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General Assembly Session 51 meeting 103

Date20 June 1997
Started11:10
Ended12:50

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A-51-PV.103 1997-06-20 11:10 20 June 1997 [[20 June]] [[1997]] /
The President: Mr. Razali (Malaysia)
The meeting was called to order at 11.10 a.m.

Agenda item 96 (continued)

Sustainable development and international economic cooperation

(b) Agenda for development

Report of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group of the General Assembly on an Agenda for Development (A/51/45)
The President

The Assembly has before it a report of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group of the General Assembly on an Agenda for Development, document A/51/45, and a draft resolution which, for the time being, is contained in paragraph 7 of Part I of document A/AC.250/1.

Mr. Valle (Brazil)

Allow me to express my great satisfaction at the conclusion of the work that will lead to the adoption of the Agenda for Development by the General Assembly. We are very grateful to you, Ambassador Razali, and to the Co-Vice-Chairmen, Ambassadors Mangoaela and Powles, as well as to their predecessors, for leading us to a successful and timely outcome. We are convinced that all of us have made a contribution to the Agenda for Development. We are pleased to acknowledge the important role played by all delegations and by the Secretariat in the final stages of the negotiations.

For many years, Brazil has stressed the importance of reaffirming in a single document the role of the United Nations in development. Development is, and should remain, one of the main priorities of this Organization, which also has also an overall mandate on peace and security issues. Brazil has been deeply involved in the Agenda for Development since its beginning. We fully supported the Group of 77 initiative to establish the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group of the General Assembly on this matter. After three years of deliberations, we have finally concluded our work.

The Agenda for Development speaks for itself, but it is always worthwhile to highlight briefly what it represents. It integrates the consensus agreements resulting from major United Nations conferences on development and, for the first time, provides a definition of development. It reaffirms the role of the United Nations in development and provides a framework for reforms in the economic and social fields. In other words, it puts United Nations reforms in the context of the implementation of international commitments on development. Finally, it demonstrates that, whatever differences among countries may persist, there is still a firm commitment by the international community to the realization of development and to the revitalization of the United Nations system in that field.

Mr. Mabilangan (Philippines) --> -->
 
 
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