The United Nations and other international organizations must respond to the peoples of Africa with an approach based on this new reality . We think it appropriate that the General Assembly has decided to set aside time during its fifty-seventh session for special meetings on a final review of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s ( UN-NADAF ) and , concurrently , to assess the implementation of the recommendations contained in the 1998 report of the Secretary-General on the causes of conflict and the promotion of development in Africa ( A/52/871 ) .