| Date | 14 December 2000 |
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Agenda item 182
Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit
Draft resolution (A/55/L.56/Rev.1)
The President
The General Assembly will now proceed to consider draft resolution A/55/L.56/Rev.1.
I call on the representative of the Secretariat.
Mr. Jin Yongjian (Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs and Conference Services)
Before action is taken on draft resolution A/55/L.56/Rev.1, I should like to inform members that the draft resolution, inter alia, calls for an integrated, coordinated, comprehensive and balanced approach in the implementation of the Millennium Declaration. It calls upon all relevant organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to be involved in the follow-up to the Summit. It invites specialized agencies and related organizations of the United Nations system to strengthen and adjust their activities, programmes and medium-term strategies as appropriate to take into account the follow-up to the Summit. And it requests the appropriate bodies to consider urgently how the implementation of the Declaration should relate to the biennium budget process and medium-term plan.
Should the General Assembly adopt draft resolution A/55/L.56/Rev.1, the Secretary-General would ensure system-wide coordination to assist with the implementation of the Declaration and would identify, within the framework of the Administrative Committee on Coordination, innovative ways of enhancing cooperation and coherence throughout the United Nations system. In this context, he would request the appropriate bodies of the relevant United Nations system to consider how the implementation of the Declaration should relate to the biennium budget process and the medium-term plan.
The outcome of consultations with organizations within the United Nations system would be reported to the General Assembly in the context of the annual and the quinquennial reports called for in paragraphs 18 and 19 of draft resolution A/55/L.56/Rev.1, which would be prepared by the Office of the Secretary-General.
Should the General Assembly adopt draft resolution A/55/L.56/Rev.1, no additional resource requirements are currently anticipated to arise in the biennium 2000-2001. Should any additional requirements be later identified, these would be reported to the fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly in the context of its consideration of the agenda items related to the programme budget for the biennium 2000-2001 and for the biennium 2002-2003.
The President
The Assembly will now take a decision on draft resolution A/55/L.56/Rev.1.
May I take it that the Assembly decides to adopt draft resolution A/55/L.56/Rev.1?
The President
We have just adopted the draft resolution on the follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit. The consensus would not have been possible without the cooperation and support of all delegations. I believe that the membership has shown that the Millennium Summit has indeed created a momentum and new spirit of political will that will help us to achieve the goals set in the Declaration.
I should like to thank once again all delegations for their flexibility. I think that through this kind of consensus-building and teamwork we can achieve progress on many issues, and I look forward to continuing to work with delegations on the follow-up to the Summit.
The Assembly has thus concluded this stage of its consideration of agenda item 182.
