Implementing the Smooth Transition Strategy for Countries Graduating From the List of Least Developed Countries

A/RES/65/286View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda items 23Groups of countries in special situations, 23a4th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries and 23bSpecific 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, published in 2010.

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Cabo Verde Cooperation Between Organizations Development Assistance Graduation Least Developed Countries Maldives

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Reiterates the importance of ensuring that the graduation of a country from least developed country status does not cause disruption in the development progress that country has achieved;

Urges graduating countries and all bilateral and multilateral development and trading partners to pursue or intensify their efforts, consistent with World Trade Organization rules, to contribute to the full implementation of resolution 59/209, with a view to ensuring the smooth transition of graduating least developed countries;

Looks forward, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 65/171 of 20 December 2010, to the report of the Secretary-General to the Assembly at its sixty-seventh session on the support measures effectively provided by development and trading partners for the countries that have graduated or will be graduating from least developed country status and on possible ways to better ensure their smooth transition;

Decides that the long-standing benefit of travel-related support that has been made available by the United Nations to the least developed countries will be extended, if requested, within existing resources, to Cape Verde and Maldives for a period appropriate to the development situation of the country and for a maximum of three years, beginning immediately after the adoption of the present resolution, and that the same benefit will be granted, also if requested, within existing resources, and for a period appropriate to the development situation of the country and for a maximum of three years, to any other country that graduates from least developed country status;

Urges the Committee for Development Policy, with assistance and support from other relevant entities, to continue its monitoring of the development progress of graduated countries as a complement to its triennial review of the list of least developed countries, to pay particular attention to the effectiveness of smooth transition for graduated countries, and to report thereon to the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session.

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