Report of the Committee for Development Policy on Its 18th Session

E/RES/2016/21View PDF

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A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 18a Sustainable development, published in 2016.

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2026	E/RES/2026/6	Report of the Committee for Development Policy on its 28th session	—	–
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Development Strategies Graduation Least Developed Countries

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Takes note of the report of the Committee for Development Policy on its eighteenth session;³

³Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2016, Supplement No. 13 (E/2016/33).

Notes with appreciation the work done by the Committee on productive capacity for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, in accordance with the theme of the high-level segment of the 2016 session of the Economic and Social Council, on the themes selected by the Committee on total official support for sustainable development, on the monitoring of the development progress of countries that are graduating or have graduated from the list of least developed countries, and on its review of a proposal for a graduation toolkit to further improve the capacity of least developed countries to address the implications of graduation in a systematic way;

Requests the Committee, at its nineteenth session, to examine and make recommendations on the annual theme of the 2017 session of the Council;

Also requests the Committee to monitor the development progress of countries that have graduated from the category of least developed countries, in accordance with paragraph 21 of General Assembly resolution 67/221;

Further requests the Committee to monitor the development progress of countries graduating from the category of least developed countries and to include its findings in its annual report to the Council;

Reiterates the invitation by the General Assembly, as stated in its resolution 67/221, for graduating countries to prepare their national transition strategy with the support of the United Nations system and in cooperation with their bilateral and multilateral development and trading partners and to report annually to the Committee on the preparation of that strategy;

Acknowledges with satisfaction the contributions made by the Committee to the various aspects of the programme of work of the Council, reiterates its invitation for increased interactions between the Council and the Committee, and encourages the Chair and, as necessary, other members of the Committee, to continue this practice, as specified in Council resolution 2011/20 of 27 July 2011, within existing resources and as appropriate.

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