United Nations Conference on Technical Co-Operation Among Developing Countries

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 72Technical cooperation among developing countries, published in 1978.

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3 versions · 1977–1979

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1977A/RES/31/179United Nations Conference on Technical Co-operation among Developing Countries

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Conferences Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries

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Endorses the recommendations of the Working Group on Technical Co-operation among Developing Countries, 148 as modified by the relevant decisions on techncial co-operation among developing countries

adopted at the eighteenth, 145 twenty-third146 and twentyfourth 147 sessions of the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme;

Requests the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and the executive heads of participating and executing agencies and regional commissions to take all necessary measures, in the light of paragraph 1 above, for the speedy implementation of all the recommendations contained in the report of the Working Group on Technical Co-operation among Developing Countries as modified by the relevant decisions of the Governing Council;

Also requests the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and the executive heads of participating and executing agencies and regional commissions to assist the developing countries, at their request, in identifying, designing and executing development projects so as to promote technical cooperation among developing countries, particularly the least developed among them;

Further requests the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and the executive heads of participating and executing agencies and regional commissions, in conformity with the abovementioned decisions of the Governing Council, to formulate for approval, as appropriate, by the intergovernmental bodies concerned, suitable changes in their rules, regulations, procedures and practices for recruiting experts and consultants, placing fellows, awarding subcontracts and procuring equipment and supplies in order to utilize fully the capacity of and ?evelop _the potential existing in developing countries, Irrespective of the economy and social system of the individual developing country;

Further requests the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme to develop further,

145 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 2A (E/5543/Rev.l)'.

146 Ibid., Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 3 (E/5940).

147 Ibid., Supplement No. 3A (E/6013/Rev.1). General Assembly-Thirty-second Ses.,ion

according to its increasing needs, technical co-operation among developing countries in connexion with the Information Referral System, to update rciularly and revise its information, to cover new areas and to establish appropriate linkages with the information sources of other organizations in the United Nations system, as well as those of developing countries;

Further requests the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and the executive heads of participating and executing agencies and regional commissions to continue to report regularly on the implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the Working Group on Technical Co-operation among Developing Countries as modified by the above-mentioned decisions of the Governing Council, as well as on other activities undertaken by them for technical co-operation among developing countries, to the General Assembly, through the Governing Council and the Economic and Social Council, and, in relation to the United Nations Conference on Technical Co-operation among Developing Countries, to the Preparatory Committee for the Conference at its third session.

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United Nations Conference on Technical Co-operation among Developing Countries

Decides to convene the United Nations Conference on Technical Co-operation among Developing Countries at Buenos Aires from 30 August to 12 September 1978;

Approves the programme of activities envisaged in the recommendations on the budget for the Conference to be financed under the regular budget of the United Nations as submitted in the report of the Secretary-General of the Conference;159 3.

Calls upon developing countries to continue to participate actively in the preparations for the Conference and, to this end, to intensify the activities of the Governments' focal points, to establish committees for national preparations or other bodies, as appropriate, and to organize the participation of professional, technical, voluntary and other organizations in all the stages of the preparatory process and the Conference;

Calls upon developed countries to continue to participate actively in the preparations for the Conference, particularly by identifying such measures in their development aid and co-operation as would promote and strengthen programmes and projects for technical co-operation among developing countries;

Urges all countries and relevant organizations of the United Nations system to take the necessary measures to strengthen their public information programmes relating to the Conference with a view to creating an awareness of the importance of technical co-operation among developing countries;

Requests the Secretary-General of the Conference to transmit the present resolution to the Governments of Member States, with the request that they provide information to the Preparatory Committee for the Conference before its third session on the meas-

153 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 2A (E/5846/Rev. l ).

154 /bid., Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 3 (E/5940).

11111 Ibid., Supplement No. 3A (E/6013/Rev.1).

156 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-second Session, Supplement No. 42 (A/32/ 42 and Corr. I and 2).

157 DP /SR.592 and corrigendum.

111s See A/CONF.79/PC/ 10 and Corr. I.

159 A/CONF.79/PC/8 and Add.I.

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ures adopted to strengthen or implement the recommendations contained in paragraphs 3 to 5 above;

Requests the participating and executing agencies, including the regional commissions. to continue to give priority to their participation in the preparations for the Conference and to use their wide experience of technical co-operation in their contributions within the inter-agency task force for the Conference toward~ the preparation of the relevant documentation and of the plan of action and to ensure that their pubiic information material includes items on the objectives and current state of preparations for the Conference;

Requests all organizations of the United Nations system actively to assist developing countries and the representatives invited to the Conference referred to in paragraph 3 ( b) and ( c) of its resolution 31 /179 in their preparations for the Conference.

107th plenary meetinR

19 December 1977

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Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on progress in the implementation of specific action in

160 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Fourth Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.76.11.D.10 and corrigendum), part one, sect. A.

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