Economic and Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries

A/RES/57/263View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 88 Operational activities for development, published in 2003.

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?

19 subjects

Anniversaries Capacity Building Consultations Donor Countries Economic Cooperation Among Developing Countries Economic Research Financial Institutions Information Exchange Institution Building International Days International Decades Pledging Conferences Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Regional Cooperation Resources Allocation Resources Mobilization Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries Trust Funds

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on measures to promote and facilitate South-South cooperation;³

³A/57/155.

Notes with satisfaction that developing countries have succeeded in setting elaborate action plans for South-South cooperation, and urges developing countries and their partners to intensify South-South and triangular initiatives contributing to the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration;⁴

⁴See resolution 55/2.

Encourages developing countries to strengthen their national coordination mechanisms in order to improve the effectiveness of South-South and triangular cooperation, and in this connection also encourages other bilateral and multilateral development partners to do the same, as appropriate;

Reiterates the urgent need to help to strengthen institutions and centres of excellence in the South, especially at the regional and interregional levels, with a view to making more effective use of such entities towards improved South-South knowledge-sharing, networking, capacity-building, information exchange, policy analysis and coordinated action among developing countries on major issues of common concern;

Recommends that the High-level Committee on the Review of Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries review all aspects of South-South cooperation relevant to development;

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 Member States and relevant organizations and agencies, to carry out a study, within existing resources, with a view to promoting public awareness of the importance and contribution of South-South and triangular cooperation with respect to achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration and, in this context, to make concrete proposals to promote and facilitate South-South cooperation and to raise such public awareness, inter alia, on the value added and implications of the proposed international decade on South-South cooperation and the United Nations day for South-South cooperation, and to submit the findings and recommendations thereon to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session;

Reiterates the emphasis placed in the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development⁵ on the need for multilateral and bilateral financial and development institutions to intensify efforts, inter alia, to strengthen South-South and triangular cooperation as delivery tools for assistance to developing countries and countries with economies in transition;⁶

⁵Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.

⁶Ibid., para. 43.

Takes note of decision 2002/18 of 27 September 2002, taken by the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme and of the United Nations Population Fund,⁷ in which the Board decided to allocate a fixed annual amount of 3.5 million dollars to the Special Unit for Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries;

⁷See DP/2003/2.

Calls upon all relevant United Nations organizations and multilateral institutions to intensify their efforts to effectively mainstream the use of South-South cooperation in the design, formulation and implementation of their regular programmes, and to consider increasing allocations of human, technical and financial resources for South-South cooperation;

Recognizes the need to mobilize additional resources for enhancing South-South cooperation, and, in this context, invites all countries, in particular developed countries, to contribute in support of such cooperation through, inter alia, the Pérez-Guerrero Trust Fund for Economic and Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries and the Voluntary Trust Fund for the Promotion of South-South Cooperation, bearing in mind the need for these Funds to continue to use such resources in an effective manner, and decides to include the latter fund in the United Nations Pledging Conference for Development Activities, as long as it exists;

Requests the Secretary-General to include in the agenda of the thirteenth session of the High-level Committee on the Review of Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries a special segment to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and Implementing Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries.⁸

⁸Report of the United Nations Conference on Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries, Buenos Aires, 30 August–12 September 1978 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.78.II.A.11 and corrigendum), chap. I.

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