United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/57/104
Distr.: General
13 February 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 21 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/57/L.46 and Add.1)]
57/104. Assistance to Mozambique
The General Assembly,
Recalling Security Council resolution 386 (1976) of 17 March 1976,
Recalling also its relevant resolutions, in particular resolutions 45/227 of
21 December 1990, 47/42 of 9 December 1992, 49/21 D of 20 December 1994,
51/30 D of 5 December 1996, 53/1 G of 16 November 1998 and 55/167 of
14 December 2000, in which it urged the international community to respond
effectively and generously to the call for assistance to Mozambique,
Recalling further the ten years of peace, stability, economic growth and
development in Mozambique and the holding of a special high-level meeting of the
Economic and Social Council on 4 October 2002 to commemorate the tenth
anniversary of the signing of the General Peace Agreement, 1 which ended the civil
war in the country,
Reaffirming the principles for humanitarian assistance contained in the annex
to its resolution 46/182 of 19 December 1991,
Recalling its resolutions 48/7 of 19 October 1993, 49/215 of 23 December
1994, 50/82 of 14 December 1995, 51/149 of 13 December 1996 and 52/173 of
18 December 1997 on assistance in mine action, and stressing the need to foster the
establishment of national mine action capacity with a view to enabling the
Government of Mozambique to deal more effectively with the adverse effects of
those weapons within the framework of the efforts for national reconstruction,
Recalling also its resolution 54/96 L of 10 March 2000 on assistance to
Mozambique following the devastating floods,
Deeply concerned at the unprecedented floods in Mozambique in 2000 and
2001, which have resulted in the tragic loss of human lives, extensive destruction of
property and infrastructure and the dislodging and scattering of landmines,
Deeply concerned also at the severe drought affecting Mozambique and other
countries of southern Africa, resulting in famine and poverty,
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