United Nations Conference on Technical Co-Operation Among Developing Countries

A/RES/31/179View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 68 Technical cooperation among developing countries, published in 1977.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1977–1979

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/33/134

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1979	A/RES/33/134	United Nations Conference on Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries	306	8%Compare
1978	A/RES/32/183	United Nations Conference on Technical Co-operation among Developing Countries	1,852	15%Compare
1977	A/RES/31/179	United Nations Conference on Technical Co-operation among Developing Countries	1,352	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Arabic Language Budget Buenos Aires (Argentina)Conference and Meeting Services Conferences Information Dissemination Inter-Agency Cooperation Participants Report Preparation Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries

What’s in this document?

19 operative paragraphs

Decides to convene the United Nations Confer- 1. ence on Technical Co-operation among Developing Countries at Buenos Aires from 27 March to 7 April 1978;

Requests the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, in view of the importance of the Conference, to act as the Secretary- General of the Conference;

Requests the Secretary-General to invite:

All States to participate in the Conference;

( b)

Representatives of organizations that have received a standing invitation from the General Assembly to participate in the sessions and the work of all international conferences convened under its auspices, in the capacity of observers, in accordance with Assembly resolution 3237 (XXIX) of 22 November 1974;

( c) Representatives of the national liberation movements recognized in its region by the Organization of African Unity, in the capacity of observers, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 3280 (XXIX) of 10 December 1974;

The United Nations Council for Namibia to (d) participate as an observer;

( e) The specialized agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency, the regional commissions, as well as interested organs of the United Nations, to be represented at the Conference;

Interested intergovernmental organizations to be represented by observers;

Interested non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council to be represented by observers;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the necessary arrangements are made for the effective participation in the Conference of the representatives referred to in paragraph 3 ( b) and ( c) above, including the requisite financial provisions for their travel expenses and per diem;

l1 2 /bid., Supplement No. 2A (E/5703/Rev.l ), para. 332.

para. 302.

114 fbid., Supplement No. 2A (E/5846/Rev.1 ), para. 512.

115 Ibid., para. 462.

Decides that the sessional Committee on Technical Co-operation among Developing Countries of the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme shall function as the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on Technical Co-operation among Developing Countries, that, for that purpose, it shall be open to the participation of all Member States as full members and hold three sessions, and that the Preparatory Committee shall elect its own bureau to be composed, in accordance with regional geographical distribution, of a chairman, three vice-chairmen and a rapporteur;

Also decides to establish a small secretariat to assist the Secretary-General of the Conference in discharging his functions, composed of the Special Unit for Technical Co-operation among Developing Countries for substantive purposes and the concerned services of the secretariat of the Economic and Social Council for organizational preparations, taking fully into account the need to maintain close interrelationship between these two aspects of the preparatory work for the Conference;

Requests the Secretary-General to convene the first session of the Preparatory Committee in January 1977;

Further decides that requisite funds for the preparation of the Conference in 1977 over and above those already approved by the United Nations Development Programme for the preparations for, and organization of, the Conference, including those which may be necessary to strengthen existing services, shall be provided under the regular budget of the United Nations and that the Preparatory Committee shall prepare detailed recommendations to the General Assembly at its thirty-second session on the total budget of the Conference to be financed by the regular budget of the United Nations;

Decides to include Arabic among the languages of the Conference;

Requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Secretary-General of the Conference to mobilize the assistance of the Office of Public Information of the Secretariat and of the Division of Information of the United Nations Development Programme, as well as of the concerned services of the organizations of the United Nations system, to undertake a programme of public information activities designed to ensure world-wide awareness of and interest in the Conference and its objectives;

Agrees that the provisional agenda contained in the report of the Administrator on the organization of the Conference should be finalized by the Preparatory Committee in the light of the comments and suggestions made at the twenty-second session of the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme and at the regional meetings on technical co-operation among developing countries;

Requests the Secretary-General of the Conference to enlist the fullest co-operation of the participating and executing agencies, including the regional commissions, in the substantive preparations for the Conference and, to this end, to establish an interagency task force within the framework of the Inter-Agency Consultative Board;

Requests the participating and executing agencies, including the regional commissions, in close cooperation and consultation with the Secretary-General of the Conference, to continue to give priority to activities to promote technical co-operation among developing countries and to contribute fully to the development by the Conference of an effective and pr_actical plan of action to intensify further such co-operation on a continuing basis;

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Requests further the interagency task force to report to the Preparatory Committee at each session, through the Secretary-General of the Conference, on the progress made and the activities undertaken for the implementation of paragraphs 12 and 13 above;

Calls upon the Governments of Member States, in particular those of developing countries, to continue to participate actively in the preparations for the Conference and, to this end, to designate a co-ordinator or liaison officer at the national level and make other arrangements, as appropriate, in order, inter alia, to prepare national reports on their experience and capacity as well as needs on a global and sectoral basis, in regard to technical co-operation among developing countries, for submission to the Conference, taking into account the standards which the Secretary-General of the Conference should prepare with a view to facilitating uniformity in the format of the documents;

Also calls upon the developed countries to continue to participate actively in the preparations for the Conference and, in particular, in the identification of their measures and policies aimed at promoting and intensifying technical co-operation among developing countries.

110 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council,

113 Jbid., Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 2 (E/5779), 111 fbid., Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 2 (E/5646),

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