United Nations
A/RES/59/245
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 March 2005
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 88 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2004
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/59/486/Add.2)]
59/245. Specific actions related to the particular needs and
problems of landlocked developing countries: outcome of
the International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked
and Transit Developing Countries and Donor Countries
and International Financial and Development Institutions
on Transit Transport Cooperation
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 56/180 of 21 December 2001, 57/242 of 20 December
2002 and 58/201 of 23 December 2003,
Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 1 in which Heads of
State and Government recognized the particular needs and problems of landlocked
developing countries and urged both bilateral and multilateral donors to increase
financial and technical assistance to this group of countries to meet their particular
development needs and to help them to overcome the impediments of geography by
improving their transit transport systems, and resolved to create an environment, at
the national and global levels alike, that is conducive to development and to the
elimination of poverty,
Recognizing that the lack of territorial access to the sea, aggravated by
remoteness from world markets, and prohibitive transit costs and risks impose
serious constraints on export earnings, private capital inflow and domestic resource
mobilization of landlocked developing countries and therefore adversely affect their
overall growth and socio-economic development,
Recognizing also that landlocked developing countries, with their small and
vulnerable economies, are among the poorest of developing countries, and noting
that, of the thirty-one landlocked developing countries, sixteen are also classified by
the United Nations as least developed countries,
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See resolution 55/2.