Co-Ordination of Results of Scientific Research

A/RES/1260(XIII)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1959.

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Requests the Secretary-General, in co-operation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the other specialized agencies

concerned with the peaceful application of science, as well as the International Atomic Energy Agency, to arrange for a survey to be made on the main trends of inquiry in the field of the natural sciences and the dissemination and application for peaceful ends of such scientific knowledge, and on the steps which might be taken by the United Nations, the specialized agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency towards encouraging the concentration of such efforts upon the most urgent problems, having regard to the needs of the various countries; and requests the Secretary-General, in arranging for such a survey, to take into account the report of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to be prepared in response to Economic and Social Council resolution 695 (XXVI);

Invites the above-mentioned organizations to cooperate with the Secretary-General in this connexion;

Further requests the Secretary-General to submit this survey to the Economic and Social Council at its thirtieth session for comment and any appropriate recommendations ;

Requests the Economic and Social Council to transmit this survey to the General Assembly, together with its comments and recommendations.

14 November 1958.

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