A/RES/56/209 United Nations Distr.: General 21 February 2002 General Assembly Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 105 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Second Committee (A/56/568)] 56/209. Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 53/169 of 15 December 1998, 54/231 of 22 December 1999 and 55/212 of 20 December 2000 on the role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence, 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General; 1 2. Takes note also of the deliberations of the Preparatory Committee for the International Conference on Financing for Development, to be held at Monterrey, Mexico, from 18 to 22 March 2002; 2 3. Stresses the importance of continued substantive consideration of the item on globalization and interdependence; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session on globalization and interdependence, bearing in mind, inter alia, the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development; 5. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session the item entitled “Globalization and interdependence”. 90th plenary meeting 21 December 2001 _______________ 1 A/56/445. See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 28 (A/55/28), part two; ibid., Supplement No. 28A (A/55/28/Add.1); ibid., Supplement No. 28B and corrigendum (A/55/28/Add.2 and Corr.1); and ibid., Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 28 and corrigendum (A/56/28 and Corr.1). 2 01 49346