United Nations A/RES/57/242 General Assembly Distr.: General 7 February 2003 Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 84 (f) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Second Committee (A/57/529/Add.6)] 57/242. Preparations for the International Ministerial Conference on Transit Transport Cooperation The General Assembly, Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 1 in which heads of State and Government recognized the particular needs and problems of landlocked developing countries, urged both bilateral and multilateral donors to increase financial and technical assistance to that group of countries in order 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 level alike, conducive to development and to the elimination of poverty, Recalling also its resolution 56/180 of 21 December 2001, in which it requested the Secretary-General, within the existing resources of the programme budget for the biennium 2002–2003 and voluntary contributions, to convene in 2003 an international ministerial meeting of landlocked and transit developing countries and donor countries and international financial and development institutions on transit transport cooperation, Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General entitled “Specific actions related to the particular needs and problems of landlocked developing countries: preparatory process for the International Ministerial Meeting on Transit Transport Cooperation”, 2 1. Welcomes and accepts the generous offer of the Government of Kazakhstan to host the international meeting referred to in resolution 56/180, which is henceforth to be known as the International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and Donor Countries and International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit Transport Cooperation; 2. Decides that the International Ministerial Conference should be convened at Almaty on 28 and 29 August 2003; _______________ 1 2 02 55540 See resolution 55/2. A/57/340.