United Nations A/RES/55/202 General Assembly Distr.: General 8 February 2001 Fifty-fifth session Agenda item 95 (d) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Second Committee (A/55/582/Add.4)] 55/202. Further implementation of the outcome of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 49/122 of 19 December 1994 on the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, Recalling also its resolutions 51/183 of 16 December 1996, 52/202 of 18 December 1997, 53/189 of 15 December 1998 and 54/224 of 22 December 1999, Recognizing that small island developing States, given their size, limited resources, geographic dispersion and, in most cases, isolation from markets, face special challenges and unique vulnerabilities of an environmental and economic nature in their efforts to achieve sustainable development and the need to enhance their capacity to effectively benefit from the opportunities presented by trade liberalization and globalization, while minimizing their negative impact on small island developing States, Recalling the Declaration of Barbados 1 and the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States 2 of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, Recalling also the Declaration 3 and review document 3 adopted by the General Assembly at its twenty-second special session, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General, 4 Having also considered the report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on its tenth session, 5 1 Report of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, Bridgetown, Barbados, 25 April-6 May 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.94.I.18 and corrigenda), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I. 2 Ibid., annex II. 3 See resolution S-22/2, annex. 4 A/55/185. 5 TD/390. 00 57127