Assistance for the Reconstruction, Recovery, Rehabilitation and Development of Mauritania

A/RES/40/219View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1986.

What subjects does this mandate have?

13 subjects

Budget Contributions Desertification Development Assistance Disaster Relief Drought-Stricken Areas Economic Assistance Intergovernmental Organizations International Financial Institutions Least Developed Countries Mauritania Non-Governmental Organizations Specialized Agencies Trust Funds

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

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Also expresses its apprecia:ion to the countries, organizations of the United Nations system, other international organizations, the community commission, voluntary agencies and individuals whose generous assistance to the stricken population of Mauritania has never failed;

Appeals urgently to all Member States, specialized agencies and other United Nations bodies, as well as to in_ternational economic and financial institutions, to contnbute generously, through bilateral or multilateral channels, towards meeting Mauritania's reconstruction, recovery, rehabilitation and development needs;

Invites the Economic and Social Council to request the Committee for Development Planning to examine, on a priority basis, the socio-economic situation of Mauritania and to consider including it in the list of the least developed countries;

Requests Member States, as well as United Nations programmes and organizations, to take special measures for Mauritania for the remainder of the Third United Nations Development Decade, pending examination of its situation by the Committee for Development Planning;

Invites the United Nations Development Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the International Labour Organisation and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to maintain their current programmes and expand their future programmes of assistance and to report periodically to the Secretary-General on the steps they have taken and the resources they have made available to help Mauritania so that the General Assembly may consider them at its forty-first session;

Requests the Secretary-General:

To continue his efforts to mobilize international assistance for Mauritania and to ensure that the appropriate arrangements are made in order to establish an effective programme of special assistance;

To open a special account under the United Nations Trust Fund for Special Economic Assistance Programmes, in order to facilitate payments of contributions for Mauritania, and urges Member States, non-governmental organizations and individuals to contribute generously to this account;

To keep the situation in Mauritania constantly under review, to maintain contact with Member States, specialized agencies, regional and intergovernmental organizations and international financial institutions concerned, and to apprise the Economic and Social Council, at its second regular session of 1986, of the volume of economic assistance granted to Mauritania;

To report on the progress achieved in remedying the economic situation of Mauritania and on the international assistance granted to the country in time for the matter to be considered by the General Assembly at its forty-first session.

l44AJ36/261; A/361739; A/37/12:1 and Add.I: A/38/213; A/39/l92, scct III.

145 See AIC.214013.

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

What subjects does this mandate have?

What’s in this document?

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