The resolution of the United Nations General Assembly (A/RES/59/57), tabled by the United Republic of Tanzania and the Republic of Finland, with support from 74 other co-sponsoring Member States, makes achieving a fully inclusive and equitable globalization a core issue on the international economic and social development agendas. It also gives new significance to the ILO contributions to the Millennium Declaration's aim of ensuring that globalization becomes a positive force for the people of the entire world.
Under the resolution, the wider challenges and opportunities linked to globalization will be part of the Millennium Declaration's comprehensive review in 2005. They will also be included in the ten-year review this year of the World Summit for Social Development, by the UN Commission on Social Development.
These are steps forward since the impacts of globalization were not yet fully visible during the Millennium Summit's preparatory phases.
In February 2004, the case for an inclusive and equitable globalization was forcefully argued in a report of the WCSDG set up by the ILO. The report, entitled A Fair Globalization: Creating Opportunities for All,, proposed key paths and solutions to make globalization more beneficial for people everywhere.
The resolution asks UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to take the World Commission's report into account in his comprehensive assessment of the implementation of Millennium Summit decisions, prepared for the high-level review at next year's UNGA. It calls on relevant UN agencies and other multilateral institutions to provide information to the Secretary-General on their activities to promote an inclusive and equitable globalization. Thus, the resolution takes the first steps towards bringing all concerned international bodies into a more coherent, better-coordinated and less-fragmented multilateral framework for managing globalization.