United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

A/RES/1785(XVII)No PDF available

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1963.

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8 versions · 1963–1982

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Appointment of Officials Export Diversification International Trade Members Participants Trade Financing Trade in Commodities

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17 operative paragraphs

Endorses the decision of the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 917 (XXXIV) to convene a United Nations Conference on Trade and Development;

Recommends the Economic and Social Council at its resumed thirty-fourth session :

To enlarge by twelve members the Preparatory Committee provided for by the Council in resolution 917 (XXXIV), with due regard to equitable geographical distribution and to an adequate representation of developing and major trading countries; General A .. embly-Seventeenth Seseion

( b) To convene the first session of the Committee by January 1963 so that the Committee will be able to submit an interim report to the Council at its thirtyfifth session ;

To convene the resumed session of the Committee immediately after the thirty-fifth session of the Council so that the Committee will be able to report to the Council at its thirty-sixth session;

Recommends further the Economic and Social Council to convene, after consideration of the preparatory work, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, as soon as possible after the thirtysixth session of the Council to be held in July 1963, but in no event later than early 1964, taking into account the view expressed by a large number of delegations tbat the Conference should be convened not later than September 1963 as well as the view of other delegations that the Conference should be held in early 1964;

Requests the Secretary-General:

To invite all States Members of the United Nations and members of the specialized agencies and of the International Atomic Energy Agency to take part in the Conference ;

( b) To appoint a secretary-general of the Conference ;

( c) To assist the Preparatory Committee by providing the necessary documentation in connexion with the Conference, on the lines indicated in Economic and Social Council resolution 917 (XXXIV) and in the discussions at the seventeenth session of the General Assembly;

Recommends the Economic and Social Council and the Preparatory Committee, in drawing up the draft agenda of the Conference referred to in paragraph 3 above, to take into consideration the following fundamental points :

The need for increasing the trade of

( i) Increasing trade between the developing and developed countries, irrespective of the differences in the foreign trade systems of the latter ;

Intensifying trade relations among the developing countries ;

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Diversifying the trade of developing countries ;

Financing the international trade of developing countries;

( b) Measures for ensuring stable, eqnitable and remunerative prices and the rising demand for exports of developing countries, including, inter alia:

( i) The stabilization of prices of primary commodities at equitable and remunerative levels;

The increase in consumption of products imported from primary-producing countries and of semi-manufactured and manufactured goods imported from developing countries ;

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International commodity agreements;

International compensatory financing;

( c) Measures leading to the gradual removal of tariff, non-tariff or other trade barriers by industrialized countries, whether individually or collectively, which

have an adverse effect on the exports of developing countries and on the expansion of international trade in general;

Methods and machinery to implement measures relating to the expansion of international trade, including:

( i) A reappraisal of the effectiveness of the existing international bodies dealing with international trade in meeting trade problems of developing countries, including a consideration of the develment of trade relations among countries with uneven levels of economic development and/or d_ifferent systems of economic organization and trade;

The advisability of eliminating overlapping and duplication by co-ordination or consolidation of the activities of such bodies, of creating conditions for expanded membership and of effecting such other organizational improvements and initiatives as may be needed, so as to maximize the beneficial results of trade for the promotion of economic development.

8 December 1962.

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