Development and International Economic Co-Operation

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Decides, to this end and in the context of the foregoing, to set in motion the following measures as the basis and framework for the work of the competent bodies and organizations of the United Nations system:

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Concerted efforts should be made in favour of the developing countries towards expanding and diversifying their trade, improving and diversifying their productive capacity, improving their productivity and increasing their export earnings, with a view

10 Resolutions 3201 (S-VI) and 3202 (S-VI).

11 Resolution 3281 (XXIX).

12 Resolution 2626 (XXV).

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to counteracting the adverse effects of inflationthereby sustaining real incomes-and with a view to improving the terms of trade of the developing countries and in order to eliminate the economic imbalance between developed and developing countries.

Concerted action should be taken to accelerate the growth and diversification of the export trade of developing countries in manufactures and semi-manufactures and in processed and semi-processed products in order to increase their share in world industrial output and world trade within the framework of an expanding world economy.

An important aim of the fourth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, in addition to work in progress elsewhere, should be to reach decisions on the improvement of market structures in the field of raw materials and commodities of export interest to the developing countries, including decisions with respect to an integrated programme and the applicability of elements thereof. In this connexion, taking into account the distinctive features of individual raw materials and commodities, the decisions should bear on the following:

Appropriate international stocking and other forms of market arrangements for securing stable, remunerative and equitable prices for commodities of export interest to developing countries and promoting equilibrium between supply and demand, including, where possible, long-term multilateral commitments;

( b) Adequate international financing facilities for such stocking and market arrangements;

( c) Where possible, promotion of long-term and medium-term contracts;

Substantial improvement of facilities for compensatory financing of export revenue fluctuations through the widening and enlarging of the existing facilities. Note has been taken of the various proposals regarding a comprehensive scheme for the stabilization of export earnings of developing countries and for a development security facility as well as specific measures for the benefit of the developing countries most in need;

Promotion of processing of raw materials in producing developing countries and expansion and diversification of their exports, particularly to developed countries;

Effective opportunities to improve the share of developing countries in transport, marketing and distribution of their primary commodities and to encourage measures of world significance for the evolution of the infrastructure and secondary capacity of developing countries from the production of

primary commodities to proc~ssing, _tr~nsport and marketing, and to the production of fimshed manufactured goods, their transport, distrihution and exchange, including advanced financi:ll and exchange institutions for the remunnative management of trade transactions.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development should present a report to the Conference at its fourth session on the impact of an integrnt~d prowamme on _the imports of developing countnes wh1c?_ are_ net 1_mporters of raw materials and commod1ties, mcludmg those lacking in natural resources, and recommend any remedial measures that may be necessary.

A number of options are open to the international community to preserve the purchasing power of developing countries. These need to be further studied on a priority basis. The Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development should continue to study dire~t and _indirect indexation schemes and other options with a view to making concrete proposals before the Conference at its fourth session.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development should prepare a preliminary study on the proportiqn between prices of raw materials and commodities exported by developing countries and the ~nal consume~ p~ic~, particularly in developed countnes, and submit 1t, 1f possible, to the Conference at its fourth session.

Developed countries should fully implement agreed provisions on the principle of standstill as regards imports from developing countries, and any departure should be subjected to such measures as consultations and multilateral surveillance and compensation, in accordance with internationally agreed criteria and procedures.

Developed countries should take effective steps within the framework of multilateral trade negotiations for the reduction or removal, where feasible and appropriate, of non-tariff barriers affecting the products of export interest to developing countries on a differential and more favourable basis for developing countries. The generalized scheme of preferences should not terminate at the end of the period of ten years originally envisaged and should be continuously improved throu~h wider coverage, deeper cuts and other measures, bearing in mind the interests of those developing countries which enjoy special advantages and the need for finding ways and means for protecting their interests.

Countervailing duties should be applied only in conformity with internationally agreed obligations. Developed countries should exercise maximum restraint within the framework of international obligations in the imposition of countervailing duties on the imports of products from developing countries. The multilateral trade negotiations under way should take fully into account the particular interests of developing countries with a view to providing them differential and more favourable treatment in appropriate cases.

Restrictive business practices adversely affecting international trade, particularly that of developing countries, should be eliminated and efforts should be made at the national and international levels with the objective of negotiating a set of equitable principles and rules.

Special measures should be. undertak~n ~y developed countries and by developmg countries Ill a position to do so to assist in the structural transformation of the economy of the least developed, land-locked and island developing countries.

Emergency measures as spelled out in section X of General Assembly resolution 3202 (S-VI) should be undertaken on a temporary basis to meet the specific problems of the most scrious\y affected cow1tries as defined in Assembly resolut10ns 3201 (S-Vl) and 3202 (S-VI) of 1 May 1974, with':mt any detriment to the interests of the developmg coLmtrics as a whole.

Further expansion of trade between the socialist countries of Eastern Europe and the developing countries should be intensified as is provided for in resolutions 15 (II) of 25 March 196813 and 53 {Ill) of 19 May 197214 of the United Nations_ ~onference on Trade and Development. Additional measures and appropriate orientation to achieve this end are necessary.

I. Concessional financial resources to developing countries need to be increased substantially, their terms and conditions ameliorated and their flow made predictable, continuous and increasingly assured. so as to facilitate the implementation by deve]opmg countries of long-term programmes for econonuc and social development. Financial assistance should, as a general rule, be untied.

Developed countries confirm their ~ontinued commitment in respect of the targets relatmg to the transfer of resources, in particular the official development assistance target of_ 0. 7 per cent. of gross national product, as agreed m the lnternat10nal Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade, and adopt as their common aim an effective increase in official development assistance with a view to achieving these targets by the end of the decade. Developed countries which have not yet made a commitment in respect of these targets undertake to make their best efforts to reach these targets in the remaining part of this decade.

The establishment of a link between the special drawing rights and development assistance should form part of the consideration by the International Monetary Fund of the creation of new special drawing rights as and when they are created according to the needs of international liquidity. Agreement should be reached at an early date on the establishment of a trust fund, to be financed partly through the International Monetary Fund gold sales and partly through voluntary contributions and to be governed by an appropriate body, for the benefit of developing countries. Consideration of other means of transfer of real resources which are predictable, assured and continuous should be expedited in appropriate bodies.

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Developed countries and international orga!1izations should enhance the real value and volume of assistance to developing countries and ensure that the developing countries obtain !he largest possible share in the procurement of eqmpment, consultants and consultaney services. Such assistance ~hould be on softer terms and, as a general rule, untied.

In order to enlarge the pool of resources available for financing development, there is an urgent need to increase substantially the capital of the World Bank Group, in particular the resources of the International Development Association, to enable it to make additional capital available to the poorest countries on highly concessional terms.

The resources of the development in,titutions of the United Nations svstem, in particular the United Nations Development Programme, should also be increased. The funds at the disposal of the regional development banks should be augmented. These increases should be without prejudice to bilateral development assistance flows.

To the extent desirable, the World Bank Group is invited to consider new ways of supI?lementing its financing with private management, skills, technology and capital anJ also new approaches to increase financing of development in developing countries, in accordance with their national plans and priorities.

The burden of debt on developing countries is increasing to a point where the import capacity as well as reserves have come under serious strain. At its fourth session the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development shall consider the need for, and the possibility of, convening as soon as possible a conference of major donor, creditor and debtor countries to devise ways and means to mitigate this burden, taking into account the development needs of developing countries, with special attention to the plight of the most seriously affected countries as defined in General Assembly resolutions 3201 (S-VI) and 3202 (S-VI).

Developing countries should be granted increased access on favourable terms to the capital markets of developed countries. To this end, the joint Development Committee of the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development should progress as rapidly as possible in its work. Appropriate United Nations bodies and other related intergovernmental agencies should be invited to examine ways and means of increasing the flow of public and private resources to developing countries, including proposals made at the current session to provide investment in private and public enterprises in the developing countries. Consideration should be given to the examination of an international investment trust and to the expansion of the International Finance Corporation capital without prejudice to the increase in resources of other intergovernmental financial and development institutions and bilateral assistance flows.

Developed and developing countries should

further co-operate through investment of financial resources and supply of technology and equipment to developing countries by developed countries and by developing countries in a position to do so.

Developed countries, and developing countries in a position to do so, arc urged to make adequate contributions to the United Nations Special Fund with a view to an early implementation of a programme of lending, prcfer;,bly in 1976.

Developed countries should improve terms and condition; of their assistance so as to include a preponderant grant clement for the least developed, land-iocked and island developing cour:tries.

In providing additional resources for assisting the mo~t sc:riously alkc'cd countries in helping them to meet their ~erious balance-of-payments deficits, all developed countries, and developing countries in a po~ition to do so, and international organizaticns :-uch as the lntcrn:,tional Bank for R..:construction anJ Development and the International Monetary f'und, should undc;·take specific measures in their favour, including those provided in General Assembly resolutions 3201 (S-Vl) and 3202 (S-VI).

Special attention should be given by the international c01n,;,unity to the phenomena of natural disasters which frequently affiict many parts of the worh.J. with far-rea:hing devastating economic, social and ~tructural consequences, particularly in the lca-.t developed countries. To this end, the General Assembly at its thirtieth session, in considering this problem, should examine and adopt appropriate rncasures.

15·. The role of national reserve currencies should b,• reduced and the special drawing rights should become the central reserve asset of the international monetary s:, stem in order to provide for greater intc.:·national control over the creation and equitable distribution of liquiJity and in order to limit potential losses as a con,;equence of exchange rate fluctuations. Arrangements for gold should be consistent with the agr<.:ed objective of reducing the role of gold in the system and with equitable distribution of new intern:itic,nal liquidity and should in particular take into con-.idcration the needs of developing countries for increased liquidi ly.

The process of decision-making should be fair and responsive to change and should he most specially responsive to the emcrgence of a new economic influence on the part of developing countries. The participation of developing countries in the decision-making process in the competent organs of international finance and development institutions should be adequately increased and made more effective without adversely affecting the broad geographic representation of developing countries and in accordance with the existing and evolving rules.

The compensatory financing facility now available through the International Monetary Fund should be e\panded and liberalized. In this connexion, early consideration should be given by the Fund and other appropriate United Nations bodies to various proposals made at the current sessionincluding the examination of a new development security facility--which would mitigate export earnings shortfalis of developing countries, with special regard to the poorest countries, and thus provide greater assistance to their continued economic development. Early consideration should also be given by the Internaticnal Monetary Fund to proposals to expand and liberalize its coverage of current transactions to include manufactures and services, to ensure that, whenever possible. compensation for export shortfalls t:t'.:es place at the same time they

occur, to take into account, in determining the quantum of compensation, movements in import prices and to lengthen the repayment period.

Drawing under the buffer stock financing facility of the International Monetary Fund should be accorded treatment with respect to floating alongside the gold tranche, similar to that under the compensatory financing facility, and the Fund should expedite its study of the possibility of an amendment of the Articles of Agreement, to be presented to the Interim Committee, if possible at its next meeting, that would permit the Fund to provide assistance directly to internatiomil buffer stocks of primary products.

Developed and developing countries should co-operate in the establishment, strengthening and development of the scientific and technological infrastructure of developing countries. Developed countries should also take appropriate measures, such as contribution to the establishment of an industrial technological information bank and consideration of the possibility of regional and sectoral banks, in order to make available a greater flow to developing countries of information permitting the selection of technologies, in particular advanced technologies. Consideration should also be given to the establishment of an international centre for the exchange of technological information for the sharing of research findings relevant to developing countries. For the above purposes institutional arrangements within the United Nations system should be examined by the General Assembly at its thirtieth session.

Developed countries should significantly expand their assistance to developing countries for direct support to their science and technology programmes, as well as increase substantially the proportion of their research and development devoted to specific problems of primary interest to developing countries, and in the creation of suitable indigenous technology, in accordance with feasible targets to be agreed upon. The General Assembly invites the Secretary-General to carry out a preliminary study and to report to the Assembly at its thirty-first session on the possibility of establishing, within the framework of the United Nations system, an international energy institute to assist all developing countries in energy resources research and development.

All States should co-operate in evolving an international code of conduct for the transfer of technology, corresponding, in particular, to the special needs of the developing countries. Work on such a code should therefore be continued within the United Nat ions Conference on Trade and Development and concluded in time for decisions to be reached at the fourth session of the Conference, including a decision on the legal character of such a code with the objective of the adoption of a code of conduct prior to the end of 1977. International conventions on patents and trade marks should be reviewed and revised to meet, in particular, the special needs of the developing countries, in order that these conventions may become more satisfactory instruments for aiding developing countries in the transfer and development of technology. National patents systems should, without delay, be brought into line with the international patent system in its revised form.

Developed countries should facilitate the access of developing countries on favourable terms and conditions, and on an urgent basis, to informatique, to relevant information on advanced and other technologies suited to their specific needs as well as on new uses of existing technology, new developments and possibilities of adapting them to local needs. Inasmuch as in market economies advanced technologies with respect to industrial production arc most frequently developed by private institutions, developed countries should facilitate and encourage these institutions in providing effective technologies in support of the priorities of developing countries ..

Developed countries should give developing countries the freest and fullest possible access to technologies whose transfer is not subject to private decision.

Developed countries should improve the transparency of the industrial property market in order to facilitate the technological choices of developing countries. In this respect, relevant organizations of the United Nations system, with the collaboration of developed countries, should undertake projects in the fields of information, consultancy and training for the benefit of developing countries.

A United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development should be held in 1978 or J 979 with the main objectives of strengthening the technological capacity of developing countries to enable them to apply science and technology to their own development; adopting effective means for the utilization of scientific and technological pokntials in the solution of development problems of regional and global significance, especially for the benefit of developing countries; and providing instruments of co-operation to developing countries in the utilization of science and technology for solving socioeconomic problems that cannot be solved by individual action, in accordance with national priorities,

taking into account the recommendations made by the Intergovernmental Working Group of the Committee on Science and Technology for Development.

The United Nations system should play a major role, with appropriate financing, in achieving the above-stated objectives and in developing scientific and technological co-operation between all States in order to ensure the application of science and technology to development. The work of the relevant United Nations bodies, in particular that of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the International Labour Organisation, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Intellectual Property Organization and the United Nations Development Programme, to facilitate the transfer and diffusion of technology should be given urgent priority. The Secretary-General of the United Nations should take steps to ensure that the technology and experience available within the United Nations system is widely dis~eminated and readily available to the developing countries in need of it.

The World Health Organization and the competent organs of the United Nations system, in particular the United Nations Children's Fund. should intensify the international effort aimed at improving health conditions in developing countries by giving

priority to prevention of disease and malnutrition and by providing primary health services to the communities, including maternal and child health and family welfare.

Since the outflow of qualified personnel from developing to developed countries seriously hampers the development of the former, there is an urgent need to formulate national and international policies to avoid the "brain drain" and to obviate its adverse effects.

The General Assembly endorses the Lima Declaration and Plan of Action on Industrial Development Co-operation15 and requests all Governments to take individually and/or collectively the necessary measures and decisions required to implement effectively their undertakings in terms of the Lima Declaration and Plan of Action.

Developed countries should facilitate the development of new policies and strengthen existing policies, including labuur market policies, which would encourage the redeployment of their industries which are less competitive internationally to developing countries, thus leading to structural adjustments in the former and a higher degree of utilization of natural and human resources in the latter. Such policies may take into account the economic structure and the economic, social and security objectives of the developed countries concerned and the need for such industries to move into more viable lines of production or into other sectors of the economy.

A system of consultations as provided for by the Lima Plan of Action should be established at the global, regional, interregional and sectoral levels within the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and within other appropriate international bodies, between developed and developing countries and among developing countries themselves, in order to facilitate the achievement of the goals set forth in the field of industrialization, including the redeployment of certain productive capacities existing in developed countries and the creation of new industrial facilities in developing countries. In this context, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization should serve as a forum for negotiation of agreements in the field of industry between developed and developing countries and among developing countries themselves, at the request of the countries concerned.

The Executive Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization should take immediate action to ensure the readiness of that organization to serve as a forum for consultations and negotiation of agreements in the field of industry. In reporting to the next session of the Industrial Development Board on actions taken in this respect, the Executive Director should also include proposals for the establishment of a system of consultations. The Industrial Development Board is invited to draw up, at an early date, the rules of procedure according to which this system would operate.

To promote co-operation between developed and developing countries, both should endeavour to disseminate appropriate information about their priority areas for industrial co-operation and the form

16 See A/10112, chap. IV. they would like such co-operation to take. The efforts undertaken by the United Nat ions Conference on Trade and Development on tripartite co-operation between countries having different economic and social systems could lead to constructive proposals for the industrialization of developing countries.

Developed countries should, whenever possible, encourage their enterprises to participate in investment projects within the framework of the development plans and programmes of the developing countries which so desire; such participation should be carried out in accordance with the laws and regulations of the developing countries concerned.

A joint study should be undertaken by all Governments under the auspices of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, in consultation with the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, making full use of the knowledge, experience and capacity existing in the United Nations system of methods and mechanisms for diversified financial and technical co-operation which are geared to the special and changing requirements of international industrial co-operation, as well as of a general set of guidelines for bilateral industrial co-operation. A progress report on this study should be submitted to the General Assembly at its thirty-first session.

Special attention should be given to the particular problems in the industrialization of the least developed, land-locked and island developing countries-in order to put at their disposal those technical and financial resources as well as critical goods which need to be provided to them to enable them to overcome their specific problems and to play their due role in the world economy, warranted by their human and material resources.

The General Assembly endorses the recommendation of the Second General Conference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to convert that organization into a specialized agency and decides to establish a Committee on the Drafting of a Constitution for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, which shall be an intergovernmental committee of the whole, including States which participated in the Second General Conference, to meet in Vienna to draw up a constitution for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization as a specialized agency, to be submitted to a conference of plenipotentiaries to be convened by the Secretary-General in the last quarter of 1976.

In view of the importance of the forthcoming Tripartite World Conference on Employment, Income Distribution, Social Progress and the International Division of Labour, Governments should undertake adequate preparations and consultations.

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The solution to world food problems lies primarily in rapidly increasing food production in the developing countries. To this end, urgent and necessary changes in the pattern of world food production should be introduced and trade policy measures should be implemented, in order to obtain a notable increase in agricultural production and the export earnings of developing countries.

To achieve these objectives, it is essential that developed countries, and developing countries in a

position to do so, should substantially increase the volume of assistance to developing countries for agriculture and food production, and that developed countries should effectively facilitate access to their markets for food and agricultural products of export interest to developing countries. both in raw :rnd processed form, and adupt adjustment measures, where necessary.

Developing countries should accord high priority to agricultural and fisheries development, increase investment accordingly and adopt policies which give adequate im:,:ntivcs to agricultural producers. It is a responsibility of each State concerned, in accordance with its sovereign j_udgement and development plans and policies, to pl'orr.iote interacti?n between expansion of fcod productton and soc10- cconomic reforms, with a view to achieving an integrated rural development. The further_ reduction _of post-harvest food losses in dcvelopmg countnes should be undertaken as a matter of priority, with a view to reaching at least a 50 per cent reduction by 1985. All countries and competent international organizations should co-ol?erate ~nan~ial!y and t~chnically in the effort to achieve tlus obJect1ve. Particular attention should be given to improvement in the systems of distribution of food-stuffs.

The Consultative Group on Food Production and Investment in Developing Countries should quickly identify developing countries having the potential for most rapid and efficient increase of food production, as well as the potential f?r rapid a

Developed countries should adopt policies aimed at ensuring a stable supply and sufficient quantity of fertilizers and other production inputs to developing countries at reasonable prices. T~ey should also provide assistance to, and promote mvestments in, developing countries to improve · the efficiency of their fertilizer and other agricultural input industries. Advantage should b_e taken o'. _the mechanism provided by the Internat10nal Fertilizer Supply Scheme.

In order to make additional resources avail- 6. able on concessional terms for agricultural development in developing countries, developed countries and developing countries in a position to do so should pledge, on a voluntary basis, substantial contributions to the proposed International _Fund for Agricultural Development so as t? e~a~~e 1t to come into being by the encl of 1975, with 1111tial resources of SDR 1,000 million. Thereafter, additional resources should be provided to the Fund on a continuing basis.

In view of the significant impact of basic and applied agricultural research on increasing the quantity and quality of food production, developed countries should support the expansion of the work of the existing international agricultural research centres. Through their bilateral programmes they should strengthen their links with these international research centres and with the national agricultural research centres in developing countries. With respect to the improvement of the productivity and competitiveness with synthetics of non-food agricultural and forestry products, research and technological assistance should be co-ordinated and financed through an appropriate mechanism.

In view of the importance of food aid as a transitional measure, all countries should accept both the principle of a minimum food aid target and the concept of forward planning of food aid. The target for the 1975-1976 season should be 10 million tons of food grains. They should also accept the prins.:!- plc that food aid should be channelled on the basis of objective assessment of requirements in the recipient countries. In this respect all count~·ics are urged to participate in the Global Infor~at10n and Farly Warning System on Food and Agnculture.

Developed countries should increase the grant component of food aid, where food is not at present provided as grants, and should accept mu_ltilateral channelling of these resources at an expamlmg rate. In providing food grains and financing on soft terms to developing countries in need of such assistance, developed countries and the World Food Pronramme should take due account of the interests of tl1c food-exportiag developing countries and should er~:rnrc that such assistance includes, wherever possible, purchases of food from the food-exporting developing countries.

Developed countries, and developing countries in a position to do so, should provide food grains and financial assistance on most favourable terms to the most seriously affected countries, to enable them to meet their food and agricultural development requirements within the constraints of their balance-of-payments position. Donor countries should also provide aid on soft terms, in cash and in kind, through bilateral and multilateral channels, to enable the most seriously affected countries to obtain their estimated requiremcn'.s of about I million tons of plant nutrients during 1975-1976.

Developed countries should carry out both their bilateral and multilateral food aid channelling in accordance with the procedures of the Principles of Surplus Disposal of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations so as to avoid causing undue fluctuations in market prices or t_he disruption of commercial markets for exports of mterest to exporting developing countries.

All countries should subscribe to the International Undertaking on World Food Security. They should build up and maintain world food-grain reserves, to be held nationally or regionally and strategically located in developed and developing, importing and exporting countries, large enough to cover foreseeable major production shortfalls. Intensive work should be continued on a priority basis in the World Food Council and other appropriate forums in order to determine, inter alia, the size of the required reserve, taking into account among other things the proposal made at the current session that the components of wheat and rice in the total reserve should be 30 million tons. The World Food Council should report to the General Assembly on this matter at its thirty-first session. Developed countries should assist developing countries in their efforts to build up and maintain their agreed shares of such reserves. Pending the establishment of the world food-grain reserve, developed countries and developing countries in a position to do so

should earmark stocks and/or funds to be placed at the disposal of the World Food Programme as an emergency reserve to strengthen the capacity of the Programme to deal with crisis situations in developing countries. The aim should be a target of not less than 500,000 tons.

Members of the General Assembly reaffirm their full support for the resolutions of the World Food Conference and call upon the World Food Council to monitor the implementation of the provisions under section V of the present resolution and to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-first session.

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Developed countries and the United Nations system are urged to provide, as and when requested, support and assistance to developing countries in strengthening and enlarging their mutual co-operation at subregional, regional and interregional levels. In this regard, suitable institutional arrangements within the United Nations development system should be made and, when appropriate, strengthened, such as those within the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the United Naticns Development Programme.

The Secretary-General, together with the relevant organizations of the United Nations system, is requested to continue to provide support to ongoing projects and activities, and to commission further studies through institutions in developing countries, which would take into account the material already avaihblc within the United Nations system, including in particular the regional commissions and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, ,:ml in accordance with existing subregional and regional arrang2rnents. These further studies, which should be submitted to the General Assembly at its thirty-first session, should, as a first step, cover:

Utilization of know-how, skills, natural resources, technology and funds available within developing countries for promotion of investments in industry, agriculture, transport and communications;

( b) Trade liberalization measures including payments and clearing arrangements, covering primary commodities, manufactured goods and services, such as banking, shipping, insurance and reinsurance;

( c) Transfer of technology.

These studies on co-operation among developing countries, together with other initiatives, would contribute to the evolution towards a system for the economic development of developing countries.

With a view to initiating the process of restructuring the United Nations system so as to make it more fully capable of dealing with problems of inter-

* national econumic co-oper.ition and development in a comprehensive and effective manner, in pursuance of General Assembly resolutions 3172 (XXVIII) of 17 December 1973 and 3343 (XXIX) of 17 December 197 4, and to make it more responsive to the requirements of the provisions of the Declaration and the Programme of Action on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order as well as those of the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States, an Ad Hoe Committee on the Restructuring of the Economic and Social Sectors of the United Nations System, which shall be a committee of the whole of the General Assembly open to the participation of all States, u; is hereby established to prepare detailed action propusals. The Ad l-loc Committee should start its work immediately and inform the General Assembly at its thirtieth session on the progress made, and submit its report to the Assembly at its thirty-first ses'.'ion, through the Economic and Scicial Council at its resumed session. The Ad Hoe Committee should take into account in its work, inter alia, the relevant proposals and documentation submitted in preparation for the seventh special session of the General Assembly pursuant to Assembly resolution 3343 (XXIX) and other relevant decisions, including the report of the Group of Experts on the Structure of the United Nations System entitled A New United Nations Structure for Global Economic Co-operation, 17 the records of the relevant deliberations of the Economic and Social Council, the Trade and Development Board, the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme and the seventh special sc~sion of the General Assembly, as well as the results of the forthcoming deliberations on institutional arrangements of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development at its fourth session and of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme at its fourth session. All United Nations organs, including the regional commissions, as well as the specialized agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency, are invited to participate at the executive level in the work of the Ad Hoe Committee and to respond to requests that the Committee may make to them for information, data or views.

The Economic and Social Council should meanwhile continue the process of rationalization and reform which it has undertaken in accordance with Council resolution 1768 (LIV) of 18 May 1973 and General Assembly resolution 3341

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of 17 December 1974, and should take into full consideration those recommendations of the Ad Hoe Committee that fall within the scope of these resolutions, at the latest at its resumed sixty-first session.

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