United Nations A/RES/56/187 General Assembly Distr.: General 5 February 2002 Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 96 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Second Committee (A/56/559)] 56/187. Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa (1993–2002) The General Assembly, Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 1 the outcomes of major United Nations conferences and summits, the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s 2 and its resolutions 54/203 of 22 December 1999, 55/187 of 20 December 2000 and 55/216 of 21 December 2000, Recalling also Economic and Social Council decision 1999/270 of 28 July 1999 concerning the implementation and coordinated follow-up by the United Nations system of initiatives on African development, and taking note of the ministerial declaration of the high-level segment of the substantive session of 2001 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, 3 Taking note of the Plan of Action of the Alliance for Africa’s Industrialization, adopted by the Conference of African Ministers of Industry at its thirteenth meeting, held at Accra in May 1997, 4 the outcome of the Conference on Industrial Partnerships and Investment in Africa, held at Dakar on 20 and 21 October 1999, and the outcome of the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of African Ministers of Industry, held at Yaoundé on 29 and 30 October 2001, Taking note also of the statement of the Conference of African Ministers of Trade, held at Abuja in September 2001, to the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, and recalling resolution 2 (XIV) on the African common position on globalization, adopted by the fourteenth meeting of the Conference of African Ministers of Industry, held at Dakar on 22 and 23 October 1999, 5 both of _______________ 1 See resolution 55/2. Resolution 46/151, annex, sect. II. 3 A/56/3, chap. III, para. 29. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 3. 4 See A/52/480, sect. IV.C. 5 See E/ECA/CAMI.14/99/10, annex IV. 2 01 49207