Calls upo11 the Governments of the States members of the International :'.\Ionetary Fund to take the necessary steps for the early ratification and activation of the special drawing rights facility, which is intended to improve the functioning of the world economy, including. inter alia, the pro\'ision of additional resources to developing countries.
1751st plenar>' mectin,(f.
20 Dccrn,ber 1968.
47 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Co1mcil, Forty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 5 (E/4467), para. 51.
48 See Proceedings of the United Nations C onfcrcnce on Trade and Development, Second Session, vol. I and Corr.l and Add.1, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No.: E.68.II.D.14), p. 43.
40 International Monetary Fund, Annual Report, 1968 (Washington, D.C.); transmitted by a note of the Secretary-General (E/4596).