回顾联合国大会第五十五届会议期间于 2000 年 9 月 29 日通过的《最不发达国家部长宣言》和 2001 年 5 月 13 日在布鲁塞尔举行的第三次联合国最不发达国家问题会议召开前夕发表的《部长宣言》，宣布：
Recalling the Ministerial Declaration of the Least Developed Countries adopted on 29 September 2000 during the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations as well as the Ministerial Declaration made on the eve of the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Brussels on 13 May 2001, declare that: