International trade and development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Reiterates the commitment made at the 4th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, held in Doha 9-14 Nov. 2001, to place development at the heart of the Doha work programme and to continue to make positive efforts to ensure that developing countries, especially the least developed among them, secure a share in the growth of world trade commensurate with the needs of their economic development; stresses the importance of an open, transparent, inclusive and democratic process and of procedures for the effective functioning of the multilateral trading system that allow for internal transparency and the effective participation of members, including in the decision-making process, and that enable them to have their vital interests duly reflected in the outcome of trade negotiations; requests the UN Conference on Trade and Development to continue its work, within its mandate, on trade-related issues and policies, from the development perspective, including its contribution to the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development ("Johannesburg Plan of Implementation"), and notes its work on development benchmarks of the international trading system and trade negotiations; requests the Secretary-General of the UN, in collaboration with the secretariat of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, to report to the General Assembly at its 59th session on the implementation of the present resolution and on developments in the multilateral trading system under the sub-item entitled "International trade and development".

Adopted without vote, 78th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 58th sess., Suppl. no. 49.