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National Experience in Achieving Far-Reaching Social and Economic Changes for the Purpose of Social Progress

A/RES/31/38No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1977.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 1975–1988
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/42/50
  • 1988A/RES/42/50National experience in achieving far-reaching social and economic changes for the purpose of social progressLatestCompare with previous version
  • 1986A/RES/40/23National experience in achieving far-reaching social and economic changes for the purpose of social progressCompare with previous version
  • 1984A/RES/38/25National experience in achieving far-reaching social and economic changes for the purpose of social progressCompare with previous version
  • 1981A/RES/36/19National experience in achieving far-reaching social and economic changes for the purpose of social progressCompare with previous version
  • 1977A/RES/31/38National experience in achieving far-reaching social and economic changes for the purpose of social progressCompare with previous version

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 topics
Economic DevelopmentSocial Change

What does this mandate say?

7 operative paragraphs
1
Reaffirms the inalienable right of all nations to pursue freely their econo_mic and social ?ev.elopment and to exercise full sovereignty over all their nches and natural resources;
2
Considers that the elimination of all forms of subjugation and dependence such as aggression, foreign occupation, colonialism, apartheid, racism and ~11. forms of racial discrimination constitutes a prereqmsite for social and economic advancement;
3
Emphasizes that the carrying out of internal ~asic socio-economic changes designed to safeguard national independence and to ensure speedy improvement of the well-being of the population is of great importance for the achievement of social and economic progress;
4
Re-emphasizes the advisability of holding, within the programm~ of advi_sory services, regula~ interregional and reg10nal s_emmars to study the natlon_al e~- perience of developmg and developed countries m carrying out far-reaching social and economic changes for the purpose of social progress;
5
Calls upon the Commission for Social Development, the Economic and Social Council and the regio~al commissions to pay special attention, on a regular basis, to studies and analyses of national experience in carrying out far-reaching socio-economic changes for the purpose of social progress;
6
Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-third session, through the Commission for Social Development and/or the Economic and Social Council, a comprehensive report prepared on the basis of information received from Governments on national experience in carrying out far-reaching changes for the purpose of social progress;
7
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-third session the item entitled "National experience in achieving far-reaching social and economic changes for the purpose of social progress".
16 A/10166.

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