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1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General2 on the implementation of the commitments
and policies agreed upon in the Declaration on International Economic Cooperation, in particular the
Revitalization of Economic Growth and Development of the Developing Countries, and the implementation
of the International Development Strategy for the Fourth United Nations Development Decade;
2. Recognizes the need to strengthen the implementation of the Declaration and the Strategy in the
remaining years of the 1990s, in close collaboration with, inter alia, efforts undertaken in the context of
the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s3 and its implementing arm,
the United Nations System-wide Special Initiative on Africa, and the Programme of Action for the Least
Developed Countries for the 1990s;4
3. Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with all concerned organs and organizations of
the United Nations system, including the Bretton Woods institutions, as well as other relevant international
organizations, to submit to the General Assembly for consideration at its fifty-fourth session an analytical
report containing a thorough evaluation of the implementation of the commitments and policies agreed
upon in the Declaration and of the implementation of the Strategy, including the progress made and the
constraints encountered therein;
4. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session an item entitled
“Sustainable development and international cooperation: implementation of the commitments and policies
agreed upon in the Declaration on International Economic Cooperation, in particular the Revitalization of
Economic Growth and Development of the Developing Countries, and implementation of the International
Development Strategy for the Fourth United Nations Development Decade”.
91st plenary meeting
15 December 1998
2
A/53/301.
3
Resolution 46/151, annex.
4
See Report of the Second United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Paris, 3–14
September 1990 (A/CONF.147/18), part one.