Special Measures in Favour of the Least Developed Among the Developing Countries

A/RES/33/149View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 59 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, published in 1979.

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3 versions · 1978–1980

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/34/210

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1980	A/RES/34/210	Special measures in favour of the least developed among the developing countries	1,137	18%Compare
1979	A/RES/33/149	Special measures in favour of the least developed among the developing countries	508	13%Compare
1978	A/RES/32/190	Special measures in favour of the least developed among the developing countries	470	–

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2 subjects

International Financial Institutions Least Developed Countries

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Invites the developed countries as well as the international financial institutions to increase the flow of financial and technical assistance to the least developed among the developing countries;

Urges the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank and other financial institutions to provide additional resources in order to meet the particular needs of the least developed among the developing countries;

Affirms the decision of the Conference on International Economic Co-operation with respect to the allocation of $1 billion in the context of the special action programme;

Welcomes Trade and Development Board resolution 165 (S-IX) of 11 March 1978127 on debt and development problems of developing countries, adopted by the Board at the third part of its ninth special session, at the ministerial level, and urges implementation, as soon as possible, of the measures envisaged therein and also welcomes the implementation measures already adopted;

Also welcomes Trade and Development Board resolution 171 (XVIII) of 17 September 1978128 on special measures in favour of the least developed among the developing countries;

Recommends that the developed countries, as well as the appropriate international organizations and

123 At its 95th plenary meeting, on 29 January 1979, the General Assembly, having been seized of the report of the Fifth Committee on the administrative and financia,1 implications of the present resolution (A/33/556 ), decided to consider the resolution as adopted.

Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.73.JJ.D.4), annex I.A.

125 Ibid., Fourth Session, vol. I. Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.76.II.D.10 and corrigendum), part one, sect. A.

126 E/1978'/86 (Parts I and II).

Session, Supplement No. 15 (A/33/15), vol. I, part two, annex I.

12H Ibid., vol. II, annex I.

financial institutions within the United Nations system, implement the special measures in favour of the least developed among the developing countries, as recommended by the General Assembly and other related bodies of the United Nations;

Welcomes further the request in paragraph 6 of resolution 4 (II) of 28 July 1978129 adopted by the Intergovernmental Group on the Least Developed Countries of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development that the Secretary-General of the Conference prepare an outline, to be given full consideration at the fifth session of the Conference, for launching a substantial new programme of action for the 1980s on behalf of the least developed countries.

124 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Third Session, vol. I, Report and 121 Official Records of the General Assemh/y, Thirty-third

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