South-South Cooperation

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 59cSouth-South cooperation for development, published in 2008.

What other versions does this mandate have?

18 versions · 2006–2025

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

2025A/RES/80/156South-South cooperationLatestCompare with previous version
2024A/RES/79/236South-South cooperationCompare with previous version
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Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2009.

2009A/64/504Promotion of South-South cooperation for development: a 30-year perspective report of the Secretary-General

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What does this mandate say?

15 operative paragraphs

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

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

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;

Also stresses that South-South cooperation is not a substitute for, but rather a complement to, North-South cooperation;

Highlights the fact that, in spite of progress achieved in this area, further efforts are required to better understand the approaches and potential of South-South cooperation to enhance development effectiveness, including through national capacity development;

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

Encourages the initiatives and arrangements, including public-private mechanisms, undertaken in the efforts to enhance cooperation between developing countries, including, inter alia, in the areas of the fight against poverty and hunger, access to information and communications technologies, science and technology, environment, culture, health, education and human development;

Invites the High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation and the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme and of the United Nations Population Fund, 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;

Recognizes the need to further assess the progress made by the United Nations development system in its support to South-South cooperation, particularly through the provision of resources for South-South cooperation, and mobilization of technical and financial resources for triangular cooperation, as well as to mainstream South-South cooperation in the work of the United Nations funds and programmes and the specialized agencies in the field;

Also recognizes the need to mobilize additional resources for enhancing South-South cooperation, and in this context invites the donor community, including Member States, to contribute generously to the United Nations Fund for South-South Cooperation and the Pérez-Guerrero Trust Fund for Economic and Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries, in accordance with its resolution 57/263 of 20 December 2002;

Reaffirms that existing regular resources will continue to fund the activities of the Special Unit for South-South Cooperation, and encourages the Special Unit to explore and undertake intensive, innovative and additional resource mobilization initiatives to attract more resources, both financial and in kind, to supplement regular resources and other funds for activities involving South-South cooperation;

Encourages all Member States to deepen, intensify and enhance South-South cooperation, including through triangular cooperation, in all its aspects, as a continuing and vital process undertaken to help meet the challenges facing the countries of the South, especially least developed countries, landlocked developing countries, small island developing States and countries in post-conflict and crisis situations;

Recognizes the need to strengthen and further invigorate South-South cooperation, in that regard decides to convene a High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and Implementing Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries,Error: Reference source not found no later than the first half of 2009, and requests that the President of the General Assembly entrust the President of the High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation with undertaking the necessary consultations with Member States in order to prepare for the proposed conference, with a view to the Assembly’s taking a decision, during its sixty-second session, on the nature, date, objectives and modalities of the conference, making use of the existing coordination mechanisms of the United Nations system;

Welcomes the generous offer of the Government of Argentina to host the High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation;

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

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