A/RES/56/178 preparatory process for the final review and appraisal of the implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, 8 1. Welcomes the decision by the Trade and Development Board to conduct the midterm review of the outcome of the tenth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development at Bangkok from 29 April to 3 May 2002, and, in this regard, expresses deep appreciation to the Government of Thailand for offering to host the meeting; 2. Stresses the importance of continued substantive consideration of the sub-item on trade and development, under the item entitled “Macroeconomic policy questions”; 3. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session, under the item entitled “Macroeconomic policy questions”, a sub-item entitled “International trade and development”; 4. Requests the Secretary-General, in collaboration with the secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session on the implementation of the present resolution and developments in the multilateral trading system. 90th plenary meeting 21 December 2001 _______________ 8 2 A/56/435.