United Nations A/RES/56/180 General Assembly Distr.: General 24 January 2002 Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 95 (a) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Second Committee (A/56/558/Add.1)] 56/180. Specific actions related to the particular needs and problems of landlocked developing countries The General Assembly, Recalling the provisions of its resolutions 44/214 of 22 December 1989, 46/212 of 20 December 1991, 48/169 of 21 December 1993, 50/97 of 20 December 1995, 52/183 of 18 December 1997 and 54/199 of 22 December 1999 and the Global Framework for Transit Transport Cooperation between Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and the Donor Community, 1 as well as the relevant parts of the Agenda for Development, 2 Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 3 in which heads of State and Government recognized the particular needs and problems of the landlocked developing countries and urged both bilateral and multilateral donors to increase financial and technical assistance to this group of countries to meet their particular development needs and to help them to overcome the impediments of geography by improving their transit transport systems, and resolved to create an environment, at the national and global levels alike, that is conducive to development and to the elimination of poverty, Recognizing that the lack of territorial access to the sea, aggravated by remoteness and isolation from world markets, and prohibitive transit costs and risks impose serious constraints on the overall socio-economic development efforts of the landlocked developing countries, Recognizing also that sixteen of the landlocked developing countries are also classified by the United Nations as least developed countries and that their geographical situation is an added constraint on their overall ability to cope with the challenges of development, Recognizing further that most transit countries are themselves developing countries facing serious economic problems, including the lack of adequate infrastructure in the transport sector, _______________ 1 TD/B/42(1)/11-TD/B/LDC/AC.1/7, annex I. Resolution 51/240, annex. 3 See resolution 55/2. 2 01 49089