Plan International - Girls' Rights Platform - Girls' rights are human rights: Positioning girls at the heart of the international agenda

United Nations A/RES/55/184 General Assembly Distr.: General 22 January 2001 Fifty-fifth session Agenda item 92 (c) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Second Committee (A/55/579/Add.3)] 55/184. Enhancing international cooperation towards a durable solution to the external debt problem of developing countries The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 51/164 of 16 December 1996, 52/185 of 18 December 1997, 53/175 of 15 December 1998 and 54/202 of 22 December 1999 on enhancing international cooperation towards a durable solution to the external debt problems of developing countries, Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General on recent developments in the debt situation of developing countries, 1 Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted by the heads of State and Government on 8 September 2000, 2 Noting with concern the continuing debt and debt-servicing problems of heavily indebted developing countries as constituting an element that adversely affects their development efforts and economic growth, and stressing the importance of alleviating once and for all, where applicable, their onerous debt and debt-service burden with the aim of attaining a sustainable level of debt and debt service, Noting with great concern the continuing high debt burden borne by most African countries and the least developed countries, as exacerbated, inter alia, by the declining trend in commodity prices, and noting that the financial crisis has aggravated the debt-service burdens of many developing countries, including lowand middle-income countries, in particular in the context of meeting their international debt and debt-servicing obligations in a timely fashion despite serious external and domestic financial constraints, Reaffirming the need to consider further measures, as appropriate, for dealing with the external debt and debt-servicing problems of developing countries in an effective, equitable and development-oriented manner, in order to help them to exit 1 2 00 60988 A/55/422. See resolution 55/2.