Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly A/RES/68/135 Recalling also its resolution 57/270 B of 23 June 2003 on the integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic and social fields, Recalling further its resolution 63/303 of 9 July 2009 entitled “Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development”, Welcoming the decision that the Commission for Social Development should consider “Promoting empowerment of people in achieving poverty eradication, social integration and full employment and decent work for all” as the priority theme for the 2013–2014 review and policy cycle, 7 Recalling the ministerial declaration adopted at the high-level segment of the substantive session of 2012 of the Economic and Social Council, entitled “Promoting productive capacity, employment and decent work to eradicate poverty in the context of inclusive, sustainable and equitable economic growth at all levels for achieving the Millennium Development Goals”, 8 Noting that the decent work agenda of the International Labour Organization, with its four strategic objectives, has an important role to play in achieving the objective of full and productive employment and decent work for all, including its objective of social protection, as reaffirmed in the International Labour Organization Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization, 9 in which the particular role of the Organization in promoting fair globalization and its responsibility to assist its members in their efforts were acknowledged, as well as in the Global Jobs Pact, Emphasizing the need to enhance the role of the Commission for Social Development in the follow-up to and review of the World Summit for Social Development and the outcome of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly, and welcoming the views of the Commission in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda, Recognizing that the three core themes of social development, namely, poverty eradication, full and productive employment and decent work for all and social integration, are interrelated and mutually reinforcing, and that an enabling environment therefore needs to be created so that all three objectives can be pursued simultaneously, Recognizing also that a people-centred approach must be at the centre of economic and social development, Expressing deep concern that attainment of the social development objectives is being hindered by the ongoing adverse impact of the world financial and economic crisis, volatile energy and food prices and the challenges posed by climate change, Recognizing the complex character of the ongoing food insecurity situation, including food price volatility, as a combination of several major factors, both structural and conjunctural, which is also negatively affected by, inter alia, _______________ 7 See Economic and Social Council resolution 2012/7. See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/67/3/Rev.1), chap. IV, sect. F. 9 A/63/538-E/2009/4, annex. 8 2/12