Fifth Session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

A/RES/33/154View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1979.

What other versions does this mandate have?

14 versions · 1967–1996

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/50/98

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1996	A/RES/50/98	Ninth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development	549	—
1993	A/RES/47/183	Eighth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development	—	—
1991	A/RES/45/205	Eighth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development	—	—
1988	A/RES/42/175	Seventh session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development	—	—
1987	A/RES/41/169	Seventh session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development	—	—

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Economic Cooperation International Economic Relations International Trade

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

I.

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Trade and Development Board on the second and third parts of its ninth special session and the second part of its seventeenth session141 and on its eighteenth session; 142 2.

Welcomes the adoption by the Trade and Development Board at its eighteenth session of the provisional agenda for the fifth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development as well as of the arrangements for the organization of the session; 143 3.

Considers that the fifth session of the Conference will provide an important and timely occasion for:

Review of progress and developments relating to the major ongoing negotiations and agreement on appropriate further action;

140 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Fourth Sessio11, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.76.Il.D.10 and corrigendum), part one, sect. A.

141 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-third Session, Supplement No. 15 (A/33/15), vol. r.

142 J bid., vol. II.

143 Ibid., annexes II and III.

V.

( b) Examination of current economic developments, particularly those having an adverse effect on the developing countries, and consideration of appropriate action including corrective measures;

( c) Evaluation of the world trade and economic situation and consideration of issues, policies and appropriate measures to facilitate structural changes in the international economy, taking into account the interrelationship of problems in the areas of trade, development, money and finance with a view to attaining the establishment of a new international economic order and bearing in mind the further evolution that may be needed in the rnles and principles governing international economic relations and the necessary contribution of the Conference to an international development strategy for the third United Nations development decade;

Urges all Member States to take the necessary steps with a view to ensuring satisfactory results from the fifth session of the Conference through adequate preparations at the regional and interregional levels and through the full utilization of the permanent machinery of the Conference for the purpose of facilitating negotiations on the agenda items of the fifth session;

Further urges all Member States to work towards agreement on action-oriented and other decisions at the fifth session of the Conference that would contribute effectively to the establishment of the new international economic order.

145 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-third

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