Endorses Economic and Social Council resolution 1083 (XXXIX) of 30 July 1965, in which the Council warmly commended the Advisory Committee on the Application of Science and Technology to Development for its second report, 14 approved the plans of the Advisory Committee for the next phase of its work and transmitted to the General Assembly the second report as an exposition of the steps that must be taken to achieve the ohjectiws envisaged in Assembly resolution J<J44 (XVIII);
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Also endorse.!> the views of the Advis-ory Committee that:
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1 t would be not only possible, but highly desirable, to develop a programme of the kind envisaged in resolution 1944 (XVIII) in order to strengthen existing programn1es and to adcl appropriate new arrangements for rounding out the total effort, and also designed to draw the attention of workl opinion lo the work of the Adwsory Committee;
( b) The Economic and Social Council itself should he the appropriate body, under the authority of the (;eneral Assembly, to initiate ancl guide the programme, through its links with organizations in the United :\Jations family, the regional economic commissions and non-governmental organizations. and through the cooperation of the States iVIembers of the United Nations and members of the specialized agencies ancl of the fnternational Atomic Energy Agency;
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Commends the comprehensive proposals and suggestions, made by the Advisory Committee in chapter IV of its second report, to the attention of States lVIembers of the United Nations and members of the specialized agencies and of the International Atomic Energy Agency, all organizations of the United Nations family concerned with the application of science and technology to development and to :ill similarly interested non-governmental organizations;
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Invitesthe Advisory Committee, as its programme of work evolves and in the light of its second report, to continue to examine in more detail the needs and possibilities ,,i1d, where appropriate, the role of the United Nations family in relation to:
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The establishment of national policies for the application of science and technology to development by developing countries ;
( b) The establishment or strengthening of institutions for scientific and technological research in the developing countries, and of co-operative arrangements among such institutions, especially on a regional basis, with a view to the widest dissemination of the possibilities of applying scientific and technical knowledge to development :
( c) The more extensive undertaking, by appropriate institutions in the highly developed countries, of researth on problems of special concern to the developing countr~es;
( d) The encouragement of co-operative links between universities, research institutes, laborntories and similar institutions in the highly developed countries and those in the developing countries.
