Multilateral Development Assistance for the Exploration of Natural Resources

A/RES/33/194View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda items 58 Development and international economic cooperation and 58e Multilateral development assistance for the exploration of natural resources, published in 1979.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1978–1980

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/34/201

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1980	A/RES/34/201	Multilateral development assistance for the exploration of natural resources	673	32%Compare
1979	A/RES/33/194	Multilateral development assistance for the exploration of natural resources	585	20%Compare
1978	A/RES/32/176	Multilateral development assistance for the exploration of natural resources	483	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Multilateral Aid Natural Resources Resources Exploration

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary- General on multilateral development assistance for the exploration of natural resources;176

Requests the Secretary-General to organize and undertake, in co-operation with the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, missions to developing countries that so request to assist in the assessment of the needs of those countries in the field of natural resources exploration and development, including an estimate of the costs involved, taking into account the proposals made in paragraph 13 of his report, and to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-fourth session on the progress achieved in this undertaking;

Takes note of the findings of the intergovernmental Group of Experts on Mineral and Energy Exploration in Developing Countries as transmitted by the Secretary-General in his report;177

Requests the Economic and Social Council, in consultation with the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme, to consider the advisability of adjusting the operating procedures of the United Nations Revolving Fund for Natural Resources Exploration, taking into account the views set out by the Group of Experts in paragraphs 87 to 92 of its report178 and the basic principles of the Fund;

Invites the World Bank to explore ways in which its activities in financing natural resources can be made increasingly responsive to the needs of developing countries, and to examine whether new approaches would be useful, taking into account the views set out by the Group of Experts in paragraphs

176 A/33/256.

177 Ibid., sect. II.

178 A/33/256, annex. 80 to 86 of its report,178 and bearing in mind the sovereignty of States over their natural resources;

Decides, in the light of the importance for developing countries of the transfer of the technologies required for natural resources exploration and exploitation, that the Committee on Natural Resources and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development should review the recommendations concerning the transfer of technology in the natural resources field;

Requests the Secretary-General to keep developments in the field of exploration and development of natural resources under review and to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-fourth session a report on the experience gained in the activities mentioned in the present resolution.

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