A/RES/55/253
United Nations
Distr.: General
1 May 2001
General Assembly
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 12
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/55/L.80)]
55/253. Report of the Committee for Development Policy
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 46/206 of 20 December 1991 and 52/210 of
18 December 1997,
Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolutions 1998/39 of 30 July
1998 on the status of the least developed countries and 1999/67 of 16 December
1999 on the report of the Committee for Development Policy,
Recognizing that the decision to include any country in the list of the least
developed countries should be made with its due consent,
Having considered the recommendations of the Economic and Social Council
contained in its resolution 2000/34 of 28 July 2000,
Endorses the recommendation of the Economic and Social Council that
Senegal be added to the list of the least developed countries.
98th plenary meeting
12 April 2001
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