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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/49/133
14 February 1995
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 12
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/49/726)]
49/133.
Report of the Committee for Development
Planning: general review of the list of
the least developed countries
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 45/206 of 21 December 1990 and 46/206 of 20
December 1991,
Taking note of Economic and Social Council decision 1994/225 of 14 July
1994 on the report of the Committee for Development Planning on its twentyninth session, 1/ in which the Council decided to transmit the
recommendations contained in chapter V, section B, of that report to the
General Assembly at its forty-ninth session for approval,
Noting with concern the increase in the number of least developed
countries, particularly in Africa, and underlining the importance of the
creation of a conducive international economic environment for the growth and
development of developing countries, particularly the least developed
countries,
Recognizing that the decision to include any country in the group of
least developed countries should be made with that country’s due consent,
1.
Takes note of the general review of the list of the least
developed countries 2/ carried out by the Committee for Development
1/
Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1994,
Supplement No. 2 (E/1994/22).
2/
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Ibid., chap. V.