United Nations General Assembly A/RES/56/198 Distr.: General 15 February 2002 Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 98 (e) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Second Committee (A/56/561/Add.5)] 56/198. Further implementation of the outcome of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 49/122 of 19 December 1994 on the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, Recalling also its resolutions 51/183 of 16 December 1996, 52/202 of 18 December 1997, 53/189 of 15 December 1998, 54/224 of 22 December 1999 and 55/202 of 20 December 2000, Recalling further the Declaration of Barbados 1 and the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States 2 adopted by the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, Recalling the Declaration and review document adopted by the General Assembly at its twenty-second special session, 3 Recalling also the report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on its tenth session, 4 Recognizing that, within the context of the challenges of development, small island developing States can experience specific problems arising from small size, remoteness, geographical dispersion, vulnerability to natural disasters, fragile ecosystems, constraints on transport and communication, isolation from markets, vulnerability to exogenous economic and financial shocks, limited internal markets, lack of natural resources, limited freshwater supply, heavy dependence on imports and limited commodities, depletion of non-renewable resources and migration, _______________ 1 Report of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, Bridgetown, Barbados, 25 April–6 May 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.94.I.18 and corrigenda), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I. 2 Ibid., annex II. 3 See resolution S-22/2, annex. 4 TD/390. 01 49279