Activities of the United Nations in the Field of Industrial Development

A/RES/1712(XVI)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1962.

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3 versions · 1961–1963

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/1821(XVII)

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1963	A/RES/1821(XVII)	Activities of the United Nations in the field of industrial development	562	16%Compare
1962	A/RES/1712(XVI)	Activities of the United Nations in the field of industrial development	857	16%Compare
1961	A/RES/1525(XV)	Activities of the United Nations in the field of industrial development	432	–

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3 subjects

Financing Industrial Development Least Developed Countries

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6 operative paragraphs

Commends the Committee for Industrial Development for the constructive report on its first session ;18 2.

Requests the Economic and Social Council, at its resumed thirty-second session, and the Committee for Industrial Development :

To exert every effort with a view to enabling the Industrial Development Centre to begin its work without delay, one of its objectives being to set up as soon as possible working contacts, in co-operation with the regional economic commissions, with national bodies as well as with industrial and research organizations in charge of, or concerned with, industrial problems in States members of the United Nations system, regardless of their stage of development;

( b) To ensure that the Industrial Development Centre should co-ordinate its activities with the activities of the regional economic commissions, the specialized agencies and the International Atomic Energy Ag~ncy in the industrial field, in order to avoid duplicat10n of work and not to impede existing activities;

( c) To devote particular attention to the question of financing industrial development, paying special consideration to the utilization of internal resources for the formation of capital, while taking into account the past and present experience of the highly industrialized and the developing countries;

( d) To take into account, with the assistance of the United Natio 1s institutions concerned, the social implications of the industrialization process;

lB Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Thirty-first Session, Supplement No. 2 (E/3476/Rev.1).

Requests the Secretary-General, the Executive Chairman of the Technical Assistance Board, the Managing Director of the Special Fund and the executive heads of the specialized agencies and of the International Atomic Energy Agency. to inform the Committee for Industrial Development on the assistance rendered by these bodies to the economically less developed countries in t~e field of industrial development;

Requests the Committee for Industrial Development to study, in the light of information submitted pursuant to paragraph 3 above, the flow of assistance

taking place at the present time under these programmes, and to submit to the Economic and Social Council recommendations aimed at expanding these activities for the benefit of these countries' industrialization;

Requests the Economic and Social Council, at its resumed thirty-second session, to direct the Committee for Industrial Development to give further consideration to the expansion of United Nations activities in the field of industrial development, in particular to the advisability of establishing a specialized agency or any other appropriate body for industrial development, and to prepare a special report on this question, including, if need be, recommendations regarding the structure and scope of such an organization;

Further requests the Committee for Industrial Development to submit its repor.t to the Economic and Social Council at its thirty-fourth session, and asks the Council to transmit that report, with its comrnen~s, to the General Assembly at its seventeenth session.

19 December 1961.

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