A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/52/185 4 February 1998 Fifty-second session Agenda item 95 (d) RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Second Committee (A/52/626/Add.4)] 52/185. Enhancing international cooperation towards a durable solution to the external debt problem of developing countries The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 48/165 of 21 December 1993 and 50/92 of 20 December 1995, the relevant provisions of the report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the General Assembly for the Mid-term Review of the Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s,1 and the Agenda for Development,2 as well as the results, as agreed, of all major United Nations conferences and summit meetings held since the beginning of the 1990s, Recalling also its resolution 51/164 of 16 December 1996 on enhancing international cooperation towards a durable solution to the external debt problem of developing countries, Reaffirming the urgent need for effective, equitable, development-oriented and durable solutions to the external debt and debt-servicing problems of developing countries and to help them to exit from the rescheduling process, Noting that developing countries have undertaken stabilization and structural adjustment programmes that benefit those countries but also involve social costs, Emphasizing the importance for debtor countries of continuing to pursue and intensify their efforts with respect to economic reform and stabilization and structural adjustment programmes to raise domestic savings and investments, take full advantage of market access opportunities where available, reduce inflation and improve economic efficiency, taking into account the need to address the social aspects of development, including the eradication of poverty as well as the vulnerability of the poorer strata of their populations, 1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 48 (A/51/48). 2 Resolution 51/240, annex. 98-76567 /...