Date: 22 – 25 May 2012

Location: United Nations North Lawn Building, Room 4, New York, NY

The High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation, a subcommittee of the General Assembly convened by the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on behalf of the Secretary-General, meets biennially to undertake an overall intergovernmental review of South-South cooperation within the United Nations development system.

“Promoting socio-economic transformation through infrastructure development, employment creation, social cohesion and transfer of technologies using South-South cooperation” will be the topic for discussion during the thematic segment of the 17^th session of the High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation.

PRE-SESSION MATERIALS

• Provisional agenda and annotations for the organizational meeting to be held in New York on 3 May 2012 (SSC/17/L.1)
  

Arabic • Chinese • English • French • Russian • Spanish

• Provisional annotated agenda and list of documents for the seventeenth session (SSC/17/L.2)
  

Arabic • Chinese • English • French • Russian • Spanish

• Note by the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme on the adoption of the agenda and organization of work (SSC/17/L.3)
  

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IN-SESSION DOCUMENTS

• Review of progress made in implementing the Buenos Aires Plan of Action, the new directions strategy for South-South cooperation and the Nairobi outcome document of the High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation (SSC/17/1)

                   Arabic • Chinese • English • French • Russian • Spanish

• Consideration of reports of the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (SSC/17/2)

                   Arabic • Chinese • English • French • Russian • Spanish

• Framework of operational guidelines on United Nations support to South-South and triangular cooperation, Note by the Secrerary-General (SSC/17/3)

                   Arabic • Chinese • English • French• Russian • Spanish

IN-SESSION REFERENCE MATERIALS         

• Comments of the Secretary-General and the United Nations System Chief Executives Board (CEB) for Coordination on the report of the Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) 
  

• JIU Report on South-South and Triangular Cooperation in the UN System 
  

BACKGROUND MATERIAL ON SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION

• State of South-South Cooperation, Report of the Secretary-General

• Nairobi Outcome Document

• Busan Outcome Document

• Status and Mandate of the Special Unit for South-South Cooperation

• High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation - Introduction

• High-level Committee Decisions and GA Resolutions Relevant to SSC

• UNDP Executive Board Decisions Relevant to SSC

• G77 Decisions and Declarations Relevant to SSC

• Excerpts from the 2010 Seoul G20 Summit Document Relevant to SSC

• Excerpts from the Busan Outcome Document Relevant to SSC

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