Background
The Report of the United Nations Secretary-General on the State of South-South Cooperation is presented annually to the 2nd Committee of the General Assembly.
Summary
The present report is submitted in response to General Assembly resolution 78/167, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to submit to its seventy-ninth session a comprehensive report on the state of South-South cooperation, including the implementation of the recommendations contained in the outcome document of the second High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation. It highlights key collective actions undertaken by developing countries to recover from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic while building resilience to future shocks. In addition, the report contains an analysis of the support that many United Nations organizations provided to Member States of the Global South in 2023 through policies and programmes that continued to mainstream South-South and triangular cooperation at all levels, as encouraged by the Conference participants in the Buenos Aires outcome document. The report concludes with a set of recommendations on how South-South and triangular cooperation could accelerate urgently needed transitions to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.




