A/RES/56/224. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2001

• Resolution Number: A/RES/56/224
• Year: 2001
• Session: 56th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/56/224

General Assembly Distr.: General

26 February 2002

Fifty-sixth session

Agenda item 44

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

[without reference to a Main Committee (A/56/L.45/Rev.1 and Add.1)]

56/224. The situation in Central America: procedures for the

establishment of a firm and lasting peace and progress in

fashioning a region of peace, freedom, democracy and

development

The General Assembly

,

Considering

the relevant resolutions of the Security Council, particularly

resolution 637 (1989) of 27 July 1989, and its own resolutions, particularly

resolution 43/24 of 15 November 1988, in which it requests the Secretary-General to

continue his good offices and to afford the fullest possible support to the Central

American Governments in their efforts to achieve the objectives of peace,

reconciliation, democracy, development and justice established in the agreement on

“Procedures for the establishment of a firm and lasting peace in Central America” of

7 August 1987,

1

Reaffirming

its resolutions in which it recognizes and stresses the importance

of international economic, financial and technical cooperation and assistance, both

bilateral and multilateral, aimed at promoting economic and social development in

the region with a view to furthering and supplementing the efforts of the Central

American peoples and Governments to achieve peace and democratization,

particularly resolution 52/169 G of 16 December 1997, concerning international

assistance to and cooperation with the Alliance for the Sustainable Development of

Central America, and the relevant resolutions concerning emergency assistance to

the Central American countries, as a consequence of the destruction caused by

natural disasters,

Emphasizing

the importance of the development of the Central American

Integration System, which has as its main objective the promotion of the integration

process, the Alliance for the Sustainable Development of Central America as the

integrated programme for national and regional development, which contains the

commitments and priorities of the countries of the area for the promotion of

sustainable development, the establishment of the subsystem and of the regional

social policy, the model of democratic Central American security, and the

implementation of other agreements adopted at the presidential summit meetings,

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1 A/42/521-S/19085, annex.