Report of the Special International Conference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1972.

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14 topics

Agenda Establishment Experts Generalized System of Preferences Geographical Distribution Industrial Development Industrial Projects Least Developed Countries Programme Budgeting Project Appraisal Recruitment Report Preparation Work Programme Workforce

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14 operative paragraphs

Commends the guidelines contained in section I of the resolution as an adequate framework for drafting the long-range strategy of the activities of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization;

36 ID/SCU/4 and Corr.1-3; transmitted to the members of the General Assembly by a note of the Secretary-General under the symbol A/8341 and Corr.1. A revised version of the report (ID/SCU/4/Rev.1) was subsequently issued under the symbol A/8341/Rev.1.

37 See E/ AC.6/SR.538 and 539 .

.as Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/8416 and Corr.1).

so A/8341 and Corr. I, para. 46, resolution ID/SCU /Res, 1.

40 A/8341/Corr.1.

Requests the Secretary-General to take immediate action to appoint a small group of high-level experts from the various geographical groups, chosen in consultation with the,ir respective Governments, to carry out the important task of formulating, in accordance with the guidelines set out in section I of the above-mentioned resolution, bearing in mind the one referring to special consideration of the industrialization needs of the least developed among the developing countries, the long-range strategy for the activities of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and to submit their final report to the Industrial Development Board as soon as possible and, at any rate, in time for consideration at its seventh session;

Requests the Industrial Development Board to propose to the General Assembly, in due time, the necessary measures for convening another general conference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in 1974 or 1975, as appropriate, and to make recommendations for a provisional agenda,

keeping in mind the need to review the progress of industrialization during the Second United Nations Development Decade;

Recommends that the Industrial Development Board, at rits sixth session, should take action in accordance with section II, paragraph 9, of the resolution of consensus and set up as its subsidiary organ a permanent committee of the Board with the terms of reference established therein;

Considers it desirable that the United Nations Industrial Development Organization should have greater autonomy in administrative matters, including the recruitment of personnel and management of its publications programme;

Expresses its satisfaction at the initiative taken by the Economic and Social Council, in its resolution 1617 (LI) of 27 July 1971, to ensure that special attention should be given by the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, in accordance with the priorities assigned by the developing countries, to the requests for assistance made in the field of industrial development, in particular by the least developed among the developing countries, and including industrial technological development and industrial pilot projects;

Urges the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme to plan the level of its programme reserve in such a way that a minimum of $2 million may be retained annually for financing the Special Industrial Services programme, and that additional resources be provided in the light of future requirements based on demonstrated needs;

Requests the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme to give, among the global projects mentioned in paragraphs 21 to 26 of the consensus adopted on 30 June 1970 by the Governing Council of the Programme at its tenth session,41 particular attention to projects within the sphere of industrial technological development;

Invites the Executive Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to extend full co-operation to regional industrial conferences held at the ministerial or other levels under the auspices of the regional economic commissions and the United Nations Economic and Social Office at Beirut in order to 41 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Fortyninth Session, Supplement No. 6A (E/4884/Rev.1), chap. V, annex.

facilitate greater regional co-ordination of industrial development policies;

Decides to set up an Ad Hoe Committee on Co-operation between the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization composed of those Member States whose representatives are serving as officers of the Governing Council of the Programme and the Industrial Development Board42 to examine in detail, in consultation with the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and the Executive Director of the United Nations Industrial Developme1:1t Organization, all aspects of co-operation between the two organizations, especially those related to the formulation, appraisal and approval of industrial projects, and to submit a report thereon to the General Assembly at its twenty-seventh session, through the Economic and Social Council, together with the comments of the Governing Council of the Programme and those of the Industrial Development Board;

Requests the Secretary-General to convene the Ad Hoe Committee at an early date in New York and to extend to it all the necessary facilities and assistance;

Calls upon the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, in co-operation with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and with the regional economic commissions and the United Nations Economic and Social Office at Beirut, to assist the developing countries, especially the least developed among them, to take full advantage of the benefits of the generalized system of preferences for manufactures and semi-manufactures;

Invites the Executive Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to review the organization and the structure of its secretariat, with a view to adapting it to the changing needs of the work programme in the light of the International Development Strategy and, in particular, to the needs for effective implementation of the operational activities of the organization, and to submit appropriate reports and proposals thereon to the Industrial Development Board;

Recommends that, as part of the preparatory work for the next general conference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the Industrial Development Board should keep under consideration the proposals submitted to the Special International Conference on such changes and improvements as might be necessary, pursuant to paragraph 37 of General Assembly resolution 2152 (XXI), in order to meet fully the growing needs in the field of industrial development.

16 December 1971.

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