Enhancing International Cooperation Towards a Durable Solution to the External Debt Problems of Developing Countries

A/RES/56/184View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 95d External debt crisis and development, published in 2002.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2002

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2002	A/57/253	External debt crisis and development report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/56/184

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Debt Servicing Developing Countries External Debt Financial Crisis Macroeconomics Report Preparation

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

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;²

²A/56/262.

Takes note also of the deliberations of the Preparatory Committee for the International Conference on Financing for Development,³ which is to be held at Monterrey, Mexico, from 18 to 22 March 2002;

³See 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).

Stresses the importance of the continued substantive consideration of the sub-item on external debt crisis and development;

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;

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”.

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