A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/53/90 16 December 1998 Fifty-third session Agenda item 24 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [without reference to a Main Committee (A/53/L.39/Rev.1 and Rev.1/Add.1)] 53/90. Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 46/151 of 18 December 1991, the annex to which contains the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, Recalling also its resolutions 48/214 of 23 December 1993 and 49/142 of 23 December 1994 on the New Agenda, as well as its resolution 51/32 of 6 December 1996 on the mid-term review of the implementation of the New Agenda, Mindful of the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination at its thirty-seventh1 and the first part of its thirty-eighth2 sessions relating to its consideration of the United Nations System-wide Special Initiative for the Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, launched by the Secretary-General on 15 March 1996, Recognizing that, despite some improvements in economic performance in several countries in Africa, the continent continues to face critical social and economic problems, 1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/52/16), chap. IV.B. 2 Ibid., Fifty-third Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/53/16), part one, chap. III.C. 98-77719 /...