Specific Action in Favour of Land-Locked Developing Countries

Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the land-locked countries and the specialized agencies, to find ways and means of improving the economic situation of the landlocked developing countries through the urgent implementation of resolutions 63 (Ill) and 98 (IV) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development;

Calls upon Member States and the entire international community to give special attention to the trade requirements of the land-locked developing countries, including the possible provision of preferential treatment of their goods;

Invites the appropriate organs of the United Nations system, as well as the regional development banks, to pay special attention to the particular problems of the land-locked developing countries in their assistance to national, subregional and regional infrastructural projects related to transit;

Urges the developed countries and all others in a position to do so to provide technical and/ or financial assistance in the form of grants or in the form of concessional loans on appropriate terms to the land-locked developing countries for the construction, improvement and maintenance of their transit roads;

Calls upon the Governments of developed and developing countries to invite and urge shipowners, members of liner conferences and insurance companies, as far as is feasible, to establish freight rates and premiums for the land-locked developing countries, which will encourage and assist the expansion of trade of these countries, and to develop promotional rates for nontraditional exports of these countries, which will facilitate the opening up of new markets and the development of new trade flows;

Invites all Member States and the competent international organizations to assist the land-locked developing countries in facilitating the exercise of their right of free access to and from the sea.