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

A/RES/40/183No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 84cTrade and development, published in 1986.

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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

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16 topics

Access to the Sea Development Assistance Economic Cooperation Among Developing Countries Financial Assistance Financial Flows International Financial Institutions International Organizations Joint Ventures Landlocked Developing Countries Programme Implementation Regional Commissions Technical Cooperation Transit Transit Countries Transport Infrastructure Transport Planning

What does this mandate say?

10 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms the right of access of land-locked countries to and from the sea and freedom of transit

through the territory of transit States by all means of transport, in accordance with article 125 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea;

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), 123 (V) and 137

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 Countries42 and in other relevant resolutions of the United Nations;

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

Urges also the international community and multilateral and bilateral financial institutions to intensify efforts in raising the net flow of resources to all land-locked developing countries to help offset the adverse effects of their disadvantageous geographical situation on their economic development efforts, in keeping with the overall development needs of each land-locked developing country;

Invites transit countries and the land-locked developing countries to co-operate effectively in harmonizing transport planning and in promoting other joint ventures in the field of transport at the regional, subregional and bilateral levels;

Further invites the international community to give financial, technical and other support to interested transit and land-locked developing countries in the construction of alternative routes to the sea;

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 landlocked developing countries, and invites them to continue to take appropriate and effective measures to respond to the specific needs of those countries;

Recommends continued and intensified activities relating to the conducting of necessary studies and the implementation of special actions and specific measures 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;

Once again requests Member States to transmit to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development their views and comments on the report of the Ad Hoe Group of Experts to Study Ways and Means of Improving Transit-transport Infrastructures and Services for Land-locked Developing Countries:

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Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General of the Pnited Nations Conference on Trade and Development on progress in the implementation of specific action related to the particular needs and problems of landlocked developing countries,4' submitted pursuant to resol.ution 39 '20Q, and requests him to prepare another such

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