Economic Cooperation Among Developing Countries

A/RES/3177(XXVIII)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1974.

What other versions does this mandate have?

7 versions · 1974–1980

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/34/202

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1980	A/RES/34/202	Economic co-operation among developing countries	229	16%Compare
1979	A/RES/33/195	Economic co-operation among developing countries	976	13%Compare
1978	A/RES/32/180	Economic cooperation among developing countries	228	90%Compare
1977	A/RES/31/119	Economic cooperation among developing countries	219	12%Compare
1976	A/RES/3442(XXX)	Economic cooperation among developing countries	710	20%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

18 subjects

Commodities Communications Credit Economic Cooperation Among Developing Countries Economic Development Exports Finance Industrial Development Information Exchange International Trade Markets Monetary Systems Permanent Sovereignty Preferential Agreements Science and Technology Social Development Technical Cooperation Transport Infrastructure

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16 operative paragraphs

Considers that the developing countries, with a view to expanding co-operation at the regional, subregional and interregional levels, should take further and vigorous steps, inter alia:

To promote the further harmonization of their policies in the different fields of their mutual cooperation;

( b) To promote ,and expand regional, subregional and interregional trade by means of preferential trade arrangements;

( c) To promote, establish or strengthen economic integration at the regional and subregional levels;

To support the e3tablishment and/or improvement of appropriate machinery to defend the prices of their exportable commodities and to improve access to and to stabilize markets for tliem;

To protect their inalienable right to permanent sovereignty over their natural resources;

To strengthen, expand or establish transport links and other communications infrastructure among themselves;

To devise and pursue effective means for the

further promotion of industri'al co-operation and development;

To promote and establish effective instruments of close co-operation in the fields of finance, credit relations and monetary issues;

To organize means and measures to share and exchange experience in, and to promote the development and the application of science and technology to, processes of economic and social development;

To support their schemes for economic cooperation with measures for the exchange of in!ormation and ideas. especially through increased contact between their mass media;

Considers further that, as economic co-operation among developing countries provides a suitable framework in which to secure and advance the interests of the least developed, land-locked and island developing countries, schemes of co-operation should give special attention to the problems of such countries;

Invites the developed countries to maintain and expand their support for economic co-operation among developing countries, as pledged in paragraph 40 of the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade;

Requests the specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system:

To intensify and co-ordinate their programmes so as to provide effective financial and technical support for the further expansion of the mutual co-operation of developing countries along the lines indicated in paragraph 1 above;

( b) To initiate new projects and expand existing ones for technical co-operation and the exchange of experience among developing countries;

To promote and expand arrangements for interagency co-operation at the interregional level, especially among the regional economic commissions, in the furtherance of schemes for economic co-operation among developing countries;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its twenty-ninth session on the implementation of paragraph 4 above;

Requests the Committee for Development Planning to give high priority to the study and evaluation of economic co-operation among developing countries, including in particular scientific and technical cooperation, and to report on this question to the Committee on Review and Appraisal for its consideration at the mid-term review of the International Development Strategy.

While the primary responsibility for implementing the aims and policy measures of the International Development Strategy rests upon the political determination of individual Governments in a spirit of partnership and common interests, the United Nations system and other international organizations in which these Governments are represented can and should make an important contribution of their own. Thus, all Governments are urged to adapt their development policies, not only individually but also jointly through these organizations, to the implementation of the Strategy in a consistent and forward-looking manner. The organizations of the United Nations system, as the collective instruments of the world community, are urged in the light of the first over-all review and appraisal, to intensify and further harmonize their activities relating to the implementation of the Strategy in their areas of competence, so as to ensure that the efforts of the system will produce maximum results. In this context, they should invigorate the search for innovative and interdisciplinary approaches, aiming at the removal of the causes of underdevelopment, at the strengthening of the economic and social structures and the cadres of trained personnel of developing countries for their own development, and at assisting developing countries in their efforts towards the mobilization and utilization of their natural resources. Concerned international organizations outside the United Nations system are also invited to gear their activities to assisting in the implementation of the International Development Strategy.

s1 Resolution 2626 (XXV ).

82 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Third S,·,·siori, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No.: E.73.II.D.4), annex VIII.F.

84 A/9330 and Corr.I, p. 85.

bid., annex I.A.

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