Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 14 Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency, published in 1979.

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Recognizing in this regard that the observance of the Year has contributed towards the reaffirmation of the goals of a new international economic order,

Recognizing also that the situation of children in the developing countries depends on the economic and social development of those countries and consequently on the establishment of a new international economic order,

Deeply gratified by the world-wide response of the international community in observing the Year as a first essential step towards achieving the longer-range objectives of the Year, while also highlighting the international co-operative efforts towards the improvement of the well-being of children and the attainment of the harmonious development of their personalities,

Bearing in mind the conclusions and recommendations of the International Seminar on Children under Apartheid, held in Paris' from 18 to 20 June 19796 at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in observance of the Year,

Noting that the approach adopted by the United Nations in organizing the Y car contributed to its success,

Convinced that the fresh and necessary impetus to activities, generated by the Year. should be maintained and that the new perspectives it has created should he followed by appropriate action in the years to come,

Having considered the report of the Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund on the International Year of the Child,7 1.

Expresses its deep satisfaction to all Governments which elaborated national programmes for the implementation of the aims of the International Year of the Child and to those among them which became initiators of major regional and other international events;

Expresses also its deep appreciation to the United Nations Children's Fund, the lead agency, and to the Executive Director of the Fund and his Special Representative for the International Year of the Child and her staff, and commends the efforts of other concerned organizations of the United Nations system and the contributions made by non-governmental organizations;

Urges Governments to make every effort to consolidate and to build further on the results of the Year in order to achieve lastingly increased benefits for children by such measures, where appropriate, as:

Planning for programmes and services benefiting children, including integrated mother and child health care, in their national planning for social and economic development;

Further identifying, defining and documenting the situation of children;

Setting specific national targets and goals for meeting the needs of children, inter alia, in the fields of health and education and for the development of their intellectual and cultural abilities;

Increasing budgetary provision for programmes benefiting children by reviewing and/ or revising present priorities;

Recognizes the importance of assisting and protecting the family as a basic unit of society and the natural environment for the development and welfare of all its members, especially the children;

Requests Governments and organizations to develop special programmes of assistance to the children oppressed by the inhuman policy of apartheid;

s A/34/512, annex.

7 See A/34/452 and Add.1.

Urges Governments and organizations providing assistance to developing countries through the United Nations Children's Fund and other channels to review their policies, in order to give more recognition to programmes benefiting children, and to increase the flow of such assistance;

Stresses the importance of following up the experience and activities of the Year through long-term plans and action to improve the situation of children in the world, particularly in the developing countries;

Designates the United Nations Children's Fund as the lead agency of the United Nations system responsible for co-ordinating the development aspects of the follow-up activities of the Year, in consultation with the Director-General for Development and International Economic Co-operation, within their respective spheres of competence;

Notes that the Executive Board of the United Nations Children's Fund will consider the scope of the Fund's co-operation with countries as a follow-up to the Year;

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Requests Governments and organs and organizations of the United Nations system to evaluate and follow up the impact of the Year on their activities. and to inform the Secretary-General, who will report thereon to the General Assemhly at its thirty-fifth session:

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Invites non-governmental organizations to continue and expand their programmes related to children in order to maintain the momentum generated by the Year;

Requests the Preparatory Committee for the New International Development Strategy, in elaborating its goals and objectives, to take into account the importance of the interests of children and of meeting their needs.

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Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency

Takes note of the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency;

Notes with satisfaction the continuing efforts of the International Atomic Energy Agency to strengthen

further its activities in the field of technical assistance to developing countries and urges all States to help the Agency to achieve this objective by increasing their voluntary contributions;

Notes with appreciation that the negotiations on the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material were concluded successfully at Vienna on 26 October 1979 with the signing of the final act and that the Convention will be opened for signature on 3 March 1980 at United Nations Headquarters in New York and at the Head9.uarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency at Vienna;

Commends the International Atomic Energy Agency for its continuing efforts to ensure the safe and secure use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes throughout the world and notes with satisfaction the steady improvement of the Agency's safeguards system;

Notes with appreciation the special measures taken by the International Atomic Energy Agency to expand and strengthen its programmes in nuclear safety, particularly aimed at helpmg Member States to develop their nuclear regulatory framework, to acquire adequate cadres of trained personnel and to deal effectively with any emergency that may occur;

Urges all States to support the endeavours of the International Atomic Energy Agency, pursuant to its statute, in furthering the peaceful uses of nuclear power, improving the effectiveness of safeguards and promoting nuclear safety;

Notes with satisfaction:

The continuing work of the International Atomic Energy Agency in keepin~ under review the world's uranium resources, production and demand, the expansion of the Agency's International Nuclear Information System, the setting up of the International Tokamak Reactor workshops, intended to prepare a project for demonstrating the technical feasibility of generating elec-

10 Resolution 2373 (XXII), annex. General Aaembly-Tblrty-fourtb Session tricity by nuclear fusion, and the assistance given by the Agency to Member States in assessing the role that nuclear power can play in their energy development;

The progress made by. the International Atomic Energy Agency towards establishing a system of international storage of plutonium and the action it has taken in regard to the international management of spent fuel;

Notes that the recommendation contained in paragraph 5 of General Assembly resolution 33/3 of 2 November 1978 will be considered by the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency at its twenty-third regular session and expresses the hope that the matter will be brought to an early conclusion;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency the records of the thirty-fourth session of the General Assembly relating to the Agency's activities.

34/20. Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea11

Approves the convening of the two parts of the ninth session of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea in New York for the period from 27 February to 4 April and at Geneva for the period from 28 July to 29 August 1980;

Requests the Secretary-General, in his capacity as Secretary-General of the Conference, to prepare a study on the training needs of developing countries in deep-sea mining and related activities for submission to the Conference as early as possible in 1980.

11 See also sect. X.B.1, decision 34/407.

12 Official Records of the General .Assembly, Thirty-fourth Session, .Annexes, agenda item 22, document A/34/479.

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