Reaffirms the inalienable right of all nations to pursue freely their economic and social development and to exercise full and complete sovereignty over all their natural resources;
2
Welcomes the active and growing participation of all members of society in economic and social development programmes;
3
Reaffirms also that the elimination of all forms of dependence and oppression such as aggression, foreign occupation, colonialism, apartheid and racial discrimination constitutes a prerequisite for world social and economic progress;
4
Urgesthe developed countries to make the structural changes included in the resolutions on the new international economic order aimed at eliminating the inequities and imbalances characterizing international economic relations which are necessary for the progress of the developing countries;
5
Requeststhe Economic and Social Council, the Commission for Social Development, the Committee for Development Planning and the regional commissions to pay particular attention to studies and analyses concerning national experience in achieving far-reaching social and economic changes for the purpose of social progress;
6
Requeststhe Secretary-General to bear in mind, in preparing the reports on the world social situation, the close relationship between economic development and social development, and the over-all situation of the developing countries in international economic relations;
7
Considers that the new international development strategy should duly stress the need for each country to define within the context of its development plans and priorities an appropriate social development policy taking account of its socio-economic structure and its degree of development;
8
Requeststhe Commission for Social Development to consider at its twenty-sixth session the report on the world social situation in the context of the work on the new international development strategy and to transmit its recommendations to the body entrusted with the preparation of that strategy;
9
Requeststhe Committee for Development Planning and the regional commissions, in their contribution to the work of the body entrusted with the preparation of the new international development strategy, to ensure that social development objectives are integrated in the strategy in accordance with the relevant United Nations resolutions;
2a E/1978/19 and Add.I.
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Recalling resolution 3273 (XXIX) of 10 December 1974, in which the General Assembly reaffirmed the right of every State to carry out social and economic changes for the purpose of social progress and the need to continue the study of national experience in that field, and Economic and Social Council resolution 2074 (LXII) of 13 May 1977, in which the Council requested the Secretary-General to submit a report on the findings of various specialized agencies and organs of the United Nations system relating to the distribution of national income,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General24 on the equitable distribution of national income,
1
Affirms that the social progress of all countries implies, among other things, a just and equitable distribution of income at the national and international levels;
2
Requeststhe Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session, through the Economic and Social Council, a report on the conclusions of the study requested in Council resolution I 086 (XXXIX) of 30 July 1965.
VI.
2~ United Nations Educational, Scientific and Ctbltural Organ- • 1zat1on, Records of the General Conference, Nineteenth Session, vol. I, Resolutions, pp. 46-53.
26 See the final report of the Committee of Experts (CC'-77/
