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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/50/92
2 February 1996
Fiftieth session
Agenda item 94
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/50/616)]
50/92.
Enhancing international cooperation towards a durable
solution to the external debt problem of developing
countries
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 41/202 of 8 December 1986, 42/198 of 11
December 1987, 43/198 of 20 December 1988, 44/205 of 22 December 1989, 45/214
of 21 December 1990, 46/148 and 46/151 of 18 December 1991 and 47/198 of 22
December 1992, and reaffirming its resolutions 48/182 of 21 December 1993 and
49/94 of 19 December 1994,
Reaffirming its resolutions 48/165 of 21 December 1993 on renewal of the
dialogue on strengthening international economic cooperation for development
through partnership and 48/166 of 21 December 1993 on an agenda for
development,
Noting the improvement in the debt situation of a number of developing
countries since the second half of the 1980s and the contribution that the
evolving debt strategy has made to this improvement,
Noting with appreciation the debt-relief measures undertaken by creditor
countries both within the framework of the Paris Club and through their
cancellation and equivalent relief of bilateral official debt, and welcoming
the even more favourable terms of the debt-relief measures recently envisaged
by the Paris Club, namely the Naples terms of December 1994, for the poorest
and heavily indebted countries, to help them exit from the rescheduling
process, thus contributing to the prospects of those countries for resuming
growth and development,
Reaffirming the urgent need for effective, equitable,
development-oriented and durable solutions to the external debt and
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