Multilateral Trade Negotiations

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 56United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, published in 1980.

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5 versions · 1973–1980

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1973A/RES/3040(XXVII)Multilateral trade negotiations

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Trade Agreements

What does this mandate say?

16 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms the right of land-locked developing countries to free access to and from the sea and their right to freedom of transit;

Calls upon all countries, international organizations and financial institutions urgently to implement the specific actions related to the particular needs and problems of land-locked developing countries envisaged in resolutions 63 (III), 98 (N) and 123 (V) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and in other relevant resolutions adopted by the United Nations;

Notes with regret that the assistance given thus far falls far short of the needs of the land-locked developing countries;

Urges all donor countries as well as the international organizations concerned to provide land-locked developing countries with appropriate financial aid and assistance in the form of grants or concessional loans for the construction, improvement and maintenance of their transport and transit infrastructures and facilities;

164 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Third Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.73.II.D.4), annex I.A.

165 Ibid., Fourth Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.76.II.D.10 and corrigendum), part one, sect. A.

168 Ibid., Fifth Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.79.II.D.14), part one, sect. A.

Commends the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and other related agencies within the United Nations system for the work and assistance they have provided to the landlocked developing countries;

Invites the United Nations Development Programme and the financial institutions of the United Nations system to take appropriate and effective measures in order to provide additional resources within their spheres of competence to meet the particular needs of the land-locked developing countries;

Invites the Preparatory Committee for the New International Development Strategy to take fully into account, in the formulation of the strategy for the third United Nations development decade, the special problems relating to land-locked developing countries;

Further invites the international community to give financial support to interested transit and landlocked developing countries in the construction of alternate routes to the sea;

Recommends intensified activities relating to the conducting of necessary studies and the implementation of special actions and action programmes, including those under "economic co-operation among developing countries", as well as those under the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, at the regional and subregional levels, in co-operation with the regional commissions.

34/ 199.

Multilateral trade negotiations

Takes note of the note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on the multilateral trade negotiations;110 2.

Takes note also of the report of the Director- General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade on the multilateral trade negotiations;171 3.

Notes with deep concern that the developed countries which are contracting parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade did not take fully into account in all areas of negotiation in the multilateral trade negotiations the interests and concerns of developing countries, especially the least developed countries;

Notes with particular concern that the negotiations aimed at establishing an improved legal framework for the conduct of international trade more responsive to the needs and aspirations of developing countries had disappointing results;

Affirms that the interests and rights of developing countries must be fully safeguarded and preserved in the process of implementation of the results of the multilateral trade negotiations;

Urges that the negotiations on the safeguards code should be speedily concluded to provide for greater discipline and fair and non-discriminatory rules for the use of safeguard measures, with a view to contributing significantly to meeting the main concerns of the developing countries and enabling those countries to participate in the results of the multilateral trade negotiations on an equitable basis;

Reiterates the need for undertaking negotiations on a systematic basis for the elimination of quantitative restrictions and other non-tariff as well as tariff barriers against the exports of the developing countries and until the objectives and commitments undertaken in the Tokyo Declaration, including, inter alia, the need for preferential and special treatment in favour of developmg countries and explicit recognition of the principle of non-reciprocity, are achieved;

Requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to pre- 168 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Fifth Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.79.11.D.14), part one, sect. A.

169 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirtyfourth Session, Supplement No. 15 (A/34/lS and Corr.I), vol. II, part two, annex I, decision 201 (XIX).

170 A/34/443.

111 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, The Tokyo Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Report by the Director-General of GA.TT (Sales No. GATT/1979-3); transmitted to the members of the General Assembly by a note of the Secretary-General (A/34/4I8 and Corr.I). pare, in conformity with decision 132 (V) of the Conference, a comprehensive report on the results of _the multilateral trade negotiations in the light o~ the obJ~ctives and commitments of the Tokyo Declaration, placing special emphasis on those sectors in which the results obtained have not fully responded to the interests and concerns of developing countries, for submission to the Trade and Development Board at its twentieth session, for the purpose of undertaking a global evaluation of such negotiations and with a vi~w to identifying J?Oss_ible courses of action for the attainment of the ob1ect1ves pursued by developing countries in those negotiations;

Recommends that the United Nations Development Programme should favourably consider requests for technical assistance to be given to developing countries, including for regional and interregional projects, in order to provide them with the full benefit of the results of the multilateral trade negotiations and recommends that negotiations should continue to be conducted effectively in the future, upon the request of those countries.

34/200. Development aspects of the reverse transfer of technology

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