Emphasizes the link between financing for development and the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the UN Millennium Declaration; decides that the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat and other institutional stakeholders, shall prepare the necessary documentation for the high-level spring meetings of the Economic and Social Council on the work undertaken and planned in their respective areas of competence regarding implementation of the different components of the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development; encourages the regional commissions to continue to strengthen their efforts in addressing regional and interregional aspects of the follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development.

Adopted without vote, 52nd plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 2004, New York, 21 Jan., 4-6, 13 and 27 Feb. and 3 May 2004; resumed organizational session for 2004, New York, 4 May and 3 and 15 June 2004; substantive session of 2004, New York, 28 June-23 July 2004; resumed substantive session of 2004, New York, 16 Sept. and 5 and 11 Nov. 2004 - E/2004/99 - p. 102-103 - (ESCOR, 2004, Suppl. no. 1).