A/RES/62/204 Recognizing that the lack of territorial access to the sea, aggravated by remoteness from world markets, and prohibitive transit costs and risks continue to impose serious constraints on export earnings, private capital inflow and domestic resource mobilization of landlocked developing countries and therefore adversely affect their overall growth and socio-economic development, Recognizing also that cooperation between transit countries and landlocked developing countries results in better transit transport systems, Expressing support to those landlocked developing countries that are emerging from conflict, with a view to enabling them to rehabilitate and reconstruct, as appropriate, political, social and economic infrastructure and assisting them in achieving their development priorities, in accordance with the goals and targets of the Almaty Programme of Action: Addressing the Special Needs of Landlocked Developing Countries within a New Global Framework for Transit Transport Cooperation for Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries, 7 6F Recalling the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, 8 an initiative for accelerating regional economic cooperation and development, as many landlocked and transit developing countries are located in Africa, 7F Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the status of 1. preparations for the midterm review of the Almaty Programme of Action; 9 8F 2. Also takes note of the outcome documents of the Thematic Meeting on Transit Transport Infrastructure Development, held in Ouagadougou from 18 to 20 June 2007, 10 and of the Thematic Meeting on International Trade and Trade Facilitation, held in Ulaanbaatar on 30 and 31 August 2007; 11 9F 10F 3. Reaffirms the right of access of landlocked countries to and from the sea and freedom of transit through the territory of transit countries by all means of transport, in accordance with the applicable rules of international law; Also reaffirms that transit countries, in the exercise of their full 4. sovereignty over their territory, have the right to take all measures necessary to ensure that the rights and facilities provided for landlocked countries in no way infringe their legitimate interests; Encourages donors and multilateral and regional financial and 5. development institutions, in particular the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, to provide landlocked and transit developing countries with appropriate technical and financial assistance in the form of grants or concessionary loans for the implementation of the Almaty Programme of Action: Addressing the Special Needs of Landlocked Developing Countries within a New Global Framework for Transit Transport Cooperation for Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries7 in particular for the construction, maintenance and improvement of their transport, storage and other transit-related facilities, including alternative routes and improved 0H _______________ 7 Report of the International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and Donor Countries and International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit Transport Cooperation, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 28 and 29 August 2003 (A/CONF.202/3), annex I. 8 A/57/304, annex. 9 A/62/226. 10 A/62/256 and Corr.1, annexes I and II. 11 A/C.2/62/4, annexes I and II. 2