Recognizes the important role that the United Nations Children's Fund is in a position to play in helping to achieve the objectives of the Second United Nations Development Decade, having regard to the decisive contribution that the present generation of children could make towards the future achievement of the economic, social and cultural progress of the developing countries;
2
Endorses the policies and programmes of the United Nations Children's Fund to aid countries to protect and prepare the younger generation within the larger context of national development;
3
Commends, in this connexion:
a
The emphasis that the United Nations Children's Fund is placing on the "country approach", whereby aid is given on the basis of the priorities of the developing countries concerned;
( b) The increased attention being given by the United Nations Children's Fund to the promotion of integrated services for children within comprehensive social and economic development schemes;
( c) The growing support being provided by the United Nations Children's Fund in the training of national personnel of the developing countries, particularly within their own environment and at the middle and lower levels;
4
Recognizes that the United Nations Children's Fund would be in a position to meet more of the vast unsatisfied needs of children and young people if more resources were available to it;
5
Appeals to States Members of the United Nations and other donors to make every effort to increase their contributions to the United Nations Children's Fund.
15 December 1969.
19 Appointed by the Commission on Human Rights under its 22 Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-fourth resolutions 7 (XXIII) and 3 (XXIV).
Sess.ion, Supplement No. 3 (A/7603 and Corr.I), chapter XI,
20 E/CN.4/979 and Add.I and Add.1/Corr.l and Add.2-8.
section B.
28 British and Foreign State Papers, vol. 144 (1952), p. 1072 (Declaration of St. J ames's).
24 U.S. Department of State Bulletin (Washington, D.C.), vol. IX, No. 228, p. 310 (Moscow Declaration on German Atrocities).
