United Nations
A/RES/56/108
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 February 2002
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 20 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/56/L.56 and Add.1)]
56/108. Economic assistance for the reconstruction and
development of Djibouti
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 54/96 C of 8 December 1999 and its previous
resolutions on economic assistance to Djibouti,
Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 1
Recalling further the Brussels Declaration2 and the Programme of Action for
the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010, 3 adopted by the Third
United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries on 20 May 2001, as
well as the mutual commitments undertaken on that occasion and the importance
attached to follow-up and the implementation of the Programme of Action,
Aware that Djibouti is included in the list of least developed countries and that
it is ranked 137th out of the 162 countries studied in the Human Development
Report 2001, 4
Noting that the economic and social development efforts of Djibouti are
constrained by the extremes of the local climate, in particular cyclical droughts, and
that the implementation of reconstruction and development programmes requires the
deployment of substantial resources which exceed the capacity of the country,
Noting also that the situation in Djibouti has been made worse by the drought
situation in the Horn of Africa, and noting further the presence of tens of thousands
of refugees and persons displaced from their countries, which has placed serious
strains on the fragile economic, social and administrative infrastructure of Djibouti
and caused security problems in the country, in particular in the city of Djibouti,
Noting with satisfaction that the Government of Djibouti is continuing to
implement a structural adjustment programme, and convinced of the necessity to
support that financial recovery programme and to take effective measures to
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See resolution 55/2.
A/CONF.191/12.
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A/CONF.191/11.
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Published for the United Nations Development Programme by Oxford University Press, New York, 2001.
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