A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/53/175 25 January 1999 Fifty-third session Agenda item 91 (d) RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Second Committee (A/53/606/Add.4)] 53/175. Enhancing international cooperation towards a durable solution to the external debt problem of developing countries The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 48/165 of 21 December 1993 and 50/92 of 20 December 1995, the report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the General Assembly for the Mid-Term Review of the Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s1 and the Agenda for Development,2 as well as the results, as agreed, of all major United Nations conferences and summit meetings held since the beginning of the 1990s, Recalling also its resolutions 51/164 of 16 December 1996 and 52/185 of 18 December 1997 on enhancing international cooperation towards a durable solution to the external debt problem of developing countries, Reaffirming the urgent need for further implementation in an effective, equitable and development-oriented way of existing mechanisms for the treatment of the external debt and debt-servicing problems of developing countries in order to help them to exit from the rescheduling process and unsustainable debt burdens, and, in this context, stressing the need to agree upon equitable burden-sharing among the international public creditor community, 1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 48 (A/51/48). 2 Resolution 51/240, annex. 99-76387 /...