B. Promotion of sustained economic growth and sustainable development in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and recent United Nations conferences
Specific actions related to the particular needs and problems of landlocked developing countries: outcome of the International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and Donor Countries and International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit Transport Cooperation
At its fifty-seventh session, in 2002, the General Assembly decided that the International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and Donor Countries and International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit Transport Cooperation should be convened in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on 28 and 29 August 2003 (resolution 57/242). The Conference adopted the Almaty Declaration and the Almaty Programme of Action: Addressing the Special Needs of Landlocked Developing Countries within a New Global Framework for Transit Transport Cooperation for Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries.
At its fifty-eighth session, the General Assembly endorsed the Almaty Declaration and the Almaty Programme of Action (resolution 58/201).
The General Assembly continued its consideration of the question at its fifty-ninth to sixty-first sessions (resolutions 59/245, 60/208 and 61/212).
At its sixty-second session, the General Assembly decided to hold two days of high-level plenary meetings (devoted to the midterm review of the Almaty Programme of Action during its sixty-third session, on 2 and 3 October 2008; and requested the Secretary-General to submit to the Assembly at its sixty-third session a report on the progress made, lessons learned and constraints encountered in the implementation of the Almaty Programme of Action, including recommendations, with a view to the preparation for the midterm review meeting and the way forward (resolution 62/204).
Document:
- Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the Almaty Programme of Action: Addressing the Special Needs of Landlocked Developing Countries within a New Global Framework for Transit Transport Cooperation for Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries (resolution 62/204), A/63/165
References for the sixty-second session (agenda item 57 (b))
- Report of the Secretary-General on the status of preparations for the midterm review of the implementation of the Almaty Programme of Action: Addressing the Special Needs of Landlocked Developing Countries within a New Global Framework for Transit Transport Cooperation for Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries (A/62/226)
- Summary records A/C.2/62/SR.2 - 6, 22, 23, 26 and 31
- Report of the Second Committee A/62/422/Add.2
- Plenary meeting A/62/PV.78
- Resolution 62/204
Related links :
- High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development (23-24 October 2007)
- UN Financing for Development
- UN Economic and Social Affairs
Source: A/63/100
