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

A/RES/3273(XXIX)No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1975.

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?

6 topics
Advisory ServicesCountry ProgrammesDevelopment PolicyEconomic PolicySocial ChangeSocial Policy

What does this mandate say?

9 operative paragraphs
1
Real]irms that each State has the sovereign right to adopt the economic and social system which it regards appropriate for its own development;
2
Stresses the importance of interna! democratic social and economic changes designed to safeguard national independence and to ensure a speedy improvement of the well-being of the population;
3
Reaffirms the importance of the right of every State to exercise its permanent sovereignty over ali its riches, natural resources and economic activities for the purpose of achieving economic and sociai progress;
li3 E/CN.5/478 and Add.l and Add.1/Corr.l ar.d 2, Add.2 and Add.2/Corr.l, Add.3 and Add.3/Corr.1, Add.4.
54 Resolution 2542 (XXIV). Gellft'lll Anembly-Twenty-ninth Seaaion
4
Further real]irms the right of every State to carry out social and economic changes for the purpose of social progress, including nationalization, as well as the right to take ali appropriate mc;asures in connexion with the activities of transnational corporations which it considers detrimental to the achievement of economíe and social progress;
5
Recommends that measures should be taken at ali levels to ensure more active participation by the entire population in .the preparation and execution of economic and social development policies and programmes designed to achieve social and economic progress, taking into account the experience of all countries in this field;
6
Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations Development Programme to hold, within the programme of advisory services, interregional and regionaI seminars to study the national experience of déveloping and developed countries in carrying out farreaching social and economic changes for the purpose of. social progress without prejudicing the operational programmes prepared for the developing countries;
1
Recommends that the regional commissions should consider this problem at their sessions;
8
Endorses the action taken by the Economic apd Social Council requesting the Commission for Social Development to continue the study of national experience in carrying out far-reaching social and economic changes for the purpose of social progress;116
9
kequests the Secretary-General to submit a comprehensive report on national experience in achieving far-reaching saciar and economic changes for the porpose of social progress to the General Assembly at its thirtieth session and to give appropriate attention to this question in his reports on the world social situation;
1 O. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirtieth session the item entitled "National experience in achieving far-reaching social and economic changes for the purpose of social progress".

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