A/RES/57/2 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 30 September 2002 Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 41 (a) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [without reference to a Main Committee (A/57/L.2/Rev.1 and Add.1)] 57/2. United Nations Declaration on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development The General Assembly Adopts the following Declaration: United Nations Declaration on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development 1. We, heads of State and Government and heads of delegations participating in the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly held on 16 September 2002, considered how to support the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, 1 which is a programme of the African Union. This meeting forms part of the final review and appraisal of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s 2 at this, the fifty-seventh session of the Assembly. 2. We reaffirm our commitment to the United Nations Millennium Declaration, adopted on 8 September 2000, 3 and the internationally agreed development goals as the embodiment of our collective desire for and aspiration to a better world in which all peoples can live in dignity and peace. 3. We recommit ourselves to meeting the special needs of Africa as recognized in the Millennium Declaration, the ministerial declaration of the high-level segment of the substantive session of 2001 of the Economic and Social Council on the role of the United Nations in support of the efforts of African countries to achieve sustainable development, adopted on 18 July 2001, 4 the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development, adopted on 22 March _______________ 1 A/57/304, annex. Resolution 46/151, annex, sect. II. 3 See resolution 55/2. 4 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/56/3/Rev.1), chap. III, para. 29. 2 02 53800