Governance Structure   High Level Committee   Regional Services           South-South Cooperation: The Making of a History 1964 The Special Unit for South-South Cooperation stems from the 1955 Bandung Conference of Non-Aligned Nations held in India that was subsequently re-named the Group of 77. In 1964, the idea of economic cooperation among developing countries resulted in the establishment of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). 1972 During the early 70s, United Nations agencies started to realize that countries of the global South share similar ecosystems and social conditions. This brought forward the idea that these countries might better be able to find common solutions to a variety of problems rather than strictly adhere to Northern models. With this in mind, the Special Unit for Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries (TCDC) was created in 1972 to serve as the General Assembly's Working Group as it reports to both the United Nations General Assembly, the Executive Board of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Population Fund. 1978 A conference on technical cooperation among the global South was held in Buenos Aires in 1978, resulting in the adoption of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action (BAPA). It identified 15 focal areas for TCDC and stipulated that it pay special attention to the least developed, the landlocked, and small island developing states. 1980 In 1980, the members of this Group became established as a High-Level Committee of the Assembly that meets biennially to monitor the implementation of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action. 2004 TCDC has a new name: The Special Unit for South-South Cooperation (SU/SSC). The new name reflects a new shift of focus: from technical cooperation to include economical cooperation. The decision to change the name was adopted by the High-level Committee at its thirteenth session in May 2003 (decision 13/2) and endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 58/220 on 19 February 2004. 2005 Over the last decade, a silent revolution has taken place among such fast-track performers as Brazil, China, India, Malaysia, the Republic of Korea, South Africa and Thailand. The 2005 G-8 meeting at Gleneagles, Scotland underscored this new geography of trade, investment and intellectual relations. Flanking the G-8 heads of government stood the leaders of Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa: a tacit acknowledgement that even with increased Northern commitments of official development assistance (ODA) and enhanced debt cancellation, the MDGs cannot be met without burgeoning South-South interactions and assistance.