Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development
and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly
A/RES/73/141
26. Stresses that the international community shall enhance its efforts to create
an enabling environment for social development and poverty eradication through
increasing market access for developing countries, technology transfer on mutually
agreed terms, financial aid and a comprehensive solution to the external debt problem;
27. Reaffirms that each country has the primary responsibility for its own
economic and social development and that the role of national policies and
development strategies cannot be overemphasized, and underlines the importance of
adopting effective measures, including new financial mechanisms, as appropriate, to
support the efforts of developing countries to achieve sustained economic growth,
sustainable development, poverty eradication and the strengthening of their
democratic systems;
28. Stresses that the international community should support national
commitments to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions with the goal to
ensure that no one is left behind, and recognizes the need for greater international
cooperation to further reduce inequality between and within countries and increase
capacity-building support to countries with the most constrained resources to ensure
that social expenditures meet certain targets;
29. Reconfirms the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, and recognizes the need to
take steps to significantly increase investment to close resource gaps, including
through the mobilization of financial resources from all sources, including public,
private, domestic and international resource mobilization and alloca tion;
30. Reaffirms that the Commission for Social Development, as a functional
commission of the Economic and Social Council, in promoting the integrated
treatment of social development issues in the United Nations system, shall review, on
a periodic basis, issues related to the follow-up to and implementation of the
Copenhagen Declaration and the Programme of Action, in a manner consistent with
the functions and contributions of the relevant organs, organizations and bodies of the
United Nations system, and shall advise the Council thereon;
31. Also reaffirms that the Commission for Social Development continues to
have the primary responsibility for 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, 2 and that it serves as the main United Nations forum for an
intensified global dialogue on social development issues, and calls upon Member
States, the relevant specialized agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations
system and civil society to enhance their support for its work;
32. Further reaffirms the mandate of the Commission for Social Development
and that social development is a cross-cutting element in discussions surrounding the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and calls upon Member States, the
relevant specialized agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system,
civil society and relevant stakeholders to enhance their support for the high -level
political forum on sustainable development as it builds upon the work of the
functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council, including the
Commission, while reflecting the integrated nature of the Sustainable Development
Goals as well as the interlinkages between them;
33. Reaffirms the commitments made in respect of meeting the special needs
of Africa at the 2005 World Summit, 21 underlines the call of the Economic and Social
Council for enhanced coordination within the United Nations system and the ongoing
efforts to harmonize the current initiatives on Africa, in line with the African Union ’s
Agenda 2063, and requests the Commission for Social Development to continue to
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