68/18 GA
Graduation of countries from the least developed country category
68
Session
| Draft symbol | A/68/L.20 |
|---|---|
| Adopted symbol | 68/18 |
| Sponsors (1) | |
| UN Document | 68/18 ↗ |
Vote Consensus — A/68/PV.59
Speeches following this vote (6)
The President
I now call on those representatives who wish to make statements concerning the resolution just adopted.
Mr. Ndong Mba
From the approval in 1990 of the Paris Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s through to the adoption in 2001 of the Brussels Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010, the objectives established at those conferences to improve the social and economic situation of the least developed countries (LDCs) have not yet been achieved.
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Mr. Houde
The adoption today, 4 December 2013, of resolution 68/18, on the graduation of Equatorial Guinea and Vanuatu, is clearly a symbolic act, but it also has major implications for the group of 49 least developed countries (LDCs) that are Members of the United Nations. Indeed, the decision that we have just taken is the outcome and crowning achievement of a long process of negotiations involving sever…
The President
The General Assembly has thus concluded this stage of its consideration of agenda item 9.
Reports of the Fifth Committee
The President
The General Assembly will now consider the reports of the Fifth Committee on agenda items 131, 132, 135 and 142.
If there is no proposal under rule 66 of the rules of procedure, I shall take it that the General Assembly decides not to discuss the reports of the Fifth Committee that are before it today.
The President
Statements will therefore be limited to explanations of vote. The positions of delegations regarding the recommendations of the Fifth Committee have been made clear in the Committee and are reflected in the relevant official records.
May I remind members that under paragraph 7 of decision 34/401, the General Assembly agreed that
“When the same draft resolution is considered in a Main Committee …
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