The report of the Committee is before the Council ( E/2000/__ ) . Functional commissions should continue to give particular attention to the situation of African countries and the least developed countries in their consideration of relevant issues , especially in view of the upcoming Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries in 2001 and the review of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s ( UN-NADAF ) in 2002 ( para . 21 )