I would also like to congratulate Ambassador Hisashi Owada of Japan , Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for the Mid-term Review of the Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s , and his Bureau for the excellent report before this Assembly . It must be pointed out from the outset that while the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s ( UN-NADAF ) was a laudable initiative , it lacked a clear operational framework both within the United Nations system itself and at the country level .