United Nations
A/RES/57/154
General Assembly
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 21 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/57/L.65 and Add.1)]
57/154. Assistance for humanitarian relief and the economic and
social rehabilitation of Somalia
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 47/160 of 18 December 1992 and subsequent relevant
resolutions, in particular resolution 56/106 of 14 December 2001,
Recalling also Security Council resolution 733 (1992) of 23 January 1992 and
subsequent relevant resolutions, in which the Council, inter alia, urged all parties,
movements and factions in Somalia to facilitate the efforts of the United Nations, the
specialized agencies and humanitarian organizations to provide urgent humanitarian
assistance to the affected population in Somalia, and reiterated the call for the full respect
of the security and safety of the personnel of those organizations and guarantee of their
complete freedom of movement in and around Mogadishu and other parts of Somalia,
Recalling further statements by the President of the Security Council of 31 October
20011 and 28 March 2002,2 by which the Security Council condemned attacks on
humanitarian personnel and called upon all parties in Somalia to respect fully the security
and safety of personnel of the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red
Cross and non-governmental organizations, and to guarantee their complete freedom of
movement and access throughout Somalia,
Affirming its continuing support for the Intergovernmental Authority on
Development resolutions of 24 November 2000 and 11 January 2002, which provide a
general framework for the Somali reconciliation process,
Welcoming in that regard the Declaration on Cessation of Hostilities and the
Structures and Principles of the Somalia National Reconciliation Process, adopted in
Eldoret, Kenya, on 27 October 20023 by the various Somali parties, including the
Transitional National Government, which represents a fundamental step that will ensure a
wider consensual basis for further participation and peace,
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1
S/PRST/2001/30.
S/PRST/2002/8.
3
S/2002/1359, annex.
2
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