United Nations A/RES/59/244 General Assembly Distr.: General 3 March 2005 Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 88 (a) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2004 [on the report of the Second Committee (A/59/486/Add.1)] 59/244. Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 55/279 of 12 July 2001, in which it endorsed the Brussels Declaration 1 and the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010, 2 and its resolutions 57/276 of 20 December 2002 and 58/228 of 23 December 2003 on the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Reaffirming its resolution 55/2 of 8 September 2000, by which it adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration, in particular paragraph 15 thereof, in which the Heads of State and Government undertook to address the special needs of the least developed countries, Recognizing the importance of the review of the progress achieved towards meeting the goals and targets contained in the Programme of Action, as well as other internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration, as they address the special needs of the least developed countries, Taking note of the ministerial declaration of the high-level segment of the substantive session of 2004 of the Economic and Social Council on the theme “Resources mobilization and enabling environment for poverty eradication in the context of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010”, 3 Taking note also of Economic and Social Council resolutions 2004/66 of 5 November 2004 on the smooth transition strategy for countries graduating from the list of least developed countries and 2004/67 of 5 November 2004 on the report of the Committee for Development Policy on its sixth session, _______________ 1 A/CONF.191/13, chap. I. Ibid., chap. II. 3 A/59/3, chap. III, para. 49. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 3. 2 04-49090