A/RES/57/7
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 November 2002
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 41 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/57/468/Add.1)]
57/7.
Final review and appraisal of the United Nations New
Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s
and support for the New Partnership for Africa’s
Development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 46/151 of 18 December 1991, the annex to which
contains the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the
1990s,
Also recalling its resolutions 48/214 of 23 December 1993 and 49/142 of
23 December 1994 on the New Agenda, resolution 51/32 of 6 December 1996 on the
mid-term review of the implementation of the New Agenda and resolution 55/216 of
21 December 2000, in which it reaffirmed its decision to conduct in 2002 the final
review and appraisal of the New Agenda,
Further recalling its resolution 56/218 of 21 December 2001, by which it
established the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the General Assembly for the
Final Review and Appraisal of the Implementation of the United Nations New
Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s to conduct, during the fiftyseventh session of the Assembly, the final review and appraisal of the New Agenda
and related initiatives on the basis of the report of the Secretary-General on the
independent high-level quality evaluation, as well as on proposals by the SecretaryGeneral on the modalities of the future engagement of the United Nations with the
New Partnership for Africa’s Development, and resolution 56/508 of 27 June 2002,
by which it decided that the Ad Hoc Committee should meet in substantive session
for three working days, from 24 to 26 September 2002,
Mindful of its resolution 56/511 of 15 August 2002, by which it decided on the
organization of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly to consider
how to support the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, 1
Bearing in mind the ministerial declaration of the high-level segment of the
substantive session of 2001 of the Economic and Social Council, on the role of the
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A/57/304, annex.