A/RES/57/240
(a) To implement speedily, effectively and fully the enhanced Heavily
Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, which should be fully financed through
additional resources, while stressing the need for fair, equitable and transparent
burden-sharing among the international public creditor community and other donor
countries, and take into consideration, as appropriate, measures to address any
fundamental changes in the economic circumstances of those developing countries
that have an unsustainable debt burden caused by natural catastrophes, severe termsof-trade shocks or conflict, taking into account initiatives that have been undertaken
to reduce outstanding indebtedness;
(b) To bring about a sustained commitment on the part of the heavily
indebted poor countries to improvements in domestic policies and economic
management, to support capacity-building for the management of financial assets
and liabilities, to ensure full participation and delivery of relief by all affected
creditors, to ensure adequate and sufficiently concessional financing by international
financing institutions and the donor community, and to consider an early review of
the difficult issues of HIPC-to-HIPC debt relief and creditor litigation;
(c) To bring international debtors and creditors together in relevant
international forums to restructure unsustainable debt in a timely and efficient
manner, taking into account the need to involve the private sector in the resolution
of crises due to indebtedness, where appropriate;
(d) To acknowledge the problems of the debt sustainability of some lowincome countries that are not heavily indebted, in particular those facing exceptional
circumstances;
(e) To reduce the unsustainable debt burden of developing countries through
such actions as debt relief and, as appropriate, debt cancellation and other
innovative mechanisms geared to comprehensively addressing the debt problems of
developing countries, in particular the poorest and most heavily indebted ones;
(f) To encourage exploring innovative mechanisms to comprehensively
address the debt problems of developing countries, including middle-income
countries, and countries with economies in transition; such mechanisms may include
debt-for-sustainable-development swaps, or multi-creditor debt swap arrangements,
as appropriate;
(g) To establish effective debt-tracking mechanisms in developing countries
and strengthen technical assistance for external debt management and debt tracking,
including through enhanced cooperation and coordination between organizations
providing assistance in this regard;
(h) To take steps to ensure that resources provided for debt relief do not
detract from official development assistance resources intended to be available for
developing countries and that the debt relief arrangements seek to avoid imposing
any unfair burden on other developing countries;
(i) To welcome consideration by all relevant stakeholders of an international
debt-work-out mechanism, in the appropriate forums, the adoption of which should
not preclude emergency financing in times of crisis, to promote fair burden-sharing
and minimize moral hazard, which will engage debtors and creditors to come
together to restructure unsustainable debts in a timely and efficient manner;
(j) To establish a set of clear principles for the management and resolution
of financial crises that provide for fair burden-sharing between the public and
private sectors and among debtors, creditors and investors, while recognizing that a
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