Establishment of a United Nations Capital Development Fund

A/RES/2042(XX)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1966.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 1961–1966

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1966	A/RES/2042(XX)	Establishment of a United Nations capital development fund	643	19%Compare
1964	A/RES/1936(XVIII)	Establishment of a United Nations capital development fund	272	11%Compare
1962	A/RES/1706(XVI)	Establishment of a United Nations capital development fund	163	8%Compare
1961	A/RES/1521(XV)	Establishment of a United Nations capital development fund	305	–

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5 subjects

Development Assistance Development Finance Establishment Foreign Direct Investment Funds

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms the need for extending United Nations economic assistance to the field of investment activities in the developing countries;

Urges the economically advanced countries to undertake measures designed to ensure the beginning of the operations of a United Nations capital development fund at an early date;

Requests the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme to consider, at its second meeting in 1966. the ways and means for an effective implementation of the recommendation con-

3 See Proceedings of the Umted Nations Conference on Trade and Development, vol. I, Final Act and Report (United Nations publication, Sales No.: 64.II.B.11), p. 47.

4 Official Records of the Economic and Social COU11cil, Thirtyseventh Session, Annexes, agenda item 101 document E/3947.

5 Official Records of the General Assemoly, Twentieth Session, Annexes, agenda item 39, document A/5748.

tained in annex A.IV.8 of the Final Act of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, bearing in mind the provisions of section III of · General Assembly resolution 1219 (XII) and part C of Assembly resolution 1240 (XIII);

Invites the Secretary-General to undertake consultations with the Member States regarding the additional resources which should be obtained through voluntary contributions with a view to initiating activities of investment proper ;

Decides to extend the mandate of the Committee on a United Nations Capital Development Fund so as to enable it to carry out the tasks envisaged in General Assembly resolutions 1826 (XVII) and 1936 (XVIII),

taking into account the results of the work of the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme, as well as the results of the Secretary- General's consultations with the Member States;

Further instructs the Committee to make new efforts with a view to reaching a large measure of agreement on the draft legislation (statute) of the United Nations capital development fund, bearing also in mind the alternative proposals for starting operations through a gradual transformation of the United Nations Development Programme ;

Requests the Committee to submit its report to the Economic and Social Council at its forty-first session, for transmission, together with the Council's comments, to the General Assembly at its twenty-first session for necessary action.

8 December 1965.

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