A/RES/53/181 Page 2 development, as well as for improving the international economic environment so that it is conducive to such development, and that the United Nations system should reinforce its activities in order to facilitate such a dialogue, in accordance with relevant resolutions of the General Assembly; 3. Decides to hold biennially a renewal of the high-level dialogue of the General Assembly on strengthening international economic cooperation for development through partnership, to provide impetus for the promotion of international economic cooperation for development; 4. Also decides that, building on the experience of the high-level dialogue held on 17 and 18 September 1998, the theme and the modalities of the second high-level dialogue will be decided through the intergovernmental process at the fifty-fourth session of the General Assembly; 5. Requests the Secretary-General, in close consultation with Governments, all relevant parts of the United Nations system and relevant intergovernmental organizations, to propose themes for the promotion of international economic cooperation for development for the second high-level dialogue for consideration by the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session; 6. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session, under the appropriate item, the sub-item entitled “Renewal of the dialogue on strengthening international economic cooperation for development through partnership”. 91st plenary meeting 15 December 1998