A/RES/56/508 United Nations Distr.: General 3 July 2002 General Assembly Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 22 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [without reference to a Main Committee (A/56/L.79)] 56/508. Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the General Assembly for the Final Review and Appraisal of the Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 56/218 of 21 December 2001, in which it decided to establish an ad hoc committee of the whole of the General Assembly to conduct the final review and appraisal of the implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s and related initiatives, Recalling also that, in its resolution 56/218, it also decided that the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole should meet in substantive session for a period of five working days, from 9 to 13 September 2002, and for three working days, from 7 to 9 October 2002, during the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly, Mindful of the fact that the fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly will close on Monday, 9 September, and that the fifty-seventh session will open on Tuesday, 10 September 2002, Taking into account its decision 56/468 of 1 May 2002, in which it decided to hold an eight-day general debate at its fifty-seventh session, from Thursday, 12 September, to Sunday, 15 September, and from Tuesday, 17 September, to Friday, 20 September 2002, Decides that the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the General Assembly for the Final Review and Appraisal of the Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s should meet in substantive session for three working days, from Tuesday, 24 September, to Thursday, 26 September 2002, and for five working days, from Monday, 7 October, to Friday, 11 October 2002. 105th plenary meeting 27 June 2002 02 45544