United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

A/RES/1785(XVII)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1963.

What other versions does this mandate have?

8 versions · 1963–1982

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/36/145

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1982	A/RES/36/145	United Nations Conference on Trade and Development	1,456	15%Compare
1980	A/RES/35/60	United Nations Conference on Trade and Development	570	—
1973	A/RES/2904(XXVII)A-B	United Nations Conference on Trade and Development	—	—
1970	A/RES/2570(XXIV)	United Nations Conference on Trade and Development	774	17%Compare
1969	A/RES/2402(XXIII)	United Nations Conference on Trade and Development	916	16%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Appointment of Officials Export Diversification International Trade Members Participants Trade Financing Trade in Commodities

What’s in this document?

17 operative paragraphs

Endorses the decision of the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 917 (XXXIV) to convene a United Nations Conference on Trade and Development;

Recommends the Economic and Social Council at its resumed thirty-fourth session :

To enlarge by twelve members the Preparatory Committee provided for by the Council in resolution 917 (XXXIV), with due regard to equitable geographical distribution and to an adequate representation of developing and major trading countries; General A .. embly-Seventeenth Seseion

( b) To convene the first session of the Committee by January 1963 so that the Committee will be able to submit an interim report to the Council at its thirtyfifth session ;

To convene the resumed session of the Committee immediately after the thirty-fifth session of the Council so that the Committee will be able to report to the Council at its thirty-sixth session;

Recommends further the Economic and Social Council to convene, after consideration of the preparatory work, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, as soon as possible after the thirtysixth session of the Council to be held in July 1963, but in no event later than early 1964, taking into account the view expressed by a large number of delegations tbat the Conference should be convened not later than September 1963 as well as the view of other delegations that the Conference should be held in early 1964;

Requests the Secretary-General:

To invite all States Members of the United Nations and members of the specialized agencies and of the International Atomic Energy Agency to take part in the Conference ;

( b) To appoint a secretary-general of the Conference ;

( c) To assist the Preparatory Committee by providing the necessary documentation in connexion with the Conference, on the lines indicated in Economic and Social Council resolution 917 (XXXIV) and in the discussions at the seventeenth session of the General Assembly;

Recommends the Economic and Social Council and the Preparatory Committee, in drawing up the draft agenda of the Conference referred to in paragraph 3 above, to take into consideration the following fundamental points :

The need for increasing the trade of <leveloping countries in primary commodities as welt as in semimanufactured and manufactured goods so as to ensure a rapid expansion of their export earnings and, for that purpose, to examine the possibility of taking measures and reformulating principles with a view to :

( i) Increasing trade between the developing and developed countries, irrespective of the differences in the foreign trade systems of the latter ;

Intensifying trade relations among the developing countries ;

iii

Diversifying the trade of developing countries ;

Financing the international trade of developing countries;

( b) Measures for ensuring stable, eqnitable and remunerative prices and the rising demand for exports of developing countries, including, inter alia:

( i) The stabilization of prices of primary commodities at equitable and remunerative levels;

The increase in consumption of products imported from primary-producing countries and of semi-manufactured and manufactured goods imported from developing countries ;

iii

International commodity agreements;

International compensatory financing;

( c) Measures leading to the gradual removal of tariff, non-tariff or other trade barriers by industrialized countries, whether individually or collectively, which

have an adverse effect on the exports of developing countries and on the expansion of international trade in general;

Methods and machinery to implement measures relating to the expansion of international trade, including:

( i) A reappraisal of the effectiveness of the existing international bodies dealing with international trade in meeting trade problems of developing countries, including a consideration of the develment of trade relations among countries with uneven levels of economic development and/or d_ifferent systems of economic organization and trade;

The advisability of eliminating overlapping and duplication by co-ordination or consolidation of the activities of such bodies, of creating conditions for expanded membership and of effecting such other organizational improvements and initiatives as may be needed, so as to maximize the beneficial results of trade for the promotion of economic development.

8 December 1962.

The right of peoples and nations to permanent sovereignty over their natural wealth and resources must be exercised in the interest of their national development and of the wellbeing of the people of the State concerned.

The exploration, development and disposition of such resources, as well as the import of the foreign capital required for these purposes, should be in conformity with the rules and conditions which the peoples and nations freely consider to be necessary or desirable with regard to the authorization, restriction or prohibition of such activities.

In cases where authorization is granted, the capital imported and the earnings on that capital shall be governed hy the terms thereof, by the national legislation in force, and by international law. The profits derived must be shared in the proportions freely agreed upon, in each case, between the investors and the recipient State, due care being taken to ensure that there is no impairment, for any reason, of that State's sovereignty over its natural wealth and resources.

Nationalization, expropriation or requisitioning shall be based on grounds or reasons of public utility, security or the national interest which are recognized as overriding purely individual or private interests, both domestic and foreign. In such cases the owner shall be paid appropriate compensation, in accordance with the rules in force in the State taking such measures in the exercise of its sovereignty and in accordance with international law. In any case where the question of compensation gives rise to a controversy, the national jurisdiction of the State taking such measures shall be exhausted. However, upon agreement by sovereign States and other parties concerned, settlement of the dispute should be made through arbitration or international adjudication.

The free and 1Jeneficial exercise of the sovereignty of peoples and nations over their natural resources must be furthered by the mutual respect of States based on their sovereig-n equality.

International co-operation for the economic development of developing countries, \\·hethcr in the form of public or private capital investments, exchange of goods and services, technical assistance, or exchange of scientific in formation, shall be such as to further their independent national development and shall he based upon respect for their sovereignty over their natural wealth and resources.

Violation of the rights of peoples and nations to sovereignty over their natural wealth and resources is contrary

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

What other versions does this mandate have?

What subjects does this mandate have?

What’s in this document?

Table of contents