Stresses that the UN Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006) should contribute to achieving the targets of halving, by 2015, the proportion of the world's people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger; urges the strengthening of international assistance to developing countries in their efforts to alleviate poverty; reaffirms that all Governments and the UN system should promote an active and visible policy of mainstreaming a gender perspective in all policies and programmes aimed at the eradication of poverty; stresses the important role played by official development assistance in complementing domestic efforts to meet the development needs of developing countries; calls for the full, speedy and effective implementation of the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, and in this regard stresses the need for the donor community to provide the additional resources necessary to fulfil the future financial requirements of the Initiative; stresses that the goal of halving extreme poverty by 2015 will not be achieved without serious efforts to address the development needs of the least developed countries and to support their efforts in improving the lives of their people; reaffirms the role of UN funds and programmes, in particular the UNDP, in assisting the national efforts of developing countries in the eradication of poverty, and the need for their funding in accordance with relevant UN resolutions; requests the Secretary-General, with a view to establishing the fund, to submit to the General Assembly at its 57th session a report containing his recommendations on mechanisms, modalities, terms of reference, mandates and governance for the operationalization of the fund.

Adopted without vote, 90th plenary meeting

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