United Nations
A/RES/58/116
General Assembly
Distr.: General
5 February 2004
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 40 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2003
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/58/L.41 and Add.1)]
58/116. Economic assistance for the reconstruction and
development of Djibouti
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 56/108 of 14 December 2001 and its previous
resolutions on economic assistance to Djibouti,
Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 1
Recalling further the Brussels Declaration 2 and the Programme of Action for
the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010, 3 adopted by the Third
United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries on 20 May 2001, as
well as the mutual commitments undertaken on that occasion and the importance
attached to follow-up and the implementation of the Programme of Action,
Aware that Djibouti is included in the list of least developed countries and that
it is ranked 153rd out of the 175 countries studied in the Human Development
Report 2003, 4
Noting that the economic and social development efforts of Djibouti are
constrained by the extremes of the local climate, in particular cyclical droughts, and
that the implementation of reconstruction and development programmes requires the
deployment of substantial resources which exceed the limited capacity of the
country,
Noting also that the situation in Djibouti has been made worse by the
disastrous drought situation prevailing in the Horn of Africa and by the absence of
natural resources, which continues to place serious constraints on the fragile
economic, budgetary, social and administrative infrastructure of the country,
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1
See resolution 55/2.
A/CONF.191/13, chap. I.
3
Ibid., chap. II.
4
Published for the United Nations Development Programme by Oxford University Press, New York, 2003.
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