Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2005  [on the report of the First Committee (A/60/463)]  60/61.  Relationship between disarmament and development        The General Assembly,    Recalling that the Charter of the United Nations envisages the establishment  and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for  armaments of the world’s human and economic resources,    Recalling also the provisions of the Final Document of the Tenth Special  Session of the General Assembly concerning the relationship between disarmament  and development, 1 as well as the adoption on 11 September 1987 of the Final  Document of the International Conference on the Relationship between  Disarmament and Development,2    Recalling further its resolutions 49/75 J of 15 December 1994, 50/70 G of  12 December 1995, 51/45 D of 10 December 1996, 52/38 D of 9 December 1997,  53/77 K of 4 December 1998, 54/54 T of 1 December 1999, 55/33 L of  20 November 2000, 56/24 E of 29 November 2001, 57/65 of 22 November 2002 and  59/78 of 3 December 2004, and its decision 58/520 of 8 December 2003,     Bearing in mind the Final Document of the Twelfth Conference of Heads of  State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Durban, South Africa, from  29 August to 3 September 1998, 3  and the Final Document of the Thirteenth  Ministerial Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, held in  Cartagena, Colombia, on 8 and 9 April 2000,4     Mindful of the changes in international relations that have taken place since  the adoption on 11 September 1987 of the Final Document of the International  Conference on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development, including  the development agenda that has emerged over the past decade,    Bearing in mind the new challenges for the international community in the  field of development, poverty eradication and the elimination of the diseases that  afflict humanity,  _______________  1 See resolution S-10/2.  2 United Nations publication, Sales No. E.87.IX.8.  3 A/53/667-S/1998/1071, annex I.  4 A/54/917-S/2000/580, annex.   A/RES/60/61  2    Stressing the importance of the symbiotic relationship between disarmament  and development and the important role of security in this connection, and  concerned at increasing global military expenditure, which could otherwise be spent  on development needs,    1.  Welcomes the report of the Group of Governmental Experts on the  relationship between disarmament and development 5 and its reappraisal of this  significant issue in the current international context;    2.  Stresses the central role of the United Nations in the disarmament- development relationship, and requests the Secretary-General to strengthen further  the role of the Organization in this field, in particular the high-level Steering Group  on Disarmament and Development, in order to assure continued and effective  coordination and close cooperation between the relevant United Nations  departments, agencies and sub-agencies;    3.  Requests the Secretary-General to continue to take action, through  appropriate organs and within available resources, for the implementation of the  action programme adopted at the 1987 International Conference on the Relationship  between Disarmament and Development;2    4.  Urges the international community to devote part of the resources made  available by the implementation of disarmament and arms limitation agreements to  economic and social development, with a view to reducing the ever-widening gap  between developed and developing countries;    5.  Encourages the international community to achieve the Millennium  Development Goals and to make reference to the contribution that disarmament  could provide in meeting them when it reviews its progress towards this purpose in  2006, as well as to make greater efforts to integrate disarmament, humanitarian and  development activities;    6.  Encourages the relevant regional and subregional organizations and  institutions, non-governmental organizations and research institutes to incorporate  issues related to the relationship between disarmament and development in their  agendas and, in this regard, to take into account the report of the Group of  Governmental Experts;    7.  Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its  sixty-first session on the implementation of the present resolution;    8.  Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-first session the  item entitled “Relationship between disarmament and development”.    61st plenary meeting  8 December 2005  _______________  5 See A/59/119.