Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development
and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly
A/RES/71/162
5.
Expresses deep concern that the adverse effects of the world financial
and economic crisis, volatile energy and food prices and food insecurity and the
challenges posed by climate change, as well as the lack of results so far in the
multilateral trade negotiations, have negative implications for social development;
6.
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 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;
7.
Also reaffirms that the Commission for Social Development will
contribute to the follow-up to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, within
its existing mandate, by supporting the thematic reviews of the high -level political
forum on sustainable development on progress in the implementation of the
Sustainable Development Goals, including cross-cutting issues, which should reflect
the integrated nature of the Goals as well as the interlinkages between them, while
engaging all relevant stakeholders and, where possible, feeding into a nd being
aligned with the cycle of the high-level political forum, according to the
organizational arrangements to be established by the General Assembly and the
Economic and Social Council;
8.
Emphasizes that the major United Nations conferences and summits,
including the Millennium Summit, the International Conference on Financing for
Development, in its Monterrey Consensus, 11 the 2005 World Summit on Social
Development, the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for
Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, in its
Doha Declaration on Financing for Development, 12 the high-level plenary meeting
of the General Assembly on the Millennium Develop ment Goals, the United Nations
Conference on Sustainable Development, the 2013 special event to follow up efforts
made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the third International
Conference on Financing for Development, in its Addis Ababa Action Agenda, 13 and
the United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda,
have reinforced the priority and urgency of poverty eradication within the United
Nations development agenda;
9.
Reaffirms the commitments made in respect of meeting the special needs
of Africa at the 2005 World Summit, 14 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 give due prominence in its work to the social
dimensions of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development; 7
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11
Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18-22 March
2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
12
Resolution 63/239, annex.
13
Resolution 69/313, annex.
14
Resolution 60/1, para. 68.
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