International financial system and development
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consensus on guidelines for debtor and creditor responsibilities in borrowing by and
lending to sovereigns, building on existing initiatives;
7.
Invites, in this regard, the President of the General Assembly and the
Secretary-General to give appropriate consideration to the central role of maintaining
and facilitating the financial and macroeconomic stability of developing countries,
including debt sustainability, and of supporting an appropriately enabling domestic
and international economic, financial and regulatory environment for the means of
implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including financial
inclusion, and in this regard invites all major institutional stakeholders, including the
International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development, to support these efforts, in accordance with their respective
mandates;
8.
Encourages, in this regard, the Economic and Social Council to consider,
at its annual forum on financing for development follow-up, a discussion and analysis
of systemic issues and challenges, taking into account the roles of the international
financial institutions, including the International Monetary Fund, and of the United
Nations Conference on Trade and Development, in accordance with their respective
mandates, pursuant to the relevant resolutions on this matter, including its resolution
69/313 on the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on
Financing for Development and the mandate of the annual forum on financing for
development follow-up set out therein;
9.
Resolves to strengthen the coherence and consistency of multilateral
financial, investment, trade and development policy and environment institutions and
platforms and to increase cooperation between major international institutions, while
respecting mandates and governance structures, and commits itself to taking better
advantage of relevant United Nations forums for promoting universal and holistic
coherence and international commitments to sustainable development, building on
the vision of the Monterrey Consensus, with a view to supporting the implementation
of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
10. Recalls that countries must have the flexibility necessary to implement
countercyclical measures and pursue tailored and targeted responses to the various
types of shocks, including economic and financial crises, and calls for conditionalities
to be streamlined to ensure that they are timely, tailored and targeted and that they
support developing countries in the face of financial, economic and development
challenges;
11. Notes, in this regard, the increase in resources and the improvement of the
lending framework of the International Monetary Fund through, inter alia, streamlined
conditions and flexible instruments, such as the precautionary a nd liquidity line, the
flexible credit line and the rapid financing instrument, and the refinement of the
lending framework for low-income countries, while also noting that new and ongoing
programmes should not contain unwarranted procyclical conditionalit ies;
12. Invites the multilateral development banks and other international
development banks to continue to provide both concessional and non -concessional,
stable, long-term development finance by leveraging contributions and capital and by
mobilizing resources for developing countries from multiple sources, for example
from capital markets, and stresses that development banks should make optimal use
of their resources and balance sheets, consistent with maintaining their financial
integrity, and should update and develop their policies in support of the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development, including the Sustainable Development Goals, as
appropriate;
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