Report of the Trade and Development Board

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 82bTrade and development, published in 1989.

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7 versions · 1975–1990

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11 topics

Commodity Agreements Development Strategies East-South Trade Guidelines Interdependence International Decades International Economic Relations International Instruments International Trade Multilateral Trade Negotiations Recommendations

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Takes note of the report of the Trade and Developl. ment Board on the second part of its thirty-fourth session,29 and the first part of its thirty-fifth session;30 2.

Welcomes the review of the implementation of the guidelines contained in the annex to Board resolution 222

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of27 September 198031 undertaken by the Board at its thirty-fifth session and urges the Governments concerned to implement fully the relevant provisions contained in Board resolution 358 (XXXV) of 5 October 1988;32 3.

Urges ali Governments, bearing in mind their particular contributions, commensurate with their economic weight, and their commitments as embodied in the Final Act,27 to give full and prompt etfect to the policies and measures agreed to therein through continuing action, individually and collectively and in competent international organizations, in pursuit of the objective of revitalizing development, growth and international trade;

Requests the Board, in accordance with its mandate, to keep under review the implementation of the relevan! provisions of the Final Act;

Welcomes the contribution ofthe Board to intergovernmental discussions on the interdependence of economic issues and policies, particularly in the interrelated areas oftrade, money, finance, debt, commodities and development, and notes the etforts under way to enhance the outcome of the Board's debates on interdependence, as well as the substantive linkages with other discussions on related questions in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and other organizations;

Stresses that it is important that the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations respond positively to the interests and concerns of ali parties thereto, in accordance with its objectives, and that it promote growth and development, particularly in developing countries;

Invites the Board to continue to follow closely developments and issues in the Uruguay Round that are of particular concern to the developing countries;

Notes that the Board has been requested to review and study, in depth, developments in the international trading system; in doing so it could, respecting the principies of most-favoured-nation treatment and nondiscrimination, make recommendations on principies and policies related to international trade and make proposals as to the strengthening and improvement of the trading system, with a view to giving it a more universal and dynamic character, as well as to making it more responsive to the needs of developing countries and supportive of accelerated economic growth and development, particularly of developing countries;

Notes also the imminent entry into force of the Agreement Establishing the Common Fund for Commodities33 and invites the ratifying States, with the active support of the secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, to take the necessary action to bring the Common Fund into operation at an early date as an important and useful instrument of international co-operation on commodities;

Takes note of Board decision 356 (XXXIV) of 10 May 1988 containing agreed conclusions regarding trade relations among countries having ditferent economic and social systems, urges the Board to elaborate further a programme for the promotion of trade and economic cooperation among countries having ditferent economic and social systems, in particular East-South trade, and requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, in his consultations referred to in paragraph 105 (2 7) of the Final Act, to seek ways and means of broadening and strengthening intersystem trade relations, in particular East-South trade;

Invites the Board to contribute etfectively to the preparations for the international development strategy for the fourth United Nations development decade, in close co-operation with the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole for the Preparation of the International Development Strategy for the Fourth United Nations Development Decade.

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