United Nations A/RES/55/181 General Assembly Distr.: General 18 January 2001 Fifty-fifth session Agenda item 92 (a) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Second Committee (A/55/579/Add.1)] 55/181. Transit environment in the landlocked States in Central Asia and their transit developing neighbours The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 48/169 and 48/170 of 21 December 1993, 49/102 of 19 December 1994, 51/168 of 16 December 1996, 53/171 of 15 December 1998 and 55/2 of 8 September 2000, Recalling also the Global Framework for Transit Transport Cooperation between Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and the Donor Community 1 and other relevant international legal instruments, Recognizing that the overall socio-economic development efforts of the landlocked States in Central Asia, seeking to enter world markets through the establishment of a multicountry transit system, are impeded by a lack of territorial access to the sea and by remoteness and isolation from world markets as well as by a lack of adequate infrastructure in the transport sector in their transit developing neighbours owing to their economic problems, Reaffirming that transit States, in the exercise of full sovereignty over their territory, have the right to take all measures necessary to ensure that the rights and facilities provided for landlocked States in no way infringe upon their legitimate interests, Expressing its support for the current efforts being undertaken by the newly independent and developing landlocked States in Central Asia and their transit developing neighbours, through relevant multilateral, bilateral and regional arrangements, to address issues regarding the development of a viable transit infrastructure in the region, Taking note of the report prepared by the secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on the transit environment in the landlocked States in Central Asia and their transit developing neighbours, 2 and considering that the problems of transit transport facing the Central Asian region need to be seen 1 2 00 57025 TD/B/42(1)/11-TD/B/LDC/AC.1/7, annex I. A/53/331, annex.