United Nations General Assembly A/RES/55/214 Distr.: General 22 February 2001 Fifty-fifth session Agenda item 102 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Second Committee (A/55/589)] 55/214. Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 52/187 of 18 December 1997, in which it decided to convene the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries at a high level in 2001, as well as its resolutions 53/182 of 15 December 1998 and 54/235 of 23 December 1999, Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted on 8 September 2000 by the heads of State and Government on the occasion of the Millennium Summit, 1 Taking note of the Declaration and the Programme of Action adopted at the South Summit of the Group of 77, held at Havana from 10 to 14 April 2000, 2 the Declaration adopted by the Tenth Annual Ministerial Meeting of the Least Developed Countries, held in New York on 18 September 2000, 3 and the Ministerial Statement adopted at the twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Group of 77, held in New York on 15 September 2000, 4 Noting the progress made in the preparatory process for the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries at the country, regional and global levels, Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General on the status of preparations for the Conference, 5 the report of the Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee for the Conference on its first session, held in New York from 24 to 28 July 2000, 6 and 1 See resolution 55/2. A/55/74, annexes I and II. 3 A/C.2/55/4, annex. 4 A/55/459, annex. 5 A/55/222. 6 A/CONF.191/2. 2 00 57199