation, held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on 28 and 29 August 2003, 10
which addresses the special needs of landlocked developing countries within a new
global framework for transit transport cooperation for landlocked and transit
developing countries, and calls upon all stakeholders fully and effectively to
implement the Programme of Action;
20. Emphasizes the importance of recognizing and addressing the specific
concerns of countries with economies in transition so as to help them to benefit from
globalization, with a view to their full integration into the world economy;
21. Invites all relevant agencies of the United Nations system, through, inter
alia, the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, within
existing resources, to review the impact of its work on the achievement of the
internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the
Millennium Declaration, and to focus its report to the Economic and Social Council
on progress made in this regard;
22. Stresses the need for the United Nations system to continue to address the
social dimension of globalization, encourages in that regard the work of the
International Labour Organization on the social dimension of globalization, and
takes note of the ongoing work of its World Commission on the Social Dimensions
of Globalization;
23. Also stresses the importance of migration as a phenomenon
accompanying increased globalization, including its impact on economies, and
underlines further the need for greater coordination and cooperation among
countries as well as relevant regional and international organizations;
24. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
fifty-ninth session a report on globalization and interdependence, in the context of
the present resolution, which should focus on ways to forge greater coherence in
order to advance the internationally agreed development goals, including those
contained in the Millennium Declaration;
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See A/CONF.191/13, chap. II.
Report of the International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and
International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit Transport Cooperation, Almaty,
Kazakhstan, 28 and 29 August 2003 (A/CONF.202/3), annex I.
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