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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/178
11 February 1997
Fifty-first session
Agenda item 96 (f)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/51/604/Add.6)]
51/178.
First United Nations Decade for the
Eradication of Poverty
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 48/183 of 21 December 1993, 49/110 of 19
December 1994 and 50/107 of 20 December 1995 related to the observance of the
International Year for the Eradication of Poverty and proclamation of the
first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty, and all other
relevant resolutions relating to international cooperation for the eradication
of poverty in developing countries,
Recognizing that the international community, at the highest political
level, has already reached a consensus on and committed itself to the
eradication of poverty through declarations and programmes of action of the
major United Nations conferences and summits organized since 1990,
particularly the World Summit for Social Development and the Fourth World
Conference on Women,
Expressing serious concern that more than 1.3 billion people in the
world, a majority of whom are women, live in absolute poverty, especially in
developing countries, and that the number of such people continues to
increase,
Welcoming the formulation of direct programmes of poverty eradication by
some developing countries at the national level,
Having considered the reports of the Secretary-General on the observance
of the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty and proclamation of
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