At its 96th plenary meeting, on 29 July 2021, the General Assembly, on the proposal of Bangladesh, Canada, Czechia, Ethiopia, Haiti, Malawi, Nepal, Paraguay, Qatar, Turkey and Uganda,56 recalling its resolutions 73/242 of 20 December 2018, 74/232 A of 19 December 2019, 74/232 B of 11 August 2020 and 75/227 of 21 December 2020, in which it had established the intergovernmental Preparatory Committee for the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries and had mandated the Preparatory Committee to hold an organizational session and a session in two parts (on 8 February 2021, and on 24, 25, 27 and 28 May and from 26 to 30 July 2021), and noting that