United Nations
A/RES/55/216
General Assembly
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 30
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/55/L.68 and Add.1)]
55/216. Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for
the Development of Africa in the 1990s
The General Assembly,
Having considered the progress report of the Secretary-General on the
implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa
in the 1990s, and its addendum on mobilization of additional resources for African
development, a study on overall resource flows to Africa, 1
Recalling its resolution 46/151 of 18 December 1991, the annex to which
contains the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the
1990s, its resolutions 48/214 of 23 December 1993 and 49/142 of 23 December
1994, 53/90 of 7 December 1998 on the implementation of the New Agenda, as well
as its resolution 51/32 of 6 December 1996 on the mid-term review of the
implementation of the New Agenda,
Bearing in mind the report of the Secretary-General on the causes of conflict
and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa
submitted to the Security Council and the General Assembly in 1998 2 and its
resolution 54/234 of 22 December 1999 on the causes of conflict and the promotion
of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa, as well as the
recommendations of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Working Group on the Causes of
Conflict and the Promotion of Durable Peace and Sustainable Development in
Africa, 3 established by the General Assembly to monitor the implementation of the
recommendations contained in the report of the Secretary-General,
Recalling that, while the primary responsibility for the development of Africa
remains with African countries, the international community has a stake in it and in
supporting the efforts of those countries in that regard,
Welcoming recent efforts and initiatives of the United Nations on Africa, in
particular, the meeting of the Security Council on human immunodeficiency
virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in Africa, held in January
1
A/55/350 and Add.1.
A/52/871-S/1998/318.
3
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 45 (A/55/45).
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