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12. Calls upon Member States and the international community to abide by
the resolve of the Millennium Assembly to make the United Nations more effective
in maintaining peace and security by giving it the resources and tools it needs for
conflict prevention; 5
13. Calls for strengthening the capacity of the United Nations in order to
carry out more effectively its responsibilities for the prevention of armed conflict,
including relevant peace-building and development activities, and requests the
Secretary-General to submit a detailed review of the capacity of the United Nations
system in the context of the report on the implementation of the present resolution;
14. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a comprehensive report on the
implementation of the present resolution, taking into account, inter alia, the views
expressed by Member States and the organs, agencies, funds and programmes of the
United Nations system in accordance with resolution 55/281, for consideration no
later than at its fifty-ninth session;
15. Decides to adopt the conclusions and recommendations, based on its
consideration of the report of the Secretary-General, as contained in the annex to the
present resolution;
16. Decides also to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-ninth
session a specific item entitled “Prevention of armed conflict”.
93rd plenary meeting
3 July 2003
Annex
General Assembly conclusions and recommendations on the
prevention of armed conflict
The General Assembly
Role of Member States
1.
Calls upon Member States to achieve the goals embodied in the United
Nations Millennium Declaration, 6 including the internationally agreed development
goals, as well as the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and
summits;
2.
Calls in this regard upon Member States and the international community
at large to support poverty eradication measures and the development strategies of
developing countries;
3.
Urges developed countries that have not done so to make concrete efforts
towards the target of providing 0.7 per cent of their gross national product as official
development assistance to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of their
gross national product as official development assistance to least developed
countries, as reconfirmed at the Third United Nations Conference on the Least
Developed Countries, 7 and encourages developing countries to build on progress
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5
See resolution 55/2, para. 9.
See resolution 55/2.
7
See A/CONF.191/11.
6
4