United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/60/217
Distr.: General
29 March 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 73 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2005
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/60/496 and Corr.1 and 2)]
60/217. Economic assistance for the reconstruction and
development of Djibouti
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 58/116 of 17 December 2003 and its previous resolutions
on economic assistance to Djibouti,
Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 1
Recalling further the Brussels Declaration 2 and the Programme of Action for
the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010, 3 adopted by the Third
United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries on 20 May 2001, as
well as the mutual commitments undertaken on that occasion and the importance
attached to the follow-up to and implementation of the Programme of Action,
Aware that Djibouti is included in the list of the least developed countries and
that it is ranked 150th out of the 177 countries studied in the Human Development
Report 2005, 4
Noting that the economic and social development efforts of Djibouti are
constrained by the extreme local climate conditions, in particular severe droughts
and flash floods, and that the implementation of reconstruction and development
programmes requires the deployment of substantial resources which exceed the
limited capacity of the country,
Noting also that the situation in Djibouti has been made worse by the
disastrous drought situation prevailing in the Horn of Africa and by the absence of
natural resources, which continue to place serious constraints on the fragile
economic, budgetary, social and administrative infrastructure of the country,
Expressing its concern at the severe shortage of drinkable water and the severe
food crisis, as reflected in the report of the Secretary-General, 5
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1
See resolution 55/2.
A/CONF.191/13, chap. I.
3
Ibid., chap. II.
4
Available from http://hdr.undp.org.
5
A/60/302.
2
05-50062