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Responding to Global Threats and Challenges

A/RES/57/145No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 44Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit, published in 2003.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2003–2004
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/58/16
  • 2004A/RES/58/16Responding to global threats and challengesLatestCompare with previous version
  • 2003A/RES/57/145Responding to global threats and challenges

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

19 topics
ConsultationsCooperation Between OrganizationsCounter-TerrorismCrime PreventionDevelopmentDisarmamentDispute SettlementEnvironmental ProtectionHumanitarian AssistanceInformation ExchangeInternational SecurityOrganized CrimePeacekeeping OperationsPeacemakingPoverty MitigationRegional OrganizationsReport PreparationTerrorismTransnational Crime

What does this mandate say?

4 operative paragraphs
1
Acknowledges the importance of further adapting the United Nations to address the threats and challenges of the twenty-first century and the need to enhance the overall effectiveness and complementarity of the United Nations system in combating international terrorism and transnational organized crime, in promoting peace, security, disarmament, conflict prevention, peacekeeping, development and poverty eradication, in protecting the environment, in providing humanitarian response and in other fields, as well as the need to increase interaction between the United Nations and other international and regional organizations;
2
Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the executive heads of the agencies and organizations of the United Nations system, and taking into account the views of Member States and those of international and regional organizations cooperating with the United Nations, to study ways and means to promote further, with the United Nations lead, in the context of implementation of the Millennium Declaration1 in all its aspects, a more comprehensive and coherent response to the global threats and challenges of the twenty-first century;
3
Invites Member States and the relevant regional and other organizations to contribute their views on the issues referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 above to the Secretary-General;
4
Requests the Secretary-General to include his observations on the issues referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 above in his report on the follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit to be submitted to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session.

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