World Population Conference

A/RES/3344(XXIX)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1975.

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3 subjects

Conferences Population Programmes of Action

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12 operative paragraphs

Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the World Population Conference, including the resolutions and recommendations of the Conference and the World Population Plan of Action;

Expre.ues its appreciation to the Government of Romanía for its co-operation and gracious hospitality;

Commends the Secretary-General and the Secretary-Gcncral of the World Population Conference for the successful organization of the Conference;

Atfirms that the World Population Plan of Action is an instrument of the international community for thc

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promotion of economic development, quality of life, human rights and fundamental freedoms within the broaeter context of the internationally adopted strategies for national and intemational progress;

Stresses that the implementation of the World Population Plan of Action should take full account of the Programme of Action on the Establishment of a New lnternational Economic Order, and thus contribute to its implementation;

Invites Governments to consider the recommendations for action at the national leve) and to implement population policies and programmes which they determine are appropriate;

Calls upon the Population Commission and the governing bodies of the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, the regional commissions, the specialized agencies and ali other United Nations bodies which report to the Economic and Social Council to determine how each can best assist in implementing the World Population Plan of Action and making adjustments which may be necessary in their work programmes and to report thereon to the Council;

Requests the Economic and Social Council, within the in-depth consideration of the report of the. World Population Conference at its fifty-eighth sess1on, to pay particular attention to the implementation of the World Population Plan of Action, including the functions of the monitoring and review and appraisal of the Plan also at the regional leve);

Requests the Economic and Social Council to continue to provide over-all policy guidance within the United Nations system on population-related matters and to this end to consider these issues on a regular uasis, in a manner to be determined by it;

1 O. Requests the Population Commission at its eighteenth session, within its competence, to report to the . Ec,nomic and Social Council at its fifty-eighth sess101, on the implications of the World Population Conference, including the implications for the Commission itself;

Requests the Economic and Social Council at its fifty-eighth session to forwa<d its views and recommendations, through the Weparatory Committee for the Special Session of the General Assembly Devoted to J?evelopment and International Economic Co-operat1on, to the Assembly at its special session and at its thirtieth regular session;

l nvites the Secretary-General to report to the Economic and Social Council at its fifty-eighth session on ways and means of strengthening the over-all capacity of the relevant únits of the Secretariat within the existing framework, to meet the need for ~ broad approach in the population field, consonant with the principies and the objectives of the World Population Plan of Action;

Urges that assistance to developing countries should be increased in accordance with the goals of the Second United Nations Development Decade and that international assistance in the population field should be expanded, particularly to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, for the proper implementation of the World Population Plan of Action.

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