International migration and development

Urges both the Statistics Division and the Population Division of the UN Secretariat, along with the regional commissions, other relevant UN and intergovernmental organizations, and Governments providing technical assistance in statistics, to collaborate in the dissemination of the new set of recommendations on statistics of international migration and to provide, at the request of Governments, technical assistance in implementing these recommendations; calls upon the Working Group on Coordination Task Force on Basic Social Services for All to ensure that international migration remains a topic of concentration in its follow-up to the International Conference on Population and Development, inter alia, by compiling a comprehensive list of issues related to international migration and development and identifying the intergovernmental mechanisms available to address them, to be submitted to the Commission on Population and Development at its 31st session; calls upon all relevant organs, organizations and programmes of the UN system, and other intergovernmental, regional and subregional organizations to collaborate and coordinate their efforts, making full use of the expertise of existing organizations, in examining international migration and development; calls upon Governments and intergovernmental, regional and subregional organizations to promote and expand the exchange of information and experiences regarding international migration and development in appropriate bilateral, multilateral, regional and interregional forums.

Adopted without vote, 33rd plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 1997, New York, 23 Jan. and 4-7 Feb. 1997; resumed organizational session for 1997, New York, 1 and 2 May 1997; substantive session of 1997, Geneva, 30 June-25 July 1997; resumed substantive session of 1997, New York, 8 Oct. and 16 and 18 Dec. 1997 - E/1997/97 - p. 20 - (ESCOR, 1997, Suppl. no. 1).