Provisional Programme of Work of the 2nd Committee for 2004

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A Decision of the General Assembly, published in 2004.

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At its 78th plenary meeting, on 23 December 2003, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Second Committee:56

(a) Approved the provisional programme of work of the Second Committee for the fifty-ninth session as set out in the annex to the present decision;

(b) Invited the Bureau of the Second Committee to continue its efforts in consultation with Member States with a view to ensuring a more practical and coherent organization of the Committee’s work, including the programme of work for future sessions, allowing better focus, visibility and participation, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 57/270 B of 23 June 2003, and to make suggestions for a decision at the fifty-ninth session of the Assembly.

Provisional programme of work of the Second Committee for 200459

Macroeconomic policy questions:

International trade and development;

International financial system and development;

54 A/58/487, para. 14. 55 A/58/168. 56 A/58/495 and Corr.1, para. 18. 57 A/58/3 (Parts I and II) and (Part II)/Corr.1 and Add.1 and 2. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 3. 58 A/58/151. 59 In accordance with established practice and in pursuance of General Assembly decision 38/429, the Second Committee will hold a general debate each year at the beginning of its work. (c)

External debt crisis and development;

Commodities (fifty-ninth session).

Implementation of and follow-up to the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development:

Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development;

High-level dialogue for the implementation of the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development (fifty-eighth session).60

Sustainable development:

Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development;

Further implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States;

International Strategy for Disaster Reduction;

Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind;

Sustainable development in mountain regions (fiftyeighth session);

Promotion of new and renewable sources of energy,

including the implementation of the World Solar Programme 1996–2005 (fifty-eighth session);

Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification,

Particularly in Africa;

Convention on Biological Diversity;

United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.

Implementation of the outcome of the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and of the twenty-fifth special session of the General Assembly.

Globalization and interdependence:

Globalization and interdependence;

Science and technology for development (fiftyeighth session);

60 Also an item in the plenary.

International migration and development (fifty-ninth session);

Preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer of funds of illicit origin and returning such assets to the countries of origin;

Culture and development (fifty-ninth session);

Integration of the economies in transition into the world economy (fifty-ninth session).

Groups of countries in special situations:

Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries;

Specific actions related to the particular needs and problems of landlocked developing countries:

outcome of the International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and Donor Countries and International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit Transport Cooperation.

Eradication of poverty and other development issues:

Implementation of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997–2006);

Women in development;

Human resources development (fifty-eighth session);

Implementation of the Declaration on International Economic Cooperation,

in particular the Revitalization of Economic Growth and Development of the Developing Countries, and implementation of the International Development Strategy for the Fourth United Nations Development Decade;

Industrial development cooperation (fifty-ninth session).

Operational activities for development:

Operational activities for development of the United Nations system;

Triennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system (fifty-ninth session);

South-South cooperation; economic and technical cooperation among developing countries (fiftyeighth session).

Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources.

Training and research:

United Nations Institute for Training and Research;

United Nations System Staff College in Turin, Italy (fifty-eighth session);

United Nations University (fifty-ninth session).

Report of the Economic and Social Council.

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