A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/52/187 4 February 1998 Fifty-second session Agenda item 97 (b) RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Second Committee (A/52/628/Add.2)] 52/187. Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 45/206 of 21 December 1990, in which it endorsed the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s,1 and its resolution 48/171 of 21 December 1993, in which it decided to convene a high-level intergovernmental meeting to conduct a mid-term global review, Recalling also its resolution 50/103 of 20 December 1995, in which it recalled that at the end of the decade, a global review and appraisal of the implementation of the Programme of Action would be carried out, in accordance with paragraph 140 of the Programme of Action and paragraph 7 (c) of its resolution 45/206, Taking note of The Least Developed Countries, 1997 Report, prepared by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development,2 and the report of the Secretary-General on implementation of the Programme of Action,3 which highlights the main developmental difficulties the least developed countries continue to face, Recognizing that the significant policy reform efforts undertaken by the least developed countries, which in many cases have been wide-ranging and difficult to implement, should be pursued further and that structural adjustment poses real challenges and resource issues for those countries, and, in this context, 1 See Report of the Second United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Paris, 3-14 September 1990 (A/CONF.147/18), part one. 2 United Nations publication, Sales No. E.97.II.D.6. 3 A/52/279. 98-76579 /...