Urges all Member States and the organizations and bodies of the UN system, and invites the international financial institutions and other multilateral organizations, to extend to the Office of the High Representative their full support for the fulfilment of its mandate, including through staffing support; stresses the need for the effective implementation of the Programme of Action and its annual assessment at the substantive session of the Economic and Social Council; invites the organizations and bodies of the UN system, including the Bretton Woods institutions, and all other international organizations to support the implementation of the Programme of Action, including programmes of financial and technical cooperation devoted to least developed countries in support of their national development programmes, including their poverty reduction strategies; also invites the members of the World Trade Organization to facilitate and accelerate accession to the organization for those least developed countries that are candidates by expeditiously implementing the guidelines to facilitate and accelerate the accession of the least developed countries to the World Trade Organization, which were adopted by the General Council of the World Trade Organization on 10 Dec. 2002.

Adopted without vote, 44th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 2003, New York, 15, 28, 30 and 31 Jan. 2003; resumed organizational session for 2003, New York, 5 and 25 March, 29 April, 1 and 27 May and 24 June 2002; substantive session of 2003, Geneva, 30 June-25 July 2003; resumed substantive session of 2003, New York, 22 Aug., 31 Oct. and 19 Dec. 2003 - E/2003/99 - p. 40-41 - (ESCOR, 2003, Suppl. no. 1).