Responding to Global Threats and Challenges

A/RES/57/145View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 44 Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit, published in 2003.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2003–2004

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/58/16

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2004	A/RES/58/16	Responding to global threats and challenges	415	19%Compare
2003	A/RES/57/145	Responding to global threats and challenges	439	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

19 subjects

Consultations Cooperation Between Organizations Counter-Terrorism Crime Prevention Development Disarmament Dispute Settlement Environmental Protection Humanitarian Assistance Information Exchange International Security Organized Crime Peacekeeping Operations Peacemaking Poverty Mitigation Regional Organizations Report Preparation Terrorism Transnational Crime

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

Acknowledges the importance of further adapting the United Nations to address the threats and challenges of the twenty-first century and the need to enhance the overall effectiveness and complementarity of the United Nations system in combating international terrorism and transnational organized crime, in promoting peace, security, disarmament, conflict prevention, peacekeeping, development and poverty eradication, in protecting the environment, in providing humanitarian response and in other fields, as well as the need to increase interaction between the United Nations and other international and regional organizations;

Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the executive heads of the agencies and organizations of the United Nations system, and taking into account the views of Member States and those of international and regional organizations cooperating with the United Nations, to study ways and means to promote further, with the United Nations lead, in the context of implementation of the Millennium Declaration1 in all its aspects, a more comprehensive and coherent response to the global threats and challenges of the twenty-first century;

Invites Member States and the relevant regional and other organizations to contribute their views on the issues referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 above to the Secretary-General;

Requests the Secretary-General to include his observations on the issues referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 above in his report on the follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit to be submitted to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session.

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