United Nations A/RES/57/276 General Assembly Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 96 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Second Committee (A/57/541)] 57/276. Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 52/187 of 18 December 1997, in which it decided to convene the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries at a high level in 2001, as well as its resolutions 53/182 of 15 December 1998, 54/235 of 23 December 1999 and 55/214 of 20 December 2000, Recalling also 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 Welcoming the establishment of the Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, pursuant to its resolution 56/227 of 24 December 2001, Taking note of the outcome of the Ministerial Conference of the Least Developed Countries, held at Cotonou from 5 to 7 August 2002, 3 Taking note also of the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of General Assembly resolution 56/227 on the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, 4 1. Reaffirms that global-level follow-up to the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010 2 should be primarily concerned with assessing the economic and social performance of the least developed countries, monitoring the implementation of commitments by the least developed countries and their development partners, reviewing the functioning of implementation and follow-up mechanisms at the country, subregional, regional and sectoral levels and policy developments at the global level that have implications for the least developed countries; _______________ 1 A/CONF.191/12. A/CONF.191/11. 3 A/57/436, annex. 4 A/57/496. 2 02 55759 Distr.: General 7 March 2003