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Specific Action Related to the Particular Needs and Problems of Land-Locked Developing Countries

A/RES/36/175No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 69Development and international economic cooperation, published in 1982.

What other versions does this mandate have?

7 versions · 1980–1990
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/44/214
  • 1990A/RES/44/214Specific action related to the particular needs and problems of land-locked developing countriesLatestCompare with previous version
  • 1988A/RES/42/174Specific action related to the particular needs and problems of land-locked developing countriesCompare with previous version
  • 1986A/RES/40/183Specific action related to the particular needs and problems of land-locked developing countriesCompare with previous version
  • 1985A/RES/39/209Specific action related to the particular needs and problems of land-locked developing countriesCompare with previous version
  • 1982A/RES/36/175Specific action related to the particular needs and problems of land-locked developing countriesCompare 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?

1 topic
Landlocked Developing Countries

What does this mandate say?

8 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;
Appeals to all States, international organizations and financial institutions to implement, as a matter of urgency and priority, the specific actions related to the particular needs and problems of land-locked developing countries envisaged in resolutions 63 (III), 98 (IV) and 123 (V) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, in the International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade, in the Substantial New Programme of Action for the 1980s for the least developed countries73 and in other relevant resolutions of the United Nations;
3
Urges all donor countries, as well as others in a position to do so, and the international organizations concerned, to provide land-locked developing countries with appropriate financial and technical assistance in the form of grants or concessional loans for the construction and improvement of their transport and transit infrastructures and facilities;
4
Urges also the international community and multilateral and bilateral financial institutions to intensify efforts in raising the net flow of resources to land-locked developing countries to help offset the adverse effects of their disadvantageous geographical situation on their economic development efforts, in keeping with the over-all development needs of each land-locked developing country;
5
Invites the transit countries to co-operate effectively with the land-locked developing countries in harmonizing transport planning and promoting other joint ventures in the field of transport at the regional, subregional and bilateral levels;
6
Commends the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and other United Nations agencies for their work and the assistance they have provided to the land-locked developing countries and invites them to continue to take appropriate and effective measures to respond to the specific needs of those countries;
7
Invites the international community to give financial support to interested transit and land-locked developing countries in the construction of alternative routes to the sea;
8
Recommends continued and intensified activities relating to the conducting of necessary studies and the implementation of special actions and action programmes for the land-locked developing countries, including those in the area of economic co-operation among developing countries, as well as those that have been envisaged in the programme of work of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the regional commissions and other programmes and activities at the regional and subregional levels.
/03rd plenary meeting
17 December 1981

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