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optimize research efforts, facilitate cost-sharing and achieve mutual gains, and
requests the United Nations system to assist in this regard;
14. Calls upon the relevant entities of the United Nations system to give
priority to the objectives of human resources development through, inter alia,
integrating into their development programmes explicit support for building science
and technology capacities compatible with local needs, resources, culture and
practices;
15. Urges the international community and the United Nations system,
including through public-private partnerships, to continue to support the efforts of
developing countries in formulating human resources development strategies that
promote technological capability;
16. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixty-fourth session a report on the implementation of human resources
development strategies, in particular on lessons learned and the role of the
international community and other entities, including the private sector, in assisting
these efforts;
17. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-fourth session,
under the item entitled “Eradication of poverty and other development issues”, the
sub-item entitled “Human resources development”.
78th plenary meeting
19 December 2007
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