Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 88
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the validity of the objectives and commitments
with regard to international economic cooperation and development
adopted by the General Assembly and other United Nations bodies,
especially the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and Implementing
Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries, Report 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.
the Declaration on International Economic Cooperation, in particular
the Revitalization of Economic Growth and Development of the Developing
Countries, Resolution S-18/3, annex. the International Development
Strategy for the Fourth United Nations Development Decade, Resolution
45/199, annex. the United Nations New Agenda for the Development
of Africa in the 1990s, Resolution 46/151, annex, sect. II. the
Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the
1990s, Report of the Second United Nations Conference on the Least
Developed Countries, Paris, 3-14 September 1990 (A/CONF.147/18),
part one. the Cartagena Commitment,
See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development, Eighth Session, Report and Annexes (TD/364/Rev.1)
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.II.D.5), part one,
sect. A. the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development Report
of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development,
Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992 (A/CONF.151/26/Rev.1 (Vol. I and
Vol. I/Corr.1, Vol. II, Vol. III and Vol. III/Corr.1)) (United
Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigenda), vol.
I: Resolutions adopted by the Conference, resolution 1, annex
I. and Agenda 21, Ibid., annex II. and the Programme of Action
of the International Conference on Population and Development
A/CONF.171/13 and Add.1, chap. I, resolution 1, annex. which provide
an overall framework for furthering international economic cooperation
for development,
Taking note of the Ministerial Declaration of the Group
of 77, A/49/462 and Corr.1, annex. adopted on the occasion of
the eighteenth annual Meeting of Ministers for Foreign Affairs
of the Group of 77, held in New York on 30 September 1994, in
which the Ministers called upon the United Nations to consider
convening an international conference on South-South cooperation
in 1996,
Reaffirming its resolution 33/134 of 19 December 1978,
in which it endorsed the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting
and Implementing Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries,
1/ as well as its resolution 48/172 of 21 December 1993 on economic
and technical cooperation among developing countries,
Recalling its resolutions 47/181 of 22 December 1992 and
48/166 of 21 December 1993 on an agenda for development, as well
as its resolution 48/165 of 21 December 1993 on the renewal of
the dialogue on strengthening international economic cooperation
for development through partnership,
Recalling also its resolution 46/205 of 20 December 1991
on the convening of an international conference on the financing
of development, as well as its resolution 47/152 of 18 December
1992 on international cooperation for economic growth and development,
Recalling further its resolution 46/155 of 19 December
1991 on the report entitled The Challenge to the South: The Report
of the South Commission New York, Oxford University Press, 1990.
For an overview and summary of the report of the South Commission,
see A/45/810 and Corr.1, annex. and resolution 48/164 of 21 December
1993 on the follow-up to that report,
Taking note of the Tokyo Declaration adopted at the International
Conference on African Development held at Tokyo in 1993, which
emphasizes the importance of strengthening cooperative links among
developing countries for sharing their experience and know-how,
and welcoming the convening of an Asia- Africa Forum in Indonesia
from 12 to 16 December 1994,
Reaffirming the importance of strengthening international
cooperation, especially that between developed and developing
countries, as well as other international directions of such cooperation,
Conscious of the need for enhanced collaboration between
developing countries themselves in the fields of economic, technical
and South-South cooperation,
Conscious that increased international support to activities
in economic and technical cooperation among developing countries
will contribute significantly to the strengthening of international
cooperation for a global partnership between all countries, particularly
between developing and developed countries,
Welcoming the increased role undertaken by the United Nations
system to support activities in economic and technical cooperation
among developing countries, and stressing the importance of continuing
to strengthen the capacity of the United Nations to foster international
cooperation in order to address fully the wide range of issues
pertaining to development and the growth of developing countries,
Noting the ongoing work of the Secretary-General in the
preparation of a report, pursuant to resolution 48/164, on the
state of South-South cooperation,
1. Requests the Secretary-General, pursuant to the provisions
of resolution 48/164, to submit to the General Assembly at its
fiftieth session a comprehensive report containing an overview
and analysis of South-South cooperation world wide, to be entitled
"State of South-South cooperation" and also containing
recommendations to strengthen such cooperation, keeping in view
the proposal to convene a United Nations conference on South-South
cooperation;
2. Requests the High-level Committee on Technical Cooperation
among Developing Countries, at its ninth session from 30 May to
3 June 1995, to include in its agenda an item entitled "New
directions for technical cooperation among developing countries";
3. Decides to convene, in consultation with Member States,
an intergovernmental meeting of experts in New York in 1995, within
existing resources or utilizing extrabudgetary resources, to recommend,
taking into account the outcomes of the meetings of the United
Nations Conference on Trade and Development Standing Committee
on Economic Cooperation among Developing Countries and the High-level
Committee on Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries
and with a view to expanding South-South cooperation on a global
scale, practical modalities and substantive issues to be taken
into account by the Secretary-General in undertaking the above-mentioned
report.
92nd plenary meeting
19 December 1994