Decides to postpone its consideration of subparagraph (a) of Economic and Social Council decision 1997/223, in consideration of the views and recommendations to be submitted by the Committee for Development Planning to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session, through the Economic and Social Council, in accordance with paragraphs 9 and 10 of resolution 51/183, on the usefulness of the vulnerability index as a criterion for the designation of least developed countries and without prejudice to the full development and examination of the vulnerability index and its potential application in assessing the graduation of Vanuatu, a small island developing State, from the list of least developed countries, and to take a decision accordingly.
