A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/54/114 8 February 2000 Fifty-fourth session Agenda item 45 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [without reference to a Main Committee (A/54/L.61 and Add.1)] 54/114. Global implications of the year 2000 date conversion problem of computers The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 52/233 of 26 June 1998 and 53/86 of 7 Dec ember 1998, entitled “Global implications of the year 2000 date conversion problem of computers”, Welcoming the report of the Secretary-General entitled “Steps taken within the United Nations system and with Member States to resolve the year 2000 date conversion of computers”, 1 Recognizing that the effective operation of Governments, companies and other organizations is threatened by the year 2000 date conversion problem of computers, or “millennium bug”, Underlining the need for effective action to address the problem to be intensified as the inflexible date of 31 December 1999 draws nearer and nearer, beyond which important systems might cease to function, Recognizing the potentially serious impact that the year 2000 problem could have in all countries whose economies are increasingly interdependent, 1 A/54/525. 00 27762 /...