A/RES/55/279 United Nations Distr.: General 7 August 2001 General Assembly Fifty-fifth session Agenda item 102 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [without reference to a Main Committee (A/55/L.88 and Add.1)] 55/279. Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010 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, 1. Endorses the Brussels Declaration 1 and the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010, 2 adopted by the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, held in Brussels from 14 to 20 May 2001; 2. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session an item entitled “Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010”. 107th plenary meeting 12 July 2001 1 2 00 57583 A/CONF.191/12. A/CONF.191/11.