United Nations A/RES/56/218 General Assembly Distr.: General 14 January 2002 Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 22 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [without reference to a Main Committee (A/56/L.61 and Add.1)] 56/218. Final review and appraisal of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s The General Assembly, Having considered the note by the Secretary-General on the final review and appraisal of the implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, 1 Reaffirming its resolutions 46/151 of 18 December 1991, the annex to which contains the New Agenda, and 51/32 of 6 December 1996, which states that the final review and appraisal of the New Agenda will be conducted in 2002, Reaffirming also its resolutions 48/214 of 23 December 1993, 49/142 of 23 December 1994, 53/90 of 7 December 1998 and 55/216 of 21 December 2000 on the implementation of the New Agenda, Reaffirming further its resolutions 54/234 of 22 December 1999 and 55/217 of 21 December 2000 on the causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa, and recalling its requests in resolutions 54/234 and 55/216 to conduct the final review and appraisal of the New Agenda and related initiatives on the basis of a report by the Secretary-General on an independent highlevel quality evaluation, Mindful of the ministerial declaration of the high-level segment of the Economic and Social Council on the role of the United Nations in support of the efforts of African countries to achieve sustainable development, adopted on 18 July 2001, 2 with particular reference to paragraph 26, and the agreed conclusions 1999/2 adopted by the Economic and Social Council, at its substantive session of 1999, on coordination of the policies and activities of the specialized agencies and other bodies of the United Nations system related to the theme “Development of Africa: _______________ 1 A/56/270. A/56/3, chap. III, para. 29. For the final text see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 3. 2 01 49400