Third Session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1971.

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Takes note of the report of the Trade and Development Board on its activities between 24 September 1969 and 13 October 1970;61

Decides that the third session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development shall be convened in April/May 1972;

Notes that the Trade and Development Board will in due course make its final recommendation to the General Assembly concerning the location of the third session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development;

Invites the Trade and Development Board to draw the attention of the United Nations Conference 80 Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-third Session, Supplement No. 14 (A/7214), p. 93.

81 Jbid., Twenty-fifth S; ssion, Supplement No. 15 (A/8015/ Rev.I and Rev. l/Corr, 1) Reaolution1 adopted on the report■ of the Second Committee on Trade and Development at its third session, in pursuing the functions falling within its competence and its role in the implementation of the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade in a dynamic context, to the importance of:

Reviewing the progress made in and seeking

further implementation of the policy measures as agreed upon within the context of the International Development Strategy;

( b) Reaching agreement in more specific terms on issues which have not been fully resolved in the International Development Strategy and which have an important bearing on its implementation;

( c) Seeking new areas of agreement and widenina existing ones;

Evolving new concepts and seeking agreement on additional measures;

Recommends that the institutional machinery of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development should be fully oriented towards the implementation of the relevant provisions of the International Development Strategy, particularly for enabling those countries which are having difficulty in accepting certain specific provisions in the policy measures of the Strategy to make a fuller and more effective contribution to the achievement of the goals and objectives of the Second United Nations Development Decade;

Requests the Trade and Development Board to give consideration, in the light of paragraph S above and in accordance with General Assembly resolution 1995 (XIX) and Trade and Development Board decision 45 (VII), to such reforms of the fundamental provisions of that resolution as to promote further evolution in the institutional arrangements of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, in its continuing machinery and in its methods of work, designed to increase its effectiveness and to put forward concrete suggestions for its improvement, with a view to enabling the Conference to make specific recommendations for consideration by the General Assembly.

15 December 1970.

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