A/RES/56/191 the Least Developed Countries, 4 and the special session of the General Assembly for an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the Habitat Agenda,5 Emphasizing the importance of the other development-oriented meetings to be convened under the auspices of the United Nations in 2002, including the International Conference on Financing for Development, the special session of the General Assembly on children and the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 1. Expresses regret that the consultations foreseen in resolution 54/206 could not be held; 2. Decides to consider the issue of further development of a new international development strategy during the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly, on the basis of the outcomes of the aforementioned meetings and keeping in mind the outcome of the review of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s;6 3. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session with an overview of the challenges and constraints as well as progress made towards achieving the major development goals and objectives adopted by the United Nations during the past decade; 4. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session, under the item entitled “Sustainable development and international economic cooperation”, a sub-item entitled “Implementation of the Declaration on International Economic Cooperation, in particular the Revitalization of Economic Growth and Development of the Developing Countries, and implementation of the International Development Strategy for the Fourth United Nations Development Decade”. 90th plenary meeting 21 December 2001 _______________ 4 A/CONF.191/11. Resolution S-25/2, annex. 6 Resolution 46/151, annex, sect. II. 5 2