A/RES/61/187. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2006

• Resolution Number: A/RES/61/187
• Session: 61st
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/61/187

General Assembly Distr.: General

25 January 2007

Sixty-first session

Agenda item 51 (b)

06-50565

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2006

[on the report of the Second Committee (A/61/420/Add.2)]

61/187. International financial system and development

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolutions 55/186 of 20 December 2000 and 56/181 of

21 December 2001, both entitled “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”, as well as its resolutions 57/241 of 20 December 2002, 58/202 of

23 December 2003, 59/222 of 22 December 2004 and 60/186 of 22 December 2005,

Recalling also

the United Nations Millennium Declaration

1

and its resolution

56/210 B of 9 July 2002, in which it endorsed the Monterrey Consensus of the

International Conference on Financing for Development,

2

and the Plan of

Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg

Plan of Implementation”),

3

Recalling further

the 2005 World Summit Outcome,

4

Recalling

its resolution 60/265 of 30 June 2006 on the follow-up to the

development outcome of the 2005 World Summit, including the Millennium

Development Goals and the other internationally agreed development goals,

Emphasizing

that the international financial system should further sustain

economic growth and support sustainable development and hunger and poverty

eradication, while allowing for the coherent mobilization of all sources of financing

for development, including the mobilization of domestic resources, international

investment flows, official development assistance, external debt relief and an open,

equitable, rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory global trading system,

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1 See resolution 55/2.

2 Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18-22 March

2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.

3Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa,

26 August-4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I,

resolution 2, annex.

4 See resolution 60/1.