A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/51/168 21 February 1997 Fifty-first session Agenda item 94 (c) RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Second Committee (A/51/602)] 51/168. Transit environment in the landlocked States in Central Asia and their transit developing neighbours The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 48/169 and 48/170 of 21 December 1993 and 49/102 of 19 December 1994, Recalling also the agreed conclusions and recommendations of the first1 and the second2 Meeting of Governmental Experts from Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and Representatives of Donor Countries and Financial and Development Institutions, held in New York from 17 to 19 May 1993 and from 19 to 22 June 1995, respectively, and in particular the conclusions and recommendations of those meetings pertaining to the newly independent and developing landlocked States in Central Asia and their transit developing neighbours, Recognizing that the overall socio-economic development efforts of newly independent and developing landlocked States, seeking to enter world markets through the establishment of a multicountry transit system, are impeded by a lack of territorial access to the sea as well as by remoteness and isolation from world markets, Supporting the current efforts being undertaken by the newly independent and developing landlocked States in Central Asia and their transit developing neighbours through relevant multilateral, bilateral and regional arrangements 1 See TD/B/40(1)/2-TD/B/LDC/AC.1/4. 2 See TD/B/42(1)/11-TD/B/LDC/AC.1/7. 97-76849 /...