A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/52/210 27 February 1998 Fifty-second session Agenda item 12 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Second Committee (A/52/625)] 52/210. Report of the Committee for Development Planning The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 46/206 of 20 December 1991 on the report of the Committee for Development Planning and criteria for identifying the least developed countries, Taking note of subparagraph (a) of Economic and Social Council decision 1997/223 of 18 July 1997, by which the Council endorsed the recommendation of the Committee for Development Planning that Vanuatu be graduated from the list of least developed countries, Taking note also of subparagraph (b) of Economic and Social Council decision 1997/223, Taking note further of the content of the letter of the Prime Minister of Vanuatu1 advancing reasons to support his position that the review of the status of Vanuatu should be deferred until the year 2000, Taking note of the decision of the Committee for Development Planning, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 51/183 of 16 December 1996, to examine,2 as part of its work programme for 19971998, the report to be prepared by the Secretary-General on the vulnerability index for small island developing States and to consider the usefulness of such an index as a criterion for the designation of least developed countries in its examination of issues related to improvements to the criteria and methodology for the designation of least developed countries,3 1 A/C.2/52/5, annex, appendix. 2 Without prejudice to the review by the Economic and Social Council of its subsidiary bodies, as initiated in accordance with General Assembly resolution 50/227 of 24 May 1996, and bearing in mind other relevant Assembly resolutions. 3 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1997, Supplement No. 15 (E/1997/35), para. 241 (c). 98-77041 /...