In September 2006 the General Assembly of the United Nations will conduct a high-level dialogue on international migration and development, the first major event in United Nations history focusing exclusively on international migration issues. Since 1990, the United Nations has convened a series of international conferences and summits where Governments have made a number of commitments and adopted a series of outcome documents calling for action in a number of domains with the objective of improving the well-being of the world's population and attaining sustained and sustainable development. Taken as a whole, the outcomes of the various conferences and summits constitute the United Nations Development Agenda. This report has two objectives. The first is to provide the elements of the United Nations framework on international migration by extracting from the outcome documents of the various conferences and summits those parts that relate to international migration. Hence, this report presents a compilation of all the relevant principles, guidelines, commitments and recommendations for action in the area of international migration that have been adopted so far by Member States of the United Nations. Such a set constitutes the solid foundation on which the high-level dialogue on international migration and development can build. The United Nations conferences and summits considered include: (a) the two world summits held since 2000; (b) all the intergovernmental conferences on population held since 1974, and (c) other major United Nations conferences and summits held since 1990 that contain recommendations relative to international migration. The second objective of this report is to compare the recommendations made by the Global Commission on International Migration (GCIM) with recommendations or commitments that Member States of the United Nations have already adopted by consensus in the various United Nations conferences and summits.