A/RES/59/238 United Nations Distr.: General 24 February 2005 General Assembly Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 85 (h) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2004 [on the report of the Second Committee (A/59/483/Add.8)] 59/238. Rendering assistance to poor mountain countries to overcome obstacles in socio-economic and ecological areas The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 53/24 of 10 November 1998, by which it proclaimed 2002 the International Year of Mountains, Recalling also its resolutions 55/189 of 20 December 2000, 57/245 of 20 December 2002 and 58/216 of 23 December 2003, Recalling further the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted on 8 September 2000, 1 Recalling chapter 13 of Agenda 21 2 and all relevant paragraphs of the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”), 3 in particular paragraph 42 thereof, as the overall policy frameworks for sustainable development in mountain regions, Decides to consider at its sixtieth session, under the item entitled “Sustainable development”, a sub-item entitled “Rendering assistance to poor mountain countries to overcome obstacles in socio-economic and ecological areas”, bearing in mind its resolution 58/216. 75th plenary meeting 22 December 2004 _______________ 1 See resolution 55/2. Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3–14 June 1992 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigenda), vol. I: Resolutions adopted by the Conference, resolution 1, annex II. 3 Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August–4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I, resolution 2, annex. 2 04-49054