Economic and Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries

A/RES/56/202View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 99b Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries, published in 2002.

What other versions does this mandate have?

7 versions · 1990–2004

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/58/220

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2004	A/RES/58/220	Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries	1,001	33%Compare
2003	A/RES/57/263	Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries	783	20%Compare
2002	A/RES/56/202	Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries	1,310	32%Compare
2000	A/RES/54/226	Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries	1,546	22%Compare
1998	A/RES/52/205	Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries	1,220	19%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

4 reports · 2002–2005

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2005	A/60/257	The state of South-South cooperation report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/58/220
2003	A/58/345	Raising public awareness of and support for South-South cooperation report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/57/263
2003	A/58/319	State of South-South cooperation report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/56/202
2002	A/57/155	Measures to promote and facilitate South-South cooperation report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/56/202

What subjects does this mandate have?

11 subjects

Capacity Building Economic Cooperation Among Developing Countries Institution Building International Days International Decades Public Information Report Preparation Research and Development Resources Allocation Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries Trust Funds

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Endorses the report of the High-level Committee on the Review of Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries on its twelfth session⁹ and the decisions adopted by the High-level Committee at that session;¹⁰

⁹Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 39 (A/56/39).

¹⁰Ibid., annex I.

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on the state of South-South cooperation;¹¹

¹¹A/56/465.

Notes with satisfaction the significant increase and expanded use of South-South cooperation by developing countries as an important and effective instrument of international cooperation, and in this connection urges developing countries in a position to do so to intensify technical and economic cooperation initiatives at the regional and interregional levels in areas such as health, education, training, agriculture, science and new technologies, and in particular information and communication technologies;

Reiterates that South-South cooperation should be viewed not as a substitute for but rather as a complement to North-South cooperation, and, in that connection, notes with appreciation the increasing number of developed countries and development foundations supporting South-South cooperation activities through a variety of triangular arrangements, including direct support or cost-sharing arrangements, joint research and development projects and third-country training programmes;

Emphasizes the need for concerted action by developing countries and their development partners, including relevant international organizations, with a view to strengthening cooperation and collaboration among developing countries at the subregional, regional and interregional levels;

Notes with appreciation the contributions made by a number of countries to the Voluntary Trust Fund for the Promotion of South-South Cooperation and to the Perez-Guerrero Trust Fund for Economic and Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries, and invites all countries to contribute to the trust funds in support of a revitalized South-South platform that is designed to benefit developing countries, especially the least developed, landlocked and small island developing countries;

Recognizes the need to strengthen institutions of the South, including policy research and development institutions and centres of excellence, especially at the regional and interregional levels, with a view to making more effective use of the institutional capacity of the South through, inter alia, improved South-South knowledge-sharing, networking, capacity-building and flow of information and policy analysis and coordination among developing countries on major development issues of common concern;

Requests all organizations and agencies of the United Nations development system to make concerted and intensified efforts to effectively mainstream the use of South-South cooperation by giving such cooperation appropriate consideration in the design, formulation and implementation of their regular programmes;

Calls upon all relevant United Nations organizations and multilateral institutions to consider increasing allocations of human, technical and financial resources for South-South cooperation, and in this context takes note of decision 2001/2 of the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Population Fund,¹² in which the Board requested the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme to consider reviewing, in the context of the successor programming arrangements, the allocation of additional resources for activities involving technical cooperation among developing countries, taking into account the overall financial situation and the need for appropriate resources for other activities;

¹²See DP/2001/11, para. 155.

Recognizes the need for raising public awareness of and support for South-South cooperation as a dynamic form of international development cooperation which can give real content to the concept of ownership and partnership, and, for this reason, takes note of the Tehran Consensus proposal to launch the first international decade on South-South cooperation and the United Nations day for South-South cooperation;¹³

¹³See A/56/358 and Corr.1, annex, sect. 5.

Requests the Secretary-General, through coordination of the Special Unit for Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries of the United Nations Development Programme and in consultation with relevant organizations and agencies of the United Nations system and other relevant institutions in the South, to include in the report to be submitted to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session concrete measures for promoting and facilitating South-South cooperation, taking into account all relevant initiatives and proposals in this regard;

Reiterates its request to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme to ensure that the separate identity of the Special Unit for Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries is maintained and that the Unit is supported so that it may fully implement its mandate and responsibilities as a focal point of the United Nations system for South-South cooperation;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session the sub-item entitled “Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries”, and requests the Secretary-General, in collaboration with the Special Unit for Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, to submit to it at that session a comprehensive report on the state of South-South cooperation and the implementation of the present resolution.

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