United Nations General Assembly A/RES/59/221 Distr.: General 11 February 2005 Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 83 (a) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2004 [on the report of the Second Committee (A/59/481/Add.1)] 59/221. International trade and development The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 56/178 of 21 December 2001, 57/235 of 20 December 2002 and 58/197 of 23 December 2003 on international trade and development, Recalling also the provisions of the United Nations Millennium Declaration 1 pertaining to trade and related development issues, as well as the outcomes of the International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Monterrey, Mexico, from 18 to 22 March 2002 2 and the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 26 August to 4 September 2002, 3 Noting the Ministerial Declaration and decisions adopted at the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, held in Doha from 9 to 14 November 2001, 4 and the full commitment of all members of the World Trade Organization to give effect to them, in accordance with the decision of 1 August 2004 of the General Council of the World Trade Organization, 5 Reaffirming the role of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development as focal point within the United Nations for the integrated treatment of trade and development and the interrelated issues in the areas of finance, technology, investment and sustainable development, Recalling its resolutions 57/250 of 20 December 2002 and 57/270 B of 23 June 2003, in which it invited the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, as well as the Trade and Development Board, to contribute, within its mandate, to the implementation and to the review of the progress made in the implementation of the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits and invited the _______________ 1 See resolution 55/2. 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. 3 Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August– 4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I, resolution 1, annex, and resolution 2, annex. 4 A/C.2/56/7, annex. 5 World Trade Organization, document WT/L/579. Available from http://docsonline.wto.org. 2 04-48952