Follow-Up to the Outcome of the Millennium Summit

A/RES/55/162View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 182 Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit, published in 2000.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2000–2003

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/57/144

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2003	A/RES/57/144	Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit	533	32%Compare
2002	A/RES/56/95	Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit	360	16%Compare
2000	A/RES/55/162	Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit	879	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

16 subjects

Africa Bretton Woods Institutions Coordination Within UN System Declarations Financial Assistance Information Exchange Inter-Agency Cooperation Intergovernmental Organizations Medium-Term Planning Partnership Poverty Mitigation Programme Implementation Regional Commissions Report Preparation Specialized Agencies Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

24 operative paragraphs

Calls for an integrated, coordinated, comprehensive and balanced approach in the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration at the national, regional and international levels;

Recognizes that Governments bear the main responsibility, individually and collectively, for action and implementation of the Millennium Declaration;

Calls upon the entire United Nations system to assist Member States in every way possible in the implementation of the Millennium Declaration;

Decides to use existing structures and mechanisms and upcoming events and special sessions of the General Assembly, as well as related conferences and events, to the maximum extent possible in the implementation of the Millennium Declaration, and requests the President of the General Assembly to follow up these processes;

Requests the Main Committees of the General Assembly to ensure that the outcome of the Millennium Summit is taken into account in their work;

Calls upon all relevant organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to become involved in the follow-up to the Summit, and invites specialized agencies and related organizations of the United Nations system to strengthen and adjust their activities, programmes and medium-term strategies, as appropriate, to take into account the follow-up to the Summit;

Invites the regional commissions, in cooperation with regional intergovernmental organizations and regional development banks, to review progress made towards implementing the Millennium Declaration;

Requests the United Nations system to take action to meet the special needs of Africa and to strengthen the broad range of its engagement in Africa, with a view to intensifying support for poverty eradication and sustainable development, for combating diseases and pandemics and for the process of conflict prevention and the consolidation of democracy;

Recognizes that the implementation of the Millennium Declaration will require resources and adequate financing at the national, regional and international levels and that additional financial resources are needed, in particular in Africa and the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States;

Requests the appropriate bodies to consider urgently how the implementation of the Millennium Declaration should relate to the biennial budget process and the medium-term plan;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure system-wide coordination to assist with the implementation of the Millennium Declaration, and invites him to identify, within the framework of the Administrative Committee on Coordination, innovative ways of enhancing cooperation and coherence throughout the United Nations system;

Invites the Bretton Woods institutions to become involved actively in the implementation of and follow-up to the Summit and to enhance their cooperation with other parts of the United Nations system for coherent implementation of the Millennium Declaration;

Invites the World Trade Organization to contribute to the implementation of the Millennium Declaration;

Calls for enhanced partnership and cooperation with national parliaments as well as civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, as set out in the Millennium Declaration, to ensure their contribution to the implementation of the Declaration;

Requests the specialized agencies, the Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organization to keep the General Assembly informed about how they contribute to the implementation of the Millennium Declaration;

Requests that the events and conferences referred to in paragraph 4 above keep the General Assembly informed about how they contribute to the implementation of the Millennium Declaration;

Reiterates the call to assess, on a regular basis, progress towards implementing the Millennium Declaration;

Requests the Secretary-General urgently to prepare a long-term “road map” towards the implementation of the Millennium Declaration within the United Nations system and to submit it to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session;

Also requests the Secretary-General to prepare a comprehensive report every five years, supplemented by an annual report on progress achieved towards implementing the Millennium Declaration, taking into account the following:

The annual reports should reflect the broad array of specific goals and commitments enunciated in the Millennium Declaration, though each could explore in greater depth one or two areas covered in the Declaration;

All reports should focus, in this respect, on the results and benchmarks achieved, identify gaps in implementation and strategies for reducing them, and highlight in particular cross-sectoral issues and cross-cutting themes on development and peace and security;

Reports should draw on the work of the entire United Nations system, including the Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organization;

The reporting system should be appraised with a view to strengthening its coherence and integration;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the item entitled “Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit”.

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