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(g) Building a people-centred and inclusive information society so as to
enhance digital opportunities for all people in order to help bridge the digital divide,
putting the potential of information and communication technologies at the service
of development and addressing new challenges of the information society by
implementing the outcomes of the Geneva phase of the World Summit on the
Information Society and ensuring the success of the second phase of the Summit, to
be held in Tunis in November 2005; in this regard, we welcome the establishment of
the Digital Solidarity Fund and encourage voluntary contributions to its financing.
Migration and development
61. We acknowledge the important nexus between international migration and
development and the need to deal with the challenges and opportunities that
migration presents to countries of origin, destination and transit. We recognize that
international migration brings benefits as well as challenges to the global
community. We look forward to the high-level dialogue of the General Assembly on
international migration and development to be held in 2006, which will offer an
opportunity to discuss the multidimensional aspects of international migration and
development in order to identify appropriate ways and means to maximize their
development benefits and minimize their negative impacts.
62. We reaffirm our resolve to take measures to ensure respect for and protection
of the human rights of migrants, migrant workers and members of their families.
63. We reaffirm the need to adopt policies and undertake measures to reduce the
cost of transferring migrant remittances to developing countries and welcome efforts
by Governments and stakeholders in this regard.
Countries with special needs
64. We reaffirm our commitment to address the special needs of the least
developed countries and urge all countries and all relevant organizations of the
United Nations system, including the Bretton Woods institutions, to make concerted
efforts and adopt speedy measures for meeting in a timely manner the goals and
targets of the Brussels Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for
the Decade 2001–2010.4
65. We recognize the special needs of and challenges faced by landlocked
developing countries and therefore reaffirm our commitment to urgently address
those needs and challenges through the full, timely and effective implementation of
the Almaty Programme of Action: Addressing the Special Needs of Landlocked
Developing Countries within a New Global Framework for Transit Transport
Cooperation for Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries 23 and the São Paulo
Consensus adopted at the eleventh session of the United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development. 24 We encourage the work undertaken by United Nations
regional commissions and organizations towards establishing a time-cost
methodology for indicators to measure the progress in implementation of the Almaty
Programme of Action. We also recognize the special difficulties and concerns of
landlocked developing countries in their efforts to integrate their economies into the
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Report of the International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and
Donor Countries and International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit Transport
Cooperation, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 28 and 29 August 2003 (A/CONF.202/3), annex I.
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TD/412, part II.
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