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outlined in the report of the Secretary-General of 13 May 19983 and approved by the General Assembly in
its resolution 53/3 of 12 October 1998 were completed;
4. Notes with concern that no extrabudgetary resources have been received to date in response to the
note verbale of 14 February 2000 addressed to all States members of the United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development, inviting them to consider providing, through voluntary contributions, resources to defray
the costs of participation of government representatives in the meetings of the Intergovernmental Preparatory
Committee for the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries and the Conference
itself;
5. Requests the Secretary-General to explore ways of providing the resource requirements for the
high-level international intergovernmental event on financing for development and the Third United Nations
Conference on the Least Developed Countries and to report to the General Assembly at the second part of
its resumed fifty-fourth session.
95th plenary meeting
7 April 2000
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A/52/898 and Corr.1.