A/RES/59/221 Recognizing that countries must take appropriate and necessary security measures, but also underlining the importance of taking these measures in the manner that is least disruptive of normal trade and related practices, Taking note of the review undertaken by the Trade and Development Board at its fifty-first session 9 of developments and issues in the post-Doha work programme of particular concern to developing countries following the eleventh session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and its contribution to an understanding of the actions required to help developing countries integrate, in a beneficial and meaningful manner, into the multilateral trading system and the global economy and to achieve a balanced, development-oriented and successful conclusion of the Doha negotiations, Taking note also of the report of the Trade and Development Board 10 and the report of the Secretary-General, 11 1. Recognizes that a universal, rule-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system, as well as meaningful trade liberalization, can substantially stimulate development worldwide, benefiting countries at all stages of development, thereby promoting economic growth and sustainable development necessary to achieve the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration;1 2. Reaffirms the value of multilateralism to the global trading system, and in this regard welcomes the progress achieved in the Doha work programme,4 with the adoption by the General Council of the World Trade Organization of its decision of 1 August 20045 on frameworks for further negotiations, which re-energizes the Doha round of the multilateral trade negotiations and recommits the members of the World Trade Organization to fulfilling the development dimension of the Doha work programme; Welcomes the eleventh session of the United Nations Conference on 3. Trade and Development, held in São Paulo, Brazil, from 13 to 18 June 2004, and the adoption of The Spirit of São Paulo 12 and the São Paulo Consensus, 13 which, building upon the Plan of Action adopted at its tenth session, held in Bangkok from 12 to 19 February 2000, 14 reaffirm the continued commitment of the international community to supporting the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in fulfilling its mandate in consensus-building, research and policy analysis, and in technical assistance on trade and development; Welcomes also the commitment made at the Fourth Ministerial 4. Conference of the World Trade Organization, held in Doha from 9 to 14 November 2001, and in the decision of 1 August 2004 of the General Council of the World Trade Organization, to place development at the heart of the Doha work programme and to continue to make positive efforts to ensure that developing countries, especially the least developed among them, secure a share in the growth of world trade commensurate with the needs of their economic development; _______________ 9 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 15 (A/59/15), part five, chap. II.C. 10 Ibid., Supplement No. 15. 11 A/59/305. 12 TD/412, part I. 13 Ibid., part II. 14 TD/386. 3