A/RES/50/92
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global economy and to the efforts of developing countries to achieve sustained
economic growth and sustainable development;
3.
Also recognizes that the evolving international debt strategy has
to be supplemented by appropriate external financial flows to indebted
developing countries;
4.
Emphasizes the importance for developing countries of continuing
their efforts to promote a favourable environment for attracting foreign
investment, thereby promoting economic growth and sustainable development, and
stresses the need for the international community to promote a conducive
external economic environment through, inter alia, improved market access,
stabilization of exchange rates, effective stewardship of international
interest rates and increased resource flows, as well as improved access to
technology for the developing countries;
5.
Stresses the need for finding effective, equitable, developmentoriented and durable solutions to the continuing debt and debt-servicing
problems of the poorest and most indebted developing countries and the
importance of a full, constructive and expeditious implementation of the
Naples terms, agreed upon in the Paris Club in December 1994, for such
countries, with a view to helping them exit from the rescheduling process on
the basis of sound economic policies in those countries, thus contributing to
the promotion of their prospects for resuming growth and development;
6.
Recognizes the efforts of indebted developing countries in
fulfilling their commitments on debt servicing despite the incurring of a high
social cost and, in this regard, encourages private creditors and, in
particular, commercial banks to continue their initiatives and efforts to
address the commercial debt problems of middle-income developing countries;
7.
Invites creditor countries, private banks and multilateral
financial institutions, within their prerogatives, to consider continuing the
initiatives and efforts to address the commercial debt problems of the least
developed countries and the requests for continued mobilization of resources
through the Debt-reduction Facility of the International Development
Association in order to help eligible least developed countries reduce their
commercial debt;
8.
Notes the high proportion of multilateral debt of a number of
developing countries and invites international financial institutions to
examine proposals to tackle the problems of those countries with regard to
multilateral debt, taking into account the specific situation of each country,
while preserving the preferred creditor status of the multilateral financial
institutions, in order to ensure that they can continue to provide
concessional financing to those developing countries to assist their
development;
9.
Reaffirms the mid-term global review of the implementation of the
Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s, in
particular the appropriate actions in favour of least developed countries
concerning their official bilateral, commercial and multilateral debt;
10.
Notes with concern the continuing burden of debt and debt-service
obligations of middle-income countries, including in particular those in
Africa, and encourages creditors, including multilateral financial
institutions and commercial banks, to continue to address their obligations
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