Programme of Action on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1974.

What subjects does this mandate have?

18 topics

Commodities Coordination Within UN System Development Finance Economic Development Economic Rights and Duties of States Establishment Financial Regulations Funds Industrialization International Monetary System Members Natural Resources Permanent Sovereignty Programmes of Action Raw Materials Technology Transfer Terms of Reference Transnational Corporations

What does this mandate say?

110 operative paragraphs

Adopts the following Programme of Action:

PROGRAMME OF ACTION ON THE ESTABLISH- _MENT OF A NEW INTERNATIONAL ECO- NOMIC ORDER CONTENTS

Introduction ............. .

5 I. Fundamental problems of raw materials and primary commodities as related to trade and development 5 JI. International mone1ary system and financing of the development of developing countries . III. Industrialization IV. Transfer of technology v. Regulation and control over the activities of transnational corporations 8 VI. Charter of Economic . Rights and Duties of States Promotion of co-operation among developing VII.

countries 9 VIII. Assistance in the exercise of permanent sovereignty of States over natural resources ....... .

9 IX. Strengthening the role of the United Nations system in the field of international economic cooperation 10 X. Special Programme

In view of the continuing severe economic imbalance in the relations between developed and developing countries, and in the context of the constant and continuing aggravation of the imbalance of the economies of the developing countries and the consequent need for the mitigation of their current economic difficulties, urgent and effective measures need to be taken by the international community to assist the developing countries, while devoting particular attention to the least developed, land-locked and island developing countries and those developh.g countries most seriously

s affected by economic crises and natural calamities leading to serious retardation of development processes.

With a view to ensuring the application of the Declaration on the Establishment of a New Intema-. tional Economic Order,6 it will be necessary to adopt and implement within a specified period a programme of action of unprecedented scope and to bring about maximum economic co-operation and understanding among all States, particularly between developed and developing countries, based on the principles of dignity and sovereign equality.

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l. Raw materials All efforts should be made:

To put an end to all forms of foreign occupation, racial discrimination, apartheid, colonial, neocolonial and alien domination and exploitation through the exercise of permanent sovereignty over natural resources;

To take measures for the recovery, exploitation, development, marketing and distribution of natural resources, particularly of developing countries, to serve their national inter~ts, to promote collective self-reliance among them and to strengthen mutually beneficial international economic co-operation with a view to bringing about the accelerated develQpment of developing countries;

To facilitate the functioning and to fu:r:ther the aims of producers' associations, including thc;ir joint marketing arrangements, orderly commodity trading, improvement in the export income of producing developing countries and in their terms of trade, and sustained growth of the world economy for the benefit of all;

To evolve a just and equitable relationship between the prices of raw materials, primary commodities, manufactured and semi-manufactured goods exported by developing countries and the prices of raw materials, primary commodities, food, manufactured and semi-manufactured goods arid capital equipment imported by them, .and to work for a link between the prices of exports of developing countries and the prices of their imports from developed countries;

( e) To take measures to reverse the continued trend of stagnation or decline in the real price of severnl commodities exported by developing countries, despite a general rise in commodity prices, resulting in a decline in the export earnings of these developing countries;

To take measures to expand the markets for natural products in relation to synthetics, taking into account the interests of the developing countries, and to utilize fully the ecological advantages of these products;

To take measures to promote the processing of raw materials in the producer developing rnuntrfos ..

Food All efforts should be made:

To take full account of specific problems •,)f: developing countries, particularly in times of food

e Resolution 3201 (S-VI).

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shortages, in the international efforts connected with the food problem;

To take into account that, owing to lack of means some developing countries have vast potentialities of unexploited or underexploited land which, if reclaimed and put into practical use, would contribute considerably to the solution of the food crisis;

By the international co~munit¥ to undert~ke concrete and speedy measures with a view to arresting desertification salination and damage by locusts or any other sio{ilar phe~omenon . involv~ng several developing countnes, particularly m Afnca, and gravely affecting the agricultural production capacity of these countries, and also to assist the developing countries affected by any such phenomenon to develop the affected zones with a view to contributing to the solution of their food problems;

To refrain from damaging or deteriorating natural resources and food resources, especially those derived from the sea, by preventing poflution and taking appropriate steps to protect and reconstitute those resources;

( e) By developed c~untries, in . evolving their policies relating to production, stocks, imports and exports of food, to take full account of Ute interests of:

Developing importing cc,juntries which cannot afford high prices for their imports;

Developing exporting countries which need increased market opportunities for their exports;

To ensure that developing c~untries can impo_rt the necessary quantity of food without un~ue stram on their foreign exchange resources and without unpredictable deterioration in their balance of payments, and, in this context, that special measures are taken in respect of the least. developed, land-locked ~nd island developing countries as well as those de_veloJ:!mg countries most seriously affected by economic cnses and natural calamities;

To ensure that concrete measures to increase food production and stor~ge facil_ities in dev~loping countries are introduced, inter alta, by ensurmg an increase in all available essential inputs, including fertilizers, from developed countries on favourable terms;

To promote export_s of food pro~ucts of developing countries through 1ust a?d e9U1_tabl_e arrangements, inter alia, by the progressive ehmma~1on of suc_h protective and other measures as constitute unfa1r competition.

General trade All efforts should be made:

To take the following measures for the amelioration of terms of trade of developing countries and concrete steps to eliminate chronic trade deficits of developing countries:

Fulfilment of relevant commitments already undertaken in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and in the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade;'

Improved access to markets in developed countries through the progressive removal of tariff and non-tariff barriers and of restrictive business practices;

7 Resolution 2626 (XXV). (iii) Expeditious formulation of commodity agreements where appropriate, in order to regulate as necessary and to stabilize the world markets for raw materials and primary commodities; (iv) Preparation of an over-all integrated programme, setting out guidelines and taking into account the current work in this field, for a comprehensive range of commodities of export interest to developing countries; (v) Where products of developing countries compete with the domestic production in developed countries,

each developed country should facilitate the expansion of imports from developing countries and provide a fair and reasonable opportunity to the developing countries to share in the growth of the market; (vi) When the importing developed countries derive receipts from customs duties, taxes and other protective measures applied to imports of these products, consideration should be given to the claim of the developing countries that these receipts should be reimbursed in full to the exporting developing countries or devoted to providing additional resources to meet their development needs; (vii) Developed countries should make appropriate adjustments in their economies so as to facilitate the expansion and diversification of imports from developing countries and thereby permit a rational, just and equitable international division of labour; (viii) Setting up general principles for pricing policy for exports of commodities of developing countries, with a view to rectifying and achieving satisfactory terms of trade for them; (ix) Until satisfactory terms of trade are achieved for all developing countries, consideration should be given to alternative means, including improved compensatory financing schemes for meeting the development needs of the developing countries concerned; Implementation, improvement and enlarge- (x) ment of the generalized system of preferences for exports of agricultural primary commodities,

manufactures and semi-manufactures from developing to developed countries and consideration of its extension to commodities, including those which are processed or semiprocessed; developing countries which are or will be sharing their existing tariff advantages in some developed countries as the result of the introduction and eventual enlargement of the generalized system of preferences should, as a matter of urgency, be granted new openings in the markets of other developed countries which should offer them export opportunities that at least compensate for the

sharing of those advantages; (xi) The setting up of buffer stocks within the framework of commodity arrangements and their financing by international financial institutions, wherever necessary, by the developed countries and, when they are able to do so, by the developing countries, with the aim of favouring the producer developing

and consumer developing countries and of contributing to the expansion of world trade as a whole;

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In cases where natural materials can satisfy the requirements of the market, new investment for the expansion of the capacity to produce synthetic materials and substitutes should not be made;

To be guided by the principles of non-reciprocity and preferential treatment of developing countries in multilateral trade negotiations between developed and developing countries, and to seek sustained and additional benefits for the international trade of developing countries, so as to achieve a substantial increase in their foreign exchange earnings, diversification of their exports and acceleration of the rate of their economic growth.

Transportation and insurance All efforts should be made:

To promote an increasing and equitable participation of developing countries in the world shipping tonnage;

To arrest and reduce the ever-increasing freight rates in order to reduce the costs of imports to, and exports from, the developing countries;

To minimize the cost ·of insurance and reinsurance for developing countries and to assist the growth of domestic insurance and reinsurance markets in developing countries and the establishment to this end, where appropriate, of institutions in these countries or at the regional level;

To ensure the early implementation of the code of conduct for liner conferences;

To take urgent measures to increase the import and export capability of the least developed countries and to offset the disadvantages of the advene geographic situation of land-locked countries, particularly wit& regard to their transportation and transit costs, as well as developing island countries in order to increase their trading abifity;

By the developed countries to refrain from imposing measures or implementing policies designed to prevent the importation, at equitable prices, of commodities from the developing countries or from frustrating the implementation of leftimate measures and policies adopted by the developtng countries in order to improve prices and encourage the export of such commodities.

II. INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM AND FINANC- ING OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEVELOPING COUN-

Objectives All efforts should be made to ref onn the international monetary system with, inter alia, the following objectives:

Measures to check the inflation already exi,erienced by the developed countries, to prevent it from being transferred to developing countries and to study and devise possible arrangements within the International Monetary Fund to mitigate the effects of inflation in developed countries on the economies of developing countries;

( b) Measures to eliminate the instability of the international monetary system, in particular the uncertainty of the exchange rates, especially as it affects adversely the trade in commodities;

( c) Maintenance of the real value of the currency reserves of the developing countries by preventing their erosion from inflation and exchange rate depreciation of reserve currencies;

Full and effective participation of developing countries in all phases of decision-making for the formulation of an equitable and durable monetary system and adequate participation of developing countries in all bodies entrusted with this reform and, particuiarly, in the proposed Council of Governors of the International Monetary Fund;

Adequate and orderly creation of additional liquidity with particular regard to the needs of the developing countries through the additional allocation of SP.:Cial drawing rights based on the concept of world liqutdity needs to be aprropriately revised m the light of the new intcrnationa environment; any creation of international liquidity should be made through international multilateral mechanisms;

Early establishment of a link between special drawinf rights and additional development financing in the mterest of developing countries, consistent with the monetary characteristics of special drawing rights;

Review by the International Monetary Fund of the relevant provisions in order to ensure effective participation by developing countries in the decisionmaking process;

Arrangements to promote an increasing net transfer of real resources from the developed to the developing c~untries;

Review of the methods of operation of the International Monetary Fund, in particular the terms for both credit repayments and "stand-by" arrangements, the system of compensatory financing, and the terms of the financing of commodity buffer stocks, so as to enable the developing countries to make more effective use of them.

Measures All efforts should be made to take the following urpnt measures to finance the development of developing countries and to meet the balance-of-payment crises in the developing world:

Implementation at an accelerated pace by the developed countries of the time-bound programme as already laid down In the International Developnient Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade, for the net amount of financial resource transfers to developing countries; increase in the official component of the net amount of financial resource transfers to developing countries so as to meet and even to exceed the target of the Strategy;

( b) International financing institutions shou Id effectively play their role as development financing bank 'l without discrimination on account of the political or economic system of any member country, assistance being untied;

( c) More enective participation oy developing countries, whether recipients or contributors, in the decision-making process in the competent organs of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Development Association,

through the establishment of a more equitable pattern of voting rights;

Exemption, wherever possible, of the developing countries from all import and capit_al outflow controls imposed by the developed countries;

Promotion of foreign investme~t, both ~ubl_ic and private, from developed to deve)opmg co~mtnes m accordance with the needs and rcqmremcnts m sectors of their economies as determined by the recipient countries;

Appropriate urgent measures, i~~luding international action, should be taken to mitigate adverse consequences for the current and future development of developing countries arising from the burden of external debt contracted on hard terms;

Debt renegotiation on a case-by-case basis 'Yith a view to concluding agreements on debt cancellation, moratorium, rescheduling or interest subsidization;

International financial institutions should t~ke into account the special situation of each developing country in reorienting their lending policies to suit these urgent need_s; there_ is also nee~ fo~ impro_veme!1t in practices of mternational financial mst1tut1ons m regard to, inter alia, development financing and international monetary problems;

Appropriate steps should be taken to give priority to the lea~t developed, land-loc~ed and islan~ developing countries and to the countries most seriously affected by economic crises and natural calamities in the availability of loans for development purpos~s which should include more favourable terms and conditions.

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All efforts should be made by the international community to tak~ measures to encourage the industrialization of the developing countries, and to this end:

The developed countries should respond favourably, within the framework of their official aid as well as international financial institutions, to the requests of developing countries for the financing of industrial projects;

( b) The developed countries should encourage investors to finance industrial production projects, particularly export-oriented production, in developing countries, in agreement with the latter and within the context of their laws and regulations;

With a view to bringing about a new international economic structure which should increase the share of the developing countries in world industrial production, the developed countries and the a~encies of the United Nations system, in co-operation with the developing countries, should contribute to setting up new industrial capacities including raw materials and commodity-transforming facilities as a matter of priority in the developing countries that produce those raw materials and commodities;

The international community should continue and expand, with the aid of the developed countries and the international institutions, the operational and instruction-oriented technical assistance programmes, including vocational training and management development of national personnel of the developing countries, in the light of their special development requirements. General A111embly-Sixth Special Senion

{a) To formulate an international code of conduct for the transfer of te.chnology corresponding to needs and conditions prevalent in developing countries;

( b) To give access on improved terms to modem technology and to adapt that technology, as appropriate. to specific economic, social and ecological conditions and varying stages of development in developing countries;

To expand significantly the assistance from developed to developing countries in research and development programmes and in the creation of suitable indigenous technology;

To adapt commercial practices governing transfer of technology to the requirements of the developing countries and to prevent abuse of the rights of sellers;

To promote international co-operation in research and development in exploration and exploitation, conservation and the legitimate utilization of natural resources and all sources of energy. In taking the above measures, the special needs of the least developed and land-locked countries should be borne in mind.

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All efforts should be made to formulate, adopt and implement an international code of conduct for transnational corporations:

To prevent interference in the internal affairs of the countries where they operate and their collaboration with racist regimes and colonial administrations;

To regulate their activities in host countries, to eliminate restrictive business practices and to conform to the national development plans and objectives of developing countries, and in this context facilitate, as necessary, the review and revision of previously concluded arrangements;

To bring about assistance, transfer of technology and management skills to developing countries on equitable and favourable terms;·

To regulate the repatriation of the profits accruing from their operations, taking into account the legitimate interests of all parties concerned;

To promote reinvestment of their profits in developing countries.

OF STATES The Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States, the draft of which is being prepared by a working group of the United Nations and which the General Assembly has already expressed the intention of adopting at its twenty-ninth regular session, shall constitute an effective instrument towards the establishment oi a new system of international economic relations based on equity, sovereign equality, and interdependence of the interests of developed and developing countries. It is therefore of vital importance that the

aforementioned Charter be adopted by the General Assembly at its twenty-run ' th session.

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DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Collective self-reliance and growing co-operation among developing countries will further strengthen their role in the new international economic order. Developing countri~s, with a v~ew to expandin~ cooperation at the regional, subregional and mterreg1onal levels, should take further steps, inter alia:

To support the establishment and/or improvement of an appropriate mechanism to defend the prices of their exportable commodities and to improve access to and stabilize markets for them. In this context the increasingly effective mobilization by the whole group of oll-exporting countries of their natural resources for the benefit of their economic development is to be welcomed. At the same time there is the paramount need for co-operation among the developing countries in evolving urgently and in a spirit of solidarity all possible means _to assist developin~ countries _to c~~ with the immediate problems resultmg from this legitimate and perfectly justified action. The measures already taken in this regard are a positive indication of the evolving co-operation between developing countries;

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

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

To increase considerably their imports from other developing countries;

To ensure that no developing country accords to imports from developed countries more favourable treatment than that accorded to imports from developing countries. Taking into account the existing international agreements, current limitations and possibiJities and also their future evolution, preferential treatment should be given to the procurement of import requirements from other developing countries. Wherever possible, preferential treatment should be given to imports from developing countries and the exports of those countries;

To promote close co-operation in the fields of finance, credit relations and monetary issues, including the development of credit relations on a preferential basis and on favourable terms;

To strengthen efforts which are already being made by developing countries to utilize available financial resources for financing development in the developing countries through investment, financing of exportoriented and emergency projects and other long-term assistance;

To promote and establish effective instruments of co-operation in the fields of industry, science and technology, transport, shipping and mass communication media.

Developed countries should support initiatives in the regional, subregional and interregional cooperation of deveJopinJ countries through the extension of financial and techmcal assistance by more effective and concrete actions, particularly in the field of commercial policy.

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To defeat attempts to prevent the free and effective exercise of the rights of every State to full and permanent sovereignty over its natural resources;

( b) To ensure that competent agen~ies of the United Nations system meet requests for assistance fro!fl developing countries in connexion with the operation of nationalized means of production.

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THE UNITED

In furtherance of the objectives of the lnJernational Development Strategy for the Second Umt_ed Nations Development Decade and in a~cordance with the aims and objectives of the Declaration o~ the Establishment of a New International Economic Order, all Member States pledge to make full ~se of the United Nations system in the implementation of the present Programme of Action, jointly adop!ed by t~em, in working for the establishment of a new mtemat10nal economic order and thereby strengthening the role of the United Nations in the field of world-wide co-operation for economic and social development.

The General Assembly of the United Nati?ns shall conduct an over-all review of the implementation of the Programme of Action as a priority item. All the activities of the United Nations system to be undertaken under the Programme of Action as well as those already planned, such as the World Population Conference 1974 the World Food Conference, the Second General Conference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the mid-term review and appraisal of the International Development Strate!?Y for the Second United Nations Development Decade should be so directed as to enable the special session of the General Assembly on development, called for under Assembly resolution 3172 (XXVIIT) of 17 December 1973, to make its full contribution to the establishment of the new international economic order. All Member States are urged, jointly and individually, to direct their efforts and policies towards the success of that special session.

The Economic and Social Council shall define the policy framework and co-ordinate the activities of all organizations, institutions and subsidiary bodies within the United Nations system which shall be entrusted with the ta~k of implementing the present Programme of Action. In order to enable the Economic and Social Council to carry out its tasks effectively:

All organizations, institutions and subsidiary bodies concerned within the United Nations system shall submit to the Economic and Social Council progress reports on the implementation of the Programme of Action within their respective fields of competence as ofren as necessary, but not less than once a year;

The Economic and Social Council shall examine the progress reports as a matter of urgency, to which end it may be convened, as neces!-ary, in special session or, if need be, may function continuously. It shall draw the attention of the General Assembly to the problems and difficulties arising in connexion with the implementation of the Programme of Action.

All organizations, institutions, subsidiary bodies and conferences of the United Nations system are entrusted with the implementation of the Programme of Action. The activities of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, as set forth in General Assembly resolution 1995 (XIX) of 30 December 1964, should be strengthened for the purpose of following in collaboration with other competent organizations the development of international trade in raw materials throughout the world.

Urgent and effective measures should be taken to review the lending policies of international financial institutions, taking into account the special situation •.-" each developing country, to suit urgent needs, to improve the practices of these institutions in regard to, inter alia, development financing and international monetary problems, and to ensure more effective participation by developing countries-whether recipients or contributors-in the decision-making process through appropriate revision of the pattern of votin[! rights.

The developed countries and others in a position to do so should contribute substantially to the various organizations,

programmes and funds established within the United Nations system for the purpose of accelerating economic and social development in developing countries.

The present Programme of Action complements and strengthens the goals and objectives embodied in the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade as welt as the new measures formulated by the General Assembly at its twenty-eighth session to offset the shortfalls jn achieving those goals and objectives.

The implementation of the Pro~ramme of Action should be taken into account at the time of the midtenn review and appraisal of the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade. New commitments, changes, additions and adaptations in the Strategy should be made, as appropriate, taking into account the Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order and the present Programme of Action.

X. SPECIAL PROGRAMME The General Assembly adopts the following Special Programme, including particularly en1ergency mea~ures to mitigate the difficulties of the developing countries most seriously affected by economic crisis. bearing in mind the particular problem of the least developed and land-locked countries:

Decides to launch a Special Programme to provide emergency relief and development assistance to the developing countries most seriously affected, as a matter of urgency, and for the period of time necessary, at least until the end of the Second United Nations Development Decade, to help them overcome their present difficulties and to achieve selfsustaining economic development;

Decides as a first step in the Special Programme to request the Secretary-General to launch an emergency operation to provide timely relief to the most seriously affected developing countries, as defined in subparagraph (c) above, with the aim of maintaining unimpaired essential imports for the duration of the coming twelve months and to invite the indus-

8 A/9548, annex. 9 Official Records of the General Assembly. Sixth Special Session, Plenary Meetings, 2208th meeting, para., 3-JS2. trialized countries and other potential contribut~rs to announce their contributions for emergency ass1Stance, or intimate their intention to do so, by 15 June 1974 to be provided through bilateral or multilateral channels, taking into account the commitments and measures of assistance announced or already taken by some countries, and further requests the Secretary-General to report the progress of t!te emergency operation to the General Assembly at its twenty-ninth session, through the ~onormc and Social Council at its fifty-seventh session;

Calls upon the industrialized countries and other potential contributors to extend to t~e most seriously affected countries immediate rehef. and assistance which must be of an order of magmtude that is commensurate with the needs of these countries. Such assistance should be in addition to the existing level of aid and provided at a very early date to the maximum possible extent on a grant basis and, where not possible, on soft terms. The disbursement and relevant operational procedures and terms must reflect this exceptional situation. The assistance could be provided either through bilateral or multilateral channels, including such new institutions and facilities that have been or are to be set up. The spedal measures may include the following:

Special arrangements on particularly favourable terms and conditions inoluding possible subsidies for and assured supplies of essential commodities and goods;

( b) Deferred payments for all or part of imports of essential commodities and goods;

( c) Commodity assistance, including food aid, on a grant basis or deferred payments in local currencies,

bearing in mind that this should not adversely affect the exports of developing countries;

Long-term suppliers' credits on easy terms;

( e) Long-term financial assistance on concessionary terms;

Drawings from special International Monetary Fund facilities on concessional terms;

Establishment of a link between the creation of special drawing rights and development assistance,

taking into account the additional financial requirements of the most seriously affected countries;

( h) Subsidies, provided bilaterally or multilateralJy, for interest on funds available on commercial terms borrowed by the most seriously affected countries;

Debt renegotiation on a case-by-case basis with a view to concluding agreements on debt cancellation, moratorium or rescheduling;

Provision on more favourable terms of capital goods and technical assistance to accelerate the industrialization of the affected countries;

Investment in industrial and development projects on favourable terms;

(/) Subsidizing the additional transit and transport costs, especially of the land-locked countries;

Appeals to the developed countries to consider favourably the cancellation, moratorium or rescheduling of the debts of the most seriously affected developing countries, on their request, as an important contribution to mitigating the grave and urgent difficulties of these countries;

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Decides to establish a Special Fund under the auspices of the United Nations, throup voluntary contributions from industrialized countnes and other "al potenti contributors, as a part of the Special Programme, to provide emergency relief and development assistance, which will commence its operations nt the latest by 1 January 197S; . 6. Establishes an Ad Hoe Committee on the Spec1al Programme, composed of thirty-six Member States appointed by the President of the General A!SCmbly, after appropriate consultations, bearing in mmd the purposes of the Special Fund and its terms of reference:

To make recommendations, inter aUa,.on the scope, machinery and modes of operation of the Special Fund, taking into account the need for:

Equitable representation on its governing body;

Equitable distribution of its resomces;

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Full utilization of the services end facilities of existing intemationaJ organizations;

The possibility of merging the United Nations Capital Development Fund with the operations of the Special Fund,·

( v) A central monitoring body to oversee the various measures being taken both bilaterally and multilaterally; and, to this end, bearing in mind the different ideas and proposms submitted at the sixth special session; including those put forward by Ira0 10 and those made at the 2208th plenary meeting, and the comments thereon, and the possibility of utilizing the Special Fund to provide an alternative channel for normal development ~istance after the emergency period;

To monitor, pending commencement of the. op~rations of the Special Fund, the various measures betng taken both bilaterally and multilaterally to assist the most seriously affected countries; . ( c) To prepare,. on the basis of infonnation prov1ded by the countries concerned and by appropriate agencies of the United Nations system, a broad assessment oft

The magnitude of the difficulties facing the most seriously affected countries;

( ii) The kind and quantities of the commodities and goods essentially required by them;

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Their need for financial assistance;

Their technical assistance requirements, inoluding especially access to technology;

Requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and ~evelopment, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and the ~eads of th~ other competent international organiza- Uons to assist the Ad Hoe Committee on the Special ?rogramme in performing the functions assigned to it under paragraph 6 above, and to help, as appropriate, in the operations of the Special ~d;

10 A/ AC. 166/L 1.5; see also A/9.548, annex.

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Requests the International Monetary Fund to expedite decisions on:

The establishment of an extended special facility with a view to enabling the most seriously affected developing countries to participate in it on favourable terms;

The creation of special drawing rights and the early establishment of the link between their allocation and development financing;

The establishment and operation of the proposed new special facility to extend credits and subsidize interest charges on commercial funds borrowed by Member States, bearing in mind the interests of the developing countries and especially the additional financial requirements of the most seriously affected countries;

Requests the World Bank Group and the lnternational Monetary Fund to place their managerial, financial and technical services at the disposal of Governments contributing to emergency financial relief so as to enable them to assist without delay in channelling funds to the recipients, making such institutional and procedural changes as may be required;

Invites the United Nations Development Programme to take the necessary steps, particularly at the country level, to respond on an emergency basis to requests for additional assistance which it may be called upon to render within the framework of the Special Programme;

Requests the Ad Hoe Committee on the Special Programme to submit its report and recommendations to the Economic and Social Council at its fifty-seventh session and invites the Council, on the basis of its consideration of that report, to submit suitable recommendations to the General Assembly at its twenty-ninth session;

Decides to consider as a matter of high priority at its twenty-ninth session, within the framework of a new international economic order, the question of special measures for the most seriously affected countries.

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