Economic and Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries

A/RES/58/220View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 97b Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries, published in 2003.

What other versions does this mandate have?

7 versions · 1990–2004

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

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Programme 7	Economic and social affairs	291

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Programme 7	Economic and social affairs	291	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

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

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12 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the High-level Committee on the Review of Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries on its thirteenth session,³ endorses the decisions adopted by the High-level Committee at that session,⁴ and decides to change the name of the Committee to High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation, with no change in its mandate or in the scope of its activities;

³Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 39 (A/58/39).

⁴Ibid., annex I.

Takes note of the reports of the Secretary-General on the state of South-South cooperation⁵ and on raising public awareness of and support for South-South cooperation;⁶

⁵A/58/319.

⁶A/58/345.

Reaffirms the need to strengthen further, within its available resources, the Special Unit for South-South Cooperation of the United Nations Development Programme as a separate entity and a focal point for South-South cooperation within the United Nations system, recognizes that its activities should be perceived as an integral part of the overall development policy of the United Nations system and the United Nations Development Programme, and in this context calls upon United Nations funds and programmes and other entities of the United Nations development system to intensify efforts to mainstream technical and economic cooperation among developing countries by using relevant national, regional and international mechanisms in consultation with Member States;

Notes with interest that South-South cooperation can have a positive impact on global, regional and national policies and actions in the economic, social and development fields in the developing countries, and urges developing countries and their partners to intensify South-South and triangular cooperation in these areas, as they contribute to the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration;⁷

⁷See resolution 55/2.

Recognizes that regional integration initiatives between developing countries constitute an important and valuable form of South-South cooperation and that regional integration is a step towards beneficial integration into the world economy;

Also recognizes the urgent need to help to strengthen the capacities of the developing countries, especially the least developed countries, to participate in and benefit from globalization and liberalization processes, and to this end welcomes the initiatives being undertaken at the subregional, regional, interregional and global levels towards establishing public-private partnership mechanisms aiming to enhance and expand South-South cooperation in trade and investment, and in this context notes the initiatives of the World Trade Forum;

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 and best practices exchanges, policy analysis and coordinated action among developing countries on major issues of common concern, and in this context encourages such institutions and centres of excellence, as well as regional and subregional economic groupings, to establish closer links and bridges among themselves, including through the Web of Information for Development of the Special Unit for South-South Cooperation;

Notes with interest the holding of the High-level Conference on South-South Cooperation in Marrakesh, Morocco, from 16 to 19 December 2003, and calls upon developing countries, and encourages their development partners and relevant international organizations, to participate actively in the Conference in order to ensure its success and increase the momentum and intensity of South-South cooperation;

Urges 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 supporting South-South cooperation initiatives, and in this regard takes note of the initiatives contained in the Havana Programme of Action adopted by the first South Summit⁸ and the follow-up to the High-level Conference on South-South Cooperation in Marrakesh, as well as the preparations for the second South Summit in 2005;

⁸A/55/74, annex II.

Recognizes the need to mobilize additional resources for enhancing South-South cooperation, reiterates in this context its decision in its resolution 57/263 of 20 December 2002 to include the Voluntary Trust Fund for the Promotion of South-South Cooperation in the United Nations Pledging Conference for Development Activities, as long as it exists, and in the same manner decides to include the Pérez-Guerrero Trust Fund for Economic and Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries in the same Pledging Conference, and invites all countries, in particular developed countries, to support South-South and triangular cooperation through, inter alia, these funds, bearing in mind the need for these funds to continue to use such resources in an effective manner;

Decides to declare 19 December, the date on which the General Assembly endorsed the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and Implementing Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries,⁹ as the United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation;

⁹Report 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.

Also decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixtieth session a sub-item entitled “South-South cooperation for development”, and requests the Secretary-General to submit at that session a comprehensive report on the state of South-South cooperation and on the implementation of the present resolution.

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