United Nations A/RES/56/184 General Assembly Distr.: General 31 January 2002 Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 95 (d) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Second Committee (A/56/558/Add.4)] 56/184. Enhancing international cooperation towards a durable solution to the external debt problems of developing countries The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 51/164 of 16 December 1996, 52/185 of 18 December 1997, 53/175 of 15 December 1998, 54/202 of 22 December 1999 and 55/184 of 20 December 2000 on enhancing international cooperation towards a durable solution to the external debt problems of developing countries, 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the external debt and debt-servicing problems of developing countries, including those resulting from global financial instability; 1 2. Takes note also of the deliberations of the Preparatory Committee for the International Conference on Financing for Development, 2 which is to be held at Monterrey, Mexico, from 18 to 22 March 2002; 3. Stresses the importance of the continued substantive consideration of the sub-item on external debt crisis and development; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session on the external debt crisis and development, bearing in mind, inter alia, the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development; 5. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session, under the item entitled “Macroeconomic policy questions”, the sub-item entitled “External debt crisis and development”. 90th plenary meeting 21 December 2001 _______________ 1 A/56/262. See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 28 (A/55/28), part two; ibid., Supplement No. 28A (A/55/28/Add.1); ibid., Supplement No. 28B and corrigendum (A/55/28/Add.2 and Corr.1); and ibid., Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 28 and corrigendum (A/56/28 and Corr.1). 2 01 49189