Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 88
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 48/165 of 21 December 1993 on
renewal of the dialogue on strengthening international economic
cooperation for development through partnership,
Noting with interest the reports of the Secretary-General
on an agenda for development, as requested in its resolutions
47/181 of 22 December 1992 and 48/166 of 21 December 1993, A/48/689,
A/48/935 and A/49/665.
Noting with interest also the role of the Secretary-General
in encouraging all countries to engage in a constructive dialogue
for advancing development and in facilitating their efforts in
that regard,
Stressing the importance of a fruitful dialogue to ensure
a favourable political and economic environment for advancing
international cooperation for development,
1. Welcomes with appreciation the note by the Secretary-General
on the renewal of the dialogue on strengthening international
economic cooperation for development through partnership; A/49/542.
2. Reaffirms the need to strengthen constructive dialogue
and partnership in order to promote further international economic
cooperation for development;
3. Also reaffirms that such a dialogue should be conducted
in response to the imperatives of mutual interests and benefits,
genuine interdependence, shared responsibility and the partnership
for achieving sustained economic growth and sustainable development
as well as improving the international economic environment that
is conducive to such development, and that the United Nations
system should play a central role in facilitating such a dialogue;
4. Further reaffirms that the United Nations has a central
role to play in promoting international cooperation for development
and in bringing development issues to the attention of the international
community, and requests the Secretary-General, drawing upon statements
made by Member States on various economic and social issues within
the context of the debates on those issues held in the General
Assembly and the Economic and Social Council, to propose for consideration
various issues or themes that represent mutual interests, which
would involve benefit to all countries and which are also relevant
to the elaboration of an agenda for development;
5. Invites the working group on the agenda for development
to give consideration to the proposal of the Secretary-General
that advantage be taken of the presence of high-level representatives
during the early part of the sessions of the General Assembly
to conduct a dialogue and to convene special sessions of the Assembly
on major themes relevant to the current and emerging economic
and social issues in the global agenda, including those identified
under the agenda for development;
6. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report on
the implementation of the present resolution to the General Assembly
at its fiftieth session;
7. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its
fiftieth session an item entitled "Renewal of the dialogue
on strengthening international economic cooperation for development
through partnership".
92nd plenary meeting
19 December 1994