Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s

A/RES/53/182View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 93e Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s, published in 1999.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 1992–2000

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/54/235

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2000	A/RES/54/235	Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s	—	—
1999	A/RES/53/182	Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s	564	18%Compare
1998	A/RES/52/187	Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s	698	4%Compare
1996	A/RES/50/103	Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s	10,510	7%Compare
1994	A/RES/48/171	Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s	1,655	—

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Civil Society Conferences Extrabudgetary Financing Least Developed Countries Participants Programmes of Action Public Information Resident Coordinators

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

Welcomes and accepts the generous offer of the European Union to host the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries in the first semester of the year 2001;

Designates the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development as the Secretary-General of the Conference, and requests him to make all necessary preparations for the Conference;

Decides to convene the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries in the first semester of the year 2001 for a duration of seven days, at a venue and time to be determined by the Secretary-General of the Conference in consultation with the European Union;

Requests the Secretary-General of the Conference to organize the intergovernmental preparatory committee (in two parts) and the three expert-level preparatory meetings referred to in paragraph 1 (b) of resolution 52/187;

Also requests the Secretary-General of the Conference, in consultation with Member States and in cooperation with relevant organizations and agencies, to organize well-focused sectoral and thematic or, where appropriate, country-specific round-table meetings during the Conference to contribute to the work of the Conference;

Calls upon the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank to link the forthcoming round-table and consultative group meetings to the preparatory process of the Conference, and to ensure that they make substantive contributions to the Conference;

Requests the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, in his capacity as Convenor of the United Nations Development Group, to ensure the full involvement in the preparations for the Conference of United Nations resident coordinators and country teams in the least developed countries;

Calls upon the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in consultation with the Secretary-General of the Conference, to convene an inter-agency meeting to ensure the full mobilization and coordination of all relevant organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, as well as other relevant institutions, for the purpose of preparations for and follow-up to the Conference;

Invites the Secretary-General of the Conference to make arrangements, on the basis of consultations with Member States, to facilitate the involvement of civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, in the preparatory process and the Conference;

Decides to defray the cost of participation of two government representatives from each least developed country in the intergovernmental preparatory committee meetings and the Conference itself through the use of extrabudgetary resources and, should those resources prove to be insufficient, to consider all other options;

Requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations, with the assistance of concerned organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, including the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat, to take necessary measures to intensify their public information efforts and other relevant initiatives to enhance public awareness in favour of the Conference, its objectives and its significance;

Also requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations to submit a report to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session on the state of preparations for the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries.

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