South-South Cooperation

A/RES/60/212View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 57b South-South cooperation : economic and technical cooperation among developing countries, published in 2006.

What other versions does this mandate have?

18 versions · 2006–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/156

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/156	South-South cooperation	4,341	64%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/236	South-South cooperation	3,502	71%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/167	South-South cooperation	2,946	53%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/185	South-South cooperation	1,790	68%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/221	South-South cooperation	1,329	68%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

17 reports · 2009–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/321	State of South-South cooperation report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/80/156
2025	A/80/256	State of South-South cooperation report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/236
2024	A/79/230	State of South-South cooperation report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/167
2023	A/78/290	State of South-South cooperation report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/185
2022	A/77/297	State of South-South cooperation report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/221

What’s in this document?

16 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the report of the High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation at its fourteenth session³ and the decisions taken at that session;⁴

³Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 39 (A/60/39).

⁴Ibid., chap. I.

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the state of South-South cooperation;⁵

⁵A/60/257.

Stresses that South-South cooperation, as an important element of international cooperation for development, offers viable opportunities for developing countries in their individual and collective pursuit of sustained economic growth and sustainable development;

Recognizes that developing countries have the primary responsibility for promoting and implementing South-South cooperation, not as a substitute for but rather as a complement to North-South cooperation, and in this context reiterates the need for the international community to support the efforts of the developing countries to expand South-South cooperation;

Encourages the international community, including the international financial institutions, to support the efforts of developing countries, inter alia, through triangular cooperation;

Recognizes that regional integration initiatives between developing countries constitute an important and valuable form of South-South cooperation and that regional integration is a step towards beneficial integration into the world economy;

Welcomes the initiatives and partnerships being undertaken at the subregional, regional, interregional and global levels towards establishing public-private partnership mechanisms aiming to enhance and expand South-South cooperation in trade and investment;

Takes note with appreciation of the launching of the third round of negotiations on the Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries as an important instrument to stimulate South-South cooperation;

Recognizes the considerable contribution of South-South cooperation arrangements, which promote development activities in developing countries;

Also recognizes the importance of initiatives and arrangements, including public-private mechanisms, in the undertaking of efforts to enhance cooperation between developing countries, including, inter alia, in the areas of information and communication technologies, science and technology, culture, health and education;

Welcomes the contributions made by developing countries in the context of South-South cooperation to countries and peoples stricken by natural disasters, including through the Voluntary Trust Fund for the Promotion of South-South Cooperation within the framework for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of countries affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster and through the South Fund for Development and Humanitarian Assistance;

Urges all relevant United Nations organizations and multilateral institutions to intensify their efforts to effectively mainstream the use of South-South cooperation in the design, formulation and implementation of their regular programmes and to consider increasing allocations of human, technical and financial resources for supporting South-South cooperation initiatives, and in this regard takes note of the initiatives contained in the Havana Programme of Action adopted by the first South Summit,⁶ the Marrakesh Framework for the Implementation of South-South Cooperation and the Doha Plan of Action;⁷

⁶A/55/74, annex II.

⁷A/60/111, annex II.

Recognizes the need to mobilize additional resources for enhancing South-South cooperation, reiterates in this context its decision, in its resolution 57/263 of 20 December 2002, to include the Voluntary Trust Fund for the Promotion of South-South Cooperation in the United Nations Pledging Conference for Development Activities, as long as it exists, recalls the decision to include the Pérez-Guerrero Trust Fund for Economic and Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries in the same Pledging Conference, and invites all countries, in particular developed countries, to support South-South and triangular cooperation through, inter alia, these funds, bearing in mind the need for these funds to continue to use such resources in an effective manner;

Invites the United Nations Development Programme to rename the Voluntary Trust Fund for the Promotion of South-South Cooperation, which was established in accordance with General Assembly resolution 50/119 of 20 December 1995, as the United Nations Fund for South-South Cooperation, while maintaining its mandate and voluntary nature, and to designate it as the main United Nations trust fund for promoting and supporting South-South and triangular initiatives;

Invites the High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation and the United Nations Development Programme Executive Board, as appropriate, to consider measures to strengthen further the Special Unit for South-South Cooperation within the United Nations Development Programme as a separate entity and a focal point for South-South cooperation in the United Nations system, so as to enable it to carry out its full responsibilities, in particular through the mobilization of resources for the advancement of South-South cooperation, including through triangular cooperation;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-second session a sub-item entitled “South-South cooperation for development”, and requests the Secretary-General to submit at that session a comprehensive report on the state of South-South cooperation and on the implementation of the present resolution.

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