Towards a Strengthened and Stable International Financial Architecture Responsive to the Priorities of Growth and Development, Especially in Developing Countries, and to the Promotion of Economic and Social Equity

A/RES/56/181View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 95b International financial system and development, published in 2002.

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6 subjects

Development Development Finance International Monetary System Macroeconomics Report Preparation Reverse Transfer of Resources

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5 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General entitled “International financial architecture and development, including net transfer of resources between developing and developed countries”;²

²A/56/173 and Add.1 and 2.

Takes note also of the deliberations of the Preparatory Committee for the International Conference on Financing for Development,³ which is to be held at Monterrey, Mexico, from 18 to 22 March 2002;

³See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 28 (A/55/28), part two; ibid., Supplement No. 28A (A/55/28/Add.1); ibid., Supplement No. 28B and corrigendum (A/55/28/Add.2 and Corr.1); and ibid., Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 28 and corrigendum (A/56/28 and Corr.1).

Stresses the importance of continued substantive consideration of the sub-item on the international financial system and development;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session a report on the international financial system and development, bearing in mind, inter alia, the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session, under the item entitled “Macroeconomic policy questions”, the sub-item entitled “International financial system and development”.

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