External debt crisis and development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2005
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SymbolA/RES/60/187
TitleExternal debt crisis and development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
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Summary
Emphasizes the special importance of a timely, effective, comprehensive and durable solution to the debt problems of developing countries; welcomes the Gleneagles proposal by the Group of Eight, as endorsed by the Bretton Woods institutions at their 2005 annual meetings, to cancel 100 per cent of the debt owed by heavily indebted poor countries to the International Monetary Fund; calls upon creditor countries to continue to ensure that a tailored response to debt restructuring is granted only in a case of imminent default and is not considered by debtor countries as an alternative to more expensive sources of finance; requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its 61st session a report on the implementation of the present resolution and to include in that report a comprehensive and substantive analysis of the external debt and debt-servicing problems of developing countries.
Action note2005-12-22
Vote summary
Adopted without vote, 68th plenary meeting
DraftA/C.2/60/L.51
Committee reportA/60/486/Add.3
Meeting record
A/60/PV.68
Agenda information
A/60/251 50c External debt crisis and development. EXTERNAL DEBT
Date[New York] : UN, 9 Feb. 2006
Description
5 p.
Notes
Issued in GAOR, 60th sess., Suppl. no. 49.