Report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on Its 3rd Session

A/RES/3041(XXVII)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1973.

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4 versions · 1973–1984

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/38/155

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1984	A/RES/38/155	Report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on its sixth session	—	—
1980	A/RES/34/196	Report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on its 5th session	2,082	9%Compare
1977	A/RES/31/159	Report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on its 4th session	377	6%Compare
1973	A/RES/3041(XXVII)	Report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on its 3rd session	2,693	–

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7 subjects

International Monetary System International Trade Multilateral Trade Negotiations Recommendations Trade Agreements Trade in Commodities Trade Liberalization

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Recalling its resolutions 1995 (XIX) of 30 December 1964, 2570 (XXIV) of 13 December 1969, 2626 (XXV) of 24 October 1970 and 2725 (XXV) of 15 December 1970,

Recalling further resolution 2820 (XXVI) of 16 December 1971, in which it laid down the objectives for the third session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and dccidd to consider the results of that session as a matter of high priority,

Recalling in particular section II of its resolution 2820 (XXVI) on a comprehensive review of the institutional arrangements of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development with a view to imprm ing the efficiency of its operations, and on the essential role of the Conference to review and appraise, within its field of competence, the progress achieved in the implementation of the International Development Strategy for the Second Nations Development Decadc,104

Having considered the report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on its third

session10;; held at Santiago, Chile, from 13 April to 21 May 1972, and the report of the Trade and Development Board for the period 22 September 1971 to 25 October 1972,10G

Considering that at its third session the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development was able to take cognizance of, and to start to act upon, major developments in the trade and monetary fields and that the final meaning of that session will depend to a large extent on follow-up action to implement the resolutions

adopted and to reach agreement on those important issues that remained unsolved,

Emphasizing the significant part that the permanent machinery of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has to play in the field of trade and development and that its effectiveness depends considerably upon the political will of the Governments of all Member States, in particular those of developed countries, to find ~olutions to the development problems of the world,

Takes note of the report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on its third session and the report of the Trade and Development Board for the period 22 September 1971 to 25 October 1972;

Welcomes resolution 82 (III) of 20 May 1972 on multilateral trade negotiations and resolution 84

(III) of 21 May 1972 on the international monetary situation, adopted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development at its third session, 107 and reaffirms that the developing countries should participate fulJy, effectively and continuously in all stages of the multilateral trade negotiations and in the decisionmaking process of the international monetary system and its reform, notably through their participation in the Ad Hoe Committee on Reform of the International Monetary System and Related Issues, established by the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund, and forthcoming multilateral trade negotiations, to ensure that full consideration is given to their specific interests:

Takes note of agreed conclusion 92 (XII) of 23 October 1972 of the Trade and Development Board on multilateral trade negotiations,108 whereby the Board agreed, inter alia, that one of the fundamental aims of the negotiations should be the expansion and the diversification of exports of developing countries in accordance with their trade and development needs and that, consequently, every effort should be made in the course of the negotiations to ensure that they result in significant benefits to the developing countries;

Invites the Contracting Parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to make adequate arrangements in order to ensure that all developing countries, whether or not contracting parties to the General Agreement, are given the opportunity to par-

Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No.: E.73.11.D.4 ), annex I.A.

ticipate fully, effectively and continuously in all stages of the negotiations, so that their interests are fully taken into account; such arrangements should be without any prejudice to their position with regard to their accession to the General Agreement;

Notes the summing-up by the Chairman of the Contracting Parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade at its twenty-eighth session on the multilateral trade negotiations, on 14 November 1972, whereby agreed conclusion 92 (XII) of the Trade and Development Board was taken into consideration and it was agreed that the negotiations should aim at securing additional benefits for the international trade of the developing countries so as to achieve a substantial increase in their foreign exchange earnings, diversification of their exports and an acceleration of the rate of growth of their trade, taking into account their development needs, and, in this connexion, invites the States members of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to ensure that these fundamental aims of the negotiations will be fully achieved and to continue to pursue their efforts to include other fundamental objectives such as, inter alia,

further improvement of the conditions of access to the markets of the industrialized countries for the exports of the developing countries and the solution of the problems caused by pricing policies;

Welcomes the establishment by the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund of the Ad Hoe Committee on Reform of the International Monetary System and Related issues, as recommended in resolution 84 (III) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development;

Endorses the recommendation of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development that problems in the monetary, trade and finance spheres should be resolved in a co-ordinated manner, taking into account their interdependence, with the full participation of developed and developing countries, and takes note of the decision of the Trade and Development Board to continue the consideration of this matter at the second part of its twelfth session;

Endorses the request addressed by the Trade and Development Board to the Secre~ary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to continue and develop further his consultations with the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and the Director-General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade as required, to submit reports to members of the Conference when he considers it necessary and, in the intervals between sessions of the Board, to utilize fully existing procedures and mechanisms for consultations;

Urges the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to report to the Trade and Development Board at the second part of its twelfth session with a view to enabling the Board to consider and reach agreement on ways in which the Conference can ensure an effective contribution within its competence-before and during the multilateral trade negotiations and discussions on monetary reform to take place in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the International Monetary Fund, respectively-to the solution in a co-ordinated manner of the problems in the monetary, trade and finance spheres, in pursuance of Conference resolution 84 (III);

Welcomes the conclusion of the International Cocoa Agreement, 1972, adopted within the framework of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in October 1972, and urges the coming into force of the Agreement as early as possible in 1973;

Endorses agreed conclusion 90 (XII) of 23 October 1972109 of the Trade and Development Board whereby the Board agreed to give priority attention to the conditions of international trade in primary commodities, on which the great majority of developing countries still heavily depend for their export earnings, and draws the attention of the Board to the need for substantial improvement of the terms of trade by the middle of the Second United Nations Development Decade;

Urges all States members of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to take the necessary steps to ensure their effective participation in the preparation for, and the work of, the seventh

special

session of the Committee on Commodities with a view to reaching concrete and significant results in trade liberalization and pricing policy early in the 1970s, as called for in Conference resolution 83

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of 20 May 1972;110

Requests the World Bank Group to undertake, as a matter of priority and within the limits of its competence, the measures provided for in Conference resolution 54 (III) of 19 May 1972110 designed to ensure the stabilization of the prices of raw materials;

Invites the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to provide assistance to the developing countries in their participation in the various stages of the multilateral trade negotiations and to make the appropriate budgetary allocation to this ·end, without prejudice to the continuation of its work relative to the expansion of the trade of developing countries, which shall not be delayed in any way by the forthcoming negotiations, and invites the regional economic commissions and the United Nations Economic and Social Office at Beirut, with the assistance of the United Nations Development Programme and in accordance with paragraph 8 of Conference resolution 82 (HI), to give the highest priority to requests for assistance formulated by their member States with a view to enabling them to participate effectively in the multilateral trade negotiations;

Notes with appreciation that, through the continuous efforts of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, as reflected in resolutions of the Conference, intergovernmental action is gradually being mobilized in an increasing number of fields. such as those of the marketing and distribution of primary products, restrictive busines,. practices in the manufactures trade, contractual transfers of technology, insurance and reinsurance and the practices of liner conferen(;es, in particular in cases where the activities of transnational enterprises have long contro11cd, restricted or otherwise influenced the interna-- tional market, interfering with its functioning in a way that is often detrimental to the full realization of the development potential of the developing countries;

Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No.: E.73.II.D.4), Resolutiom adopted on the reports of the Second Committee

Endorses Trade and Development Board resolution 88 (XII) of 19 October 1972111 regarding permanent sovereignty over natural resources;

Endorses resolution 62 (III) of 19 May 1972,110 on the special measures in favour of the least developed among the developing countries and resolution 63 (III) of 19 May 1972,110 on the special measures related to the particular needs of the land-locked developing countries, both of which were unanimously adopted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development at its third session;

Calls upon all the States members of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, in particular the developed countries, to take the necessary steps to give effective implementation, through action at the national and intergovernmental levels, to the resolutions and decisions adopted by the Conference at its third session, and also to make every effort to reach an agreement on the tasks that remain unfinished and on the large number of important issues remitted by the Conference to its continuing machinery for

further consideration and action;

Recommends that the Trade and Development Board, at its fifth special session, should within its competence review the progress made in and seek further i~plementation of, the policy measu;es of the Internatlon_al Development Strategy for the Second United ~at101;1s _Developm_ent Decade112 as adopted within the t1me-hm1ts prescnbed therein, reach agreements in more specific terms on issues that bad not been fully res_olyed, seek new areas of agreement and widen the ex1stmg ones, and evolve new concepts and seek agree- ~ents on additional measures, so as to fulfil the essential role and responsibility of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in the review and appraisal procedure and to facilitate the attainment of the goals and objectives of the International Development Strategy, in accordance with Conference resolution 79 (HI) of 20 May 1972;113

Further recommends that the Trade and Development Board, in the light of the decisions and recommendations of the United Nations Conference on 1:'rade and Development at its third session, and particularly of paragraph 7 (a) of Conference resolution 80 ( 11!) of 20 May 1972, 113 and of General Assembly resolution 1995 (XIX), should select the areas in which_ action can . be initiated for the negotiation and adoption of multilateral legal instruments within its field of competence;

Requests the Trade and Development Board to continue its work:

With a view to the fullest possible effective implementation of principles governing international trade and economic relations among States as approved both at the first and the third sessions of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Developmenr;

( b) For the further strengthening of the imtitutional machinery of the Conference as recommended in section H, paragraphs 30, 31 and 32, of General Assem½ly r,·solut:on 1995 (XIX);

annex I.

112 Resolution 2626 (XXV).

Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No.:' E.73.II.D.4),

Requests the Secretary-General of the United fullest extent possible the effective implementation of Nations Conference on Trade and Development to the resolutions and decisions of the Conference and of carry out the work programme for 1973-1974, as subthe Board and, to this end, recommends that the apmitted to the Trade and Development Board at the propriate bodies of the United Nations should take first part of its twelfth session, 114 so as to ensure to the the pertinent decisions for the provision of the needed financial resources. 114 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-

19 December 1972 chapter I.

• • • Other decisions

Report of the Economic and Social Council

(Item 12)

At its 2113 th plenary meeting, on 18 December 1972, the General Assembly,

on the recommendation of the Second Committee: 115

(a) Decided to defer until its twenty-eighth session further consideration of the draft resolution entitled "Measures to improve the organization of the work of the Council", recommended by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 1622 (LI) of 30 July 1971, and the amendments submitted thereto during the consideration of the draft resolution by the Second Committee at the twenty-sixth session;116

(b) Recognizing the importance of the proposals and suggestions contained in the draft resolution entitled "Statement by the United Nations on promoting the development of co-operation in economic, trade, scientific and technological matters on the basis of equality" in relation to the promotion of comprehensive co-operation among States for social and economic progress and development,

and considering that, owing to lack of time, it was not possible to discuss adequately and to adopt a decision on this draft statement at the twenty-seventh session, decided to refer the draft statement, together with the summary records of the discussion on this matter in the Second Committee,117 to the Working Group established under resolution 45 (HI) of 18 May 1972 adopted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development at its third session,118 for

further consideration;

(c) Took note of the tenth annual report of the United Nations/FAQ Intergovernmental Committee of the World Food Programme;110

(d) Decided to defer until its twenty-eighth session consideration of the World Plan of Action for the Application of Science and Technology to Development,120 at which time it might consider in depth the recommendations made thereon to the Economic and Social Council by the Committee on Science and Technology for Development and the Council's comments thereon, in conjunction with the first review and appraisal of the Second United Nations Development Decade and the report which the Secretary-General is to prepare under General Assembly resolution 2658 (XXV) on the role of modem science and technology in the development of nations;

(e) Decided to defer until its twenty-eighth session consideration of the questions entitled "Protein resources" and "Application of computer technology for development".

1111 Ibid., Twenty-seventh Session, Annexes, agenda item 12, document A/8963, para. 59.

116 Ibid., Twenty-sixth Session, Annexes, agenda item 12, document A/8578/ Add. I,

paras. 44-46.

117 Ibid., Twenty-seventh Session, Second Committee, 1497th, 1506th and 1510th meetings.

118 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Third Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No.: E.73.11.D.4 ),

119 See E/5129.

120 United Nations publication, Sales No.: E.71.II.A. l 8.

104 Resolution 2626 (XXV).

105 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Third Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No.: E.73.II.D.4).

l06 Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 15 (A/8715/Rev.1).

107 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Third Session, vol. I, Report and 108 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Twentyseventh Session, Supplement No. 15 ( A/8715/Rev.l), part one,

111 See Official Records of the General Asscmblv, Twentyseventh Session, Supplement No. 15 (A/8715/Rev.1), part one,

109 Jbid.

no See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on 110 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conferenc<' on Trade and Development, Third Session, vol. I, Report and Trad,, and Development, Third Session, vol. I Report and

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