A/RES/57/65 goals on development issues emerging from, inter alia, the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 6 the Doha Ministerial Declaration of the World Trade Organization, adopted on 14 November 2001, 7 the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development, adopted on 22 March 2002, 8 and the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development 9 and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”), 10 adopted on 4 September 2002, Mindful of the changes in international relations that have taken place since the adoption on 11 September 1987 of the Final Document of the International Conference on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development, including the development agenda that has emerged over the past decade, Bearing in mind the new challenges for the international community in the field of development, poverty eradication and the elimination of the diseases that afflict humanity, 1. Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to resolution 56/24 E, 5 including its proposal to consider the establishment of a group of governmental experts to undertake a review of the relationship between disarmament and development in the current international context, as well as the role of the Organization in this connection; 2. Requests the Secretary-General, within available financial resources and with the assistance of a group of governmental experts to be established in 2003 on the basis of equitable geographical distribution, while seeking the views of States, to present for the consideration of the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session a report with recommendations for a reappraisal of the relationship between disarmament and development in the current international context, as well as the future role of the Organization in this connection; 3. Calls upon the high-level Steering Group on Disarmament and Development to strengthen and enhance its programme of activities, in accordance with the mandate contained in subparagraph (ix) b of paragraph 35 (c) of the action programme adopted at the International Conference on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development;2 4. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to take action, through appropriate organs and within available resources, for the implementation of the action programme; 5. Urges the international community to devote part of the resources made available by the implementation of disarmament and arms limitation agreements to economic and social development, with a view to reducing the ever widening gap between developed and developing countries; _______________ 6 See resolution 55/2. WT/MIN(01)/DEC/1. 8 Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. 9 Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August–4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I, resolution l, annex. 10 Ibid., resolution 2, annex. 7 2