Endorses the objectives set forth by the Advisory Committee on the Application of Science and Technolog-v to Development in its third report84 with a view to:
a
Assisting in the building of an adequate structure of institutions in the developing countries;
( b I Improving the arrangements for the transfer and adaptation of knowledge and technology already available in the more developed countries;
( c) Encouraging closer co-operation between scientists and research organizations in developed and developing countries;
2
RecommendsStates Members of the United Nations and members of the specialized agencies and of the International Atomic Energy Agency to endeavour to take full account, particularly in their bilateral aid programmes, of the aid requirements of the developing countries in the field of science and technology;
3
Invitesthe United Nations Development Programme, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and related institutions, in the light of the objectives of the world plan of action for the application of science and technology to development, to consider making available additional resources to meet requests from the de\ieloping countries for projects directed towards the application of science and technologv to development ;
4
Requeststhe United Nations and related international organizations to assist the Advisory Committee, within the limits of their competence, in preparing guidelines for the application of science and technology to development;
5
Requeststhe Advisory Committee and the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination to examine the detailed statements to be submitted on 1 January 1968,
84 fbid., Forty-first Session, Supplement No. 12 (E/4178 and Corr.I).
SI in conformity with Economic and Social Council resolution 1155 (XLI), by the United Nations and related international organizations with regard to their current or future contribution to the achievement of the objectives set forth by the Advisory Committee and to prepare detailed proposals in that regard for the Council;
6
Requeststhe Advisory Committee, in continuing its work of establishing a world plan of action :
a
To consider carefully the regional aspects of such a plan and to seek, for that purpose, the co-operation of the regional economic commissions and the Economic and Social Office in Beirut ;
b
To remain aware of the need to ensure close coordination between its work in that field and the plans which are to be prepared for the next United Nations development decade ;
( c) To review periodically the list of urgent problems for the solution of which it has recommended the launching of a concerted offensive, so that efforts and available resources will be concentrated to the greatest possible extent on problems having high priority;
( d·) To report to the General Assembly not later than at its twenty-fourth session, through the Economic and Social Council, on the progress achieved in this field;
7
Expresses the hope that the Advisory Committee will receive the broadest possible co-operation, whenever it expresses the desire therefor, from scientific and technical institutions interested in its work.
15 December 1967.
iParagraph content is machine-extracted from UN documents. For authoritative content, please refer to the official UN document.
