Industrial Redeployment in Favour of Developing Countries

A/RES/31/163View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 57 United Nations Industrial Development Organization, published in 1977.

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Industrial Development Industrial Redeployment Relocation of Industry

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

Urges developed countries to implement fully 1. section IV, paragraph 2, of resolution 3362 (S-VII);

Requests the Executive Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in this context, in collaboration with the pertinent international organizations of the United Nations system and

taking into account national and international sources, to prepare studies which would include:

Recommendations concerning an interrelated set of policies, taking into account environmental and labour market conditions and including financial and trade measures for promoting redeployment, as well as the economic structure and the economic, social and security objectives of the developed countries and the principle of permanent sovereignty of States over their natural resources;

( b) The identification of specific industries and sectors of industries which would be amenable to accelerated redeployment to developing countries in the context of section IV, paragraph 2, of resolution 3362 (S-VII);

( c) Submission to the Industrial Development Board of the results of the above studies for its review and recommendations for appropriate action;

Requests the Industrial Development Board to include in its agenda as a regular item the redeployment of industries from developed to developing countries;

Further requests the Executive Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-third session, through the Industrial Development Board, a report on the implementation of the present resolution.

76 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-first 79 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 77 Ibid., part two, paras. 20-22.

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