A/RES/61/1 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 27 September 2006 Sixty-first session Agenda item 56 (a) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 September 2006 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/61/L.2)] 61/1. Declaration of the high-level meeting of the sixty-first session of the General Assembly on the midterm comprehensive global review of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010 The General Assembly, Having considered the report of the preparatory meeting of experts on the midterm comprehensive global review of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010, 1 held in New York from 5 to 7 September 2006, Noting with appreciation the contribution made by the least developed countries and their development partners, the organizations of the United Nations system and other intergovernmental organizations, as well as non-governmental organizations, to the process of the midterm review of the Programme of Action, 2 Adopts the following Declaration: Declaration of the high-level meeting of the sixty-first session of the General Assembly on the midterm comprehensive global review of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010 We, Heads of State and Government and heads of delegations participating in the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the midterm comprehensive global review of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010,2 held on 18 and 19 September 2006: 1. Recommit ourselves to meeting the special needs of the least developed countries by making progress towards the goals of poverty eradication, peace and development through the improvement of the quality of lives of people in the least _______________ 1 2 06-49449 A/61/323. A/CONF.191/13, chap. II.