Notes with satisfaction the implementation of the "Strategic Plan, 2000" and requests the UN University to continue to attach importance to the priority agendas of the UN system; highly appreciates the successful steps taken by the University to promote the work and visibility of the University, including its research and training centres and programmes, to strengthen interaction with and contributions to the work of the UN system and to create new networks of activity with the academic communities in host countries, including Japan, and encourages the University to continue with such efforts; requests the Secretary-General to encourage other bodies of the UN system to utilize more fully the capacity of the University for mobilizing a worldwide network of applied policy researchers to assist the UN, through research and capacity development, in resolving pressing global problems; decides to include this item on the agenda of its 60th session.

Adopted without vote, 75th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 59th sess., Suppl. no. 49.