United Nations General Assembly A/RES/58/228 Distr.: General 25 February 2004 Fifty-eighth session Agenda item 102 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2003 [on the report of the Second Committee (A/58/492)] 58/228. Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 55/279 of 12 July 2001, in which it endorsed the Brussels Declaration 1 and the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010, 2 and its resolution 57/276 of 20 December 2002 on the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Reaffirming its resolution 55/2 of 8 September 2000, by which it adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration, in particular paragraph 15 thereof, in which the heads of State and Government undertook to address the special needs of the least developed countries, Recalling Economic and Social Council decision 2001/320 of 24 October 2001, in which the Council decided to establish a regular sub-item entitled “Review and coordination of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010”, Taking note of Economic and Social Council resolution 2003/17 of 22 July 2003, in which the Council took note of the progress report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries, 3 Taking note also of Economic and Social Council decision 2003/287 of 24 July 2003, in which the Council adopted the theme “Resources mobilization and enabling environment for poverty eradication in the context of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010” as the theme of its high-level segment of 2004, Taking note further of the report of the Secretary-General,3 _______________ 1 A/CONF.191/13, chap. I. Ibid., chap. II. 3 A/58/86-E/2003/81. 2 03 50820