A/RES/55/168
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 February 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 20 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/55/L.55/Rev.1 and Add.1)]
55/168. Assistance for humanitarian relief and the economic and
social rehabilitation of Somalia
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 43/206 of 20 December 1988, 44/178 of 19 December
1989, 45/229 of 21 December 1990, 46/176 of 19 December 1991, 47/160 of
18 December 1992, 48/201 of 21 December 1993, 49/21 L of 20 December 1994,
50/58 G of 20 December 1995, 51/30 G of 13 December 1996, 52/169 L of
16 December 1997, 53/1 M of 8 December 1998 and 54/96 D of 8 December 1999
as well as the resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council on
emergency assistance to Somalia,
Recalling also Security Council resolution 733 (1992) of 23 January 1992 and
all subsequent relevant resolutions, in which the Council, inter alia, urged all parties,
movements and factions in Somalia to facilitate the efforts of the United Nations,
the specialized agencies and humanitarian organizations to provide urgent
humanitarian assistance to the affected population in Somalia, and reiterated the call
for the full respect of the security and safety of the personnel of those organizations
and guarantee of their complete freedom of movement in and around Mogadishu and
other parts of Somalia,
Recalling further the statement by the President of the Security Council of
29 June 2000 1 in which, inter alia, the Security Council expressed its full support for
the efforts exerted by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development to find a
political solution to the situation in Somalia, underlined the importance of the
widest participation of the representatives of all parts of Somali society, strongly
urged representatives of all social and political forces of Somali society to
participate actively, urged the warlords and faction leaders to desist from obstructing
and undermining efforts to achieve peace, and also urged all States to stop providing
those individuals with the means to carry on their destructive activities,
Noting the cooperation between the United Nations, the Organization of
African Unity, the League of Arab States, the European Union, the Organization of
the Islamic Conference, the countries members of the Intergovernmental Authority
on Development and its Partners Forum, the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries
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S/PRST/2000/22; see Resolutions and Decisions of the Security Council, 2000.