United Nations A/RES/59/249 General Assembly Distr.: General 7 March 2005 Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 89 (c) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2004 [on the report of the Second Committee (A/59/487/Add.3)] 59/249. Industrial development cooperation The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 46/151 of 18 December 1991, 49/108 of 19 December 1994, 51/170 of 16 December 1996, 53/177 of 15 December 1998, 55/187 of 20 December 2000 and 57/243 of 20 December 2002 on industrial development cooperation, Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted by Heads of State and Government on 8 September 2000, 1 Reaffirming the outcomes of the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, held in Doha from 9 to 14 November 2001, 2 the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, held in Brussels from 14 to 20 May 2001, 3 the International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Monterrey, Mexico, from 18 to 22 March 2002, 4 and the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 26 August to 4 September 2002, 5 Recognizing the role of the business community, including the private sector, in enhancing the dynamic process of the development of the industrial sector, and underlining the importance of the benefits of foreign direct investment in that process, Recognizing also the importance of the transfer of technology to the developing countries and countries with economies in transition as an effective means of international cooperation in the pursuit of poverty eradication and sustainable development, _______________ 1 See resolution 55/2. A/C.2/56/7, annex. 3 A/CONF.191/13. 4 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. 5 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 1, annex, and resolution 2, annex. 2 04-49120