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effectively;
11.
Stresses the importance of continued concessional Enhanced
Structural Adjustment Facility lending operations for low-income countries;
12.
Also stresses the need for existing facilities to provide
debt-relief measures through various debt conversion programmes, where
possible, such as debt-equity swaps, debt-for-nature swaps,
debt-for-child-development swaps, and other debt-for-development swaps, to be
widely implemented so that the countries concerned may be ably assisted in
their development efforts, as well as to support measures in favour of the
most vulnerable segments of the societies of those countries and to develop
techniques of debt conversion applied to social development programmes and
projects, in conformity with the priorities of the World Summit for Social
Development, held at Copenhagen in March 1995;
13.
Further stresses the need for, in addition to debt-relief measures
that include debt and debt-service reduction, new financial flows to debtor
developing countries, and urges creditor countries and multilateral financial
institutions to continue to extend concessional financial assistance,
particularly to the least developed countries, in order to support the
implementation of economic reforms, stabilization and structural adjustment
programmes and the eradication of poverty by the developing countries so as to
enable them to extricate themselves from the debt overhang and to assist them
in achieving sustained economic growth and sustainable development;
14.
Stresses the need for the expeditious conclusion of the ongoing
work of the International Monetary Fund, in close collaboration with the World
Bank, on the steps to address the problems of those low-income countries that
are undertaking strong adjustment and reform programmes but whose debt
situation, including debt to multilateral institutions, may prove
unsustainable, even after debt reduction on the Naples terms, within this
context urging donor countries to fulfil promptly their commitments to the
tenth replenishment of the International Development Association and to
support a significant replenishment through the eleventh replenishment of the
Association, and requests the Secretary-General to report to the General
Assembly at its fifty-first session on the outcome of the meeting of the
Development Committee scheduled for April 1996;
15.
Notes the initiative to develop new, parallel financing
arrangements, complementary to the General Arrangements to Borrow, with the
aim of doubling the resources currently available under the General
Arrangements to Borrow;
16.
Recognizes that the evolving debt strategy must be accompanied by
a favourable and supportive international environment, including the full
implementation of the results of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade
negotiations, and the Marrakesh ministerial decisions in favour of the least
developed countries and net food-importing developing countries; 5/
5/ See Legal Instruments Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round
of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, done at Marrakesh on 15 April 1994
(GATT secretariat publication, Sales No. GATT/1994-7).
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