Establishment of the United Nations Organization for Industrial Development

A/RES/2089(XX)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1966.

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Appointment of Members Establishment Financing Geographical Distribution Industrial Development Members Work Organization

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11 operative paragraphs

Decides to establish within the United Nations an autonomous organization for the promotion of industrial development to be known as the United Nations Organization for T ndustrial Development :

Decides that the administrative and research activities of this organization shall be financed from the United Nations regular budget, and its operational activities shall be financed from voluntary contributions to it by Governments of the States Members of tlw United Nations and members of the specialized agencies and of the International Atomic Energy Agency, as well as through participation in the United Nations Development P,ogramme on the .snme has is as other participating organizations:

Decides that the principal organ of the organization shall be the Industrial Development Board;

Requests the Secretary-General to make arrnngements, in accordance with Article 101 of the Charter of the United Nations, for the immediate establishment of an adequate, permanent and full-time secretariat, as a part of the organization, which will avail itself of the other appropriate facilitirs of the Secretariat of thr United Nations;

Decides that the secretariat of the organization shall be headed bv an Executive Director, who shall he appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations and whose appointment shall be confirmed hy tlw General Assembly:

Decides to set up an Ad H oc Committee on tlw United Nations Organization for Industrial Development, composed of thirty-six States M rmbers of the United Nations aml members of the specialized agrncif's

30 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Cn,mril. Thirty-sixth Session, S11pplemr11t No. 14 (E/3781), annex Vll l.

31 See Proceedings of the United Nations Co11fere11CP Trade and Development, vol. T. Final Act and Report (Pnit, Nations publication, Sales No.: 64.U.B.11), p. 'J4.

~2 Official Rrcords of thl' General AssPmbly, Twrntirl/, ',,•scion. Annr:res, agenda item 40. doc11ment A/5826.

and of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and chosen in accordance with the principle of equitable geographical representation, to prepare the necessary operating procedures and administrative arrangements of the organization established under paragraphs 1 to 5 above, taking into account the reports of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly,83 a note by the Secretary-General,34 the reports of the Committee for Industrial Development35 and the relevant views expressed in that Committee, in the Economic and Social Council, at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and in the General Assembly, and to report thereon to the Committee for Industrial Development at its sixth session, to the Economic and Social Council at its forty-first session and to the General Assembly at its twenty-first session;

Decides to review, in the light of experience, the effectiveness and further evolution of these institutional arrangements with a view to deciding upon such changes and improvements as might be necessary in order to meet fully the growing need~ in the field of industrial development;

Notes with satisfaction that the Secretary-General has, pursuant to Economic and Social Council resolution 1081 E (XXXIX) of 30 July 1965, provided a substantial increase in the budget of the Centre for Industrial Development with a view to carrying out its existing and expanding functions ;

Expresses its appreciation of the work done by the Centre for Industrial Development since its establishment and the efforts made by the Commissioner for Industrial Development in the field of industrialization, within the limited possibilities of the resources at his disposal ;

Expresses its satisfaction at the decisions taken by the Economic and Social Council at its thirty-ninth session on the holding of international and regional symposia on industrial development;

Requests the Secretary-General, in preparing the organization of the symposia, to take into account the decisions embodied in the present resolution.

20 December 1965.

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ARGENT1NA,

AUSTRALIA,

BRAZIL,

CHAD,

COLOMBIA, COSTA RICA, CUBA,

CZECHOSLOVAKIA,

FEDERAL REPUBT.IC OF GERMANY, FINLAND, FRANCE, GUINEA, INDIA, ITALY, JAPAN, JORDAN, LIBYA, MEXICO, NETHERLANDS, NIGERIA, PAKISTAN, PERU, PHILIPPINES, Ro:vrANJA, SPAIN, SUDAN. SWEDEN, SYRIA, THAILAND, TUNISIA, UGANDA, UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS, UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, UNITED REPUBLIC OF T ANZANTA, UNITF:n STATES OF AMERICA and Yur.os1.AvTA.

34 A/C.2/L.794.

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