World Social Situation

Recommends that the Governments of the developing countries should take all necessary steps with a view of the ends to be attained and without such for economic development, as well as for progress and social justice ;

Invites the Economic and Social Council to consider effective means of trauslating the social objectives of the Decade into concrete realities;

Invites Governments of developing countries to prepare specific targets to be achieved in the major social sectors during the second half of the Decade, to integrate those targets with economic plans, programmes or projections for the s.-ime period, and to set forth the volume and types of the external resources that will be required to achieve these social goals, taking into account similar proRrammes in other countries and the advantages of regional and international cooperation;

Requests the ·secretary-General to prepare in so far as is feasible, for submission to the Economic and Social Council in 1%5, a draft programme of social development for the second half of the Decade, to cover not only priorities of international action in the social field but also major targets of social development to be achieved in the different less developed regions by the end of the Decade, and methods of implementation,

Further requests the Secretary-General to undertake far-reaching studies, covering the various regions and countries with different social systems, of basic problems in the social field and measures adopted for their solution, with a view tu incorporating the results of these studies in future reports on the world social situation;

Invites the co-operation of the specialized agencies concerned, the functional commissions and committees of the Economic and Social Council, the regional economic commissions, the regional development pLming insLitntes aml the United ~ations Research Institute for Social Development in these endeavours;

Requests the competent bodies of the United Nations to continue and to exttuJ the facilities granted for the training abroad of national cadres, and to promote and encour.-ige the local 2.nd regional tr.-iining of cadres of the higher .-ind intermediate levels, in order that the indigenous populatiom, may participate with increasing skill in social and economic development;