International Cooperation in the Application of Science and Technology to Economic and Social Development

A/RES/1944(XVIII)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1964.

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4 subjects

Economic Development Science and Technology Social Development Training and Research Institutions

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Expresses its appreciation for the efforts and achievements of the United Nations Conference on the Application of Science and Technology for the Benefit of the Less Developed Areas;

Welcomes the statements on the subject by the Secretary-General in his report18 and his address to the Economic and Social Council on the follow-up to th~ Conference,17 as well as the action taken by the Ad- !11-inistrative Committee_ on Co-ordination in creating an inter-agency _s?b-comm1ttee on science and technology, and the dec1s1on taken by the Council in resolution 980 A (XXXVI) of 1 August 1963 to seek to intensify practical efforts in this field by establishing an Advisory Committee on the Application of Science and Technology to Development ;

Requests the Advisory Committee on the Application of Science and Technology to Development to examine, in keeping with its terms of reference the possibility of establishing a programme on intern.a~ tional co-operation in science and technology for economic and social development, in which scientists and technicians of the highly developed countries would as a matter of priority, help to study the problems of the developing countries and explore suitable solutions

having regard to limitations upon the material resource~ HI Ibid., Thirty-sixth Session, Annexes, agenda item 15, document E/3772.

17 Ibid., Thirty-sixth Session, 1271st meeting.

and trained personnel currently available to the developing countries ;

Further requests the Secretary-General to consult States Members of the United Nations and members of the specialized agencies and of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in particular those which have achieved a high level of scientific and technological development, concerning their views on the nature and scope of such a programme and on the measures they envisage undertaking in this regard, and to communicate these views to the Advisory Committee;

Invites the Administrative Committee on Coordination to present .to the Advisory Committee, through the Secretary-General, the comments of its Sub-Committee on Science and Technology on the assistance which the participating organizations, including the regional Pconomic commissions, might render within the fr::imework of such a programme:

Recommends that the Advisory Committee should envisage, in connexion with such a programme, the possibilities of:

Mobilizing the efforts of universities and scientific and technological institutions of the developed countries for active participation in such a programme;

( b) Creating and strengthening, with the aid of the highly developed countries, national and regional institutes for scientific and technological research and training in the developing areas of the world;

( c) Obtaining the human, technical and financial resources required for the execution of such a programme;

Requests the Advisory Committee to report to the Economic and Social Council at its summer session in 1%5.

11 December 1963.

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