Report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on Its 5th Session

A/RES/34/196View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 56 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, published in 1980.

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4 versions · 1973–1984

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1984	A/RES/38/155	Report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on its sixth session	—	—
1980	A/RES/34/196	Report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on its 5th session	2,082	9%Compare
1977	A/RES/31/159	Report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on its 4th session	377	6%Compare
1973	A/RES/3041(XXVII)	Report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on its 3rd session	2,693	–

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Takes note of the report of the United Nations 1. Conference on Trade and Development on its fifth session and the report of the Trade and Development Board on its tenth special session and its nineteenth session;

Notes with concern that the results achieved by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development at its fifth session were limited, especially in the areas of major concern to developing countries;

Calls for appropriate urgent action to implement at the national and international levels the resolutions and decisions as adopted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development at its fifth session and by the Trade and Development Board at its nineteenth session;

Urges all States to reach early agreement on the

remaining issues of importance to all countries, particularly those of major importance to the developing countries, which were remitted by the Conference at its fifth session to its permanent machinery;

Endorses resolution 131 (V) of 3 June 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Developmentm on protectionism and structural adjustment, takes note of Trade and Development Board decision 199 (XIX) of 20 October 19791 " 1' on the same subject and calls for their full implementation by Governments;

A /so endorses resolution 124 (V) of 3 June 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 108 in which the Conference called for prompt action for finalizing and adopting the articles of agreement of the Common Fund at the fourth session of the United Nations Negotiating Conference on a Common Fund under the Integrated Programme for Commodities and for the conclusion of negotiations, where appropriate, on individual commodities, agreements or arrangements and for the establishment of a framework of international co-operation, within the over-all context of the Integrated Programme for Commodities, for expanding in developing countries the processing of primary commodities and for the greater participation of developing countries in the marketing and distribution thereof;

Welcomes the announcement of pledges of 1. voluntary contributions to the second account as well as declarations of intent in this regard made at the fifth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the important announcement concerning contributions to the Common Fund made by the Special Fund of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries at the second session of the Interim Committee of the United Nations Negotiating Conference on a Common Fund under the Integrated Programme for Commodities, and urges the countries and international institutions which have not yet done so to 1~8 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Fifth Session, vol. I, Report and

u 9 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirtyfourth Session, Supplement No. 15 (A/34/15 and Corr.I), vol.

indicate their declarations of intent to pledge voluntary contributions before the fourth session of the United Nations Negotiating Conference;

We/comes resolution 105 (V) of 1 June 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development158 on international food trade and endorses the recommendations contained therein;

Endorses the recommendations contained in resolution 103 (V) of 30 May 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development158 relating to restrictive business practices, including those concerning the collection and dissemination of publicly available information and as far as possible other information on such practices having adverse effects on international trade, particularly that of developing countries, and on the economic development of those countries, and the preparation of studies on marketing and distribution arrangements in respect of export and import transactions and exclusive dealing arrangements resulting in an abuse of dominant position of market power which adversely affect international trade;

Also endorses resolution 129 (V) of 3 June 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development158 concerning proposed measures to increase, both bilaterally and through the multilateral financial institutions, the quantity and quality of official development assistance to developing countries as well as private and other non-official flows to them, facilitating their access to private capital markets;

Further endorses resolution 101 (V) of 30 May 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development158 and takes note of the concern of the developing countries that their interests should be taken into account in the revision of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property;

Endorses resolution 102 (V) of 30 May 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development158 and Trade and Development Board decision 193 (XIX) of 20 October 1979159 and calls for their full implementation;

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Also endorses resolution 106 (V) of 1 June 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development158 and reiterates the invitation to States members of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development which are not contracting parties to the Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences to consider becoming contracting parties so that the Convention may enter into force as soon as possible;

Takes note of resolution 121 (V) of 3 June 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development158 inviting the provision of financial and technical assistance, including training, to the developing countries in the acquisition of ships, building up their merchant fleets and the development and improvement of port facilities and infrastructure;

Endorses the decision contained in resolution 122 (V) of 3 June 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development15s to launch a Comprehensive New Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries, comprising two phases, and underlines the importance to those countries of the United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries referred to in paragraph 11 (e) of that resolution;

Also endorses resolutions 111 (V) and 123 (V) of 3 June 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development158 concerning actions to be taken by individual countries and by the international community to help meet the particular needs and problems of land-locked and island developing countries;

Takes note of resolution 119 (V) of 3 June 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development158 on protectionism in the services sector, in which the Secretary-General of the Conference was requested to examine and analyse the effects of such practices on the growth of air transport in developing countries, and requests the Secretary-General of the Conference to submit such study to the Trade and Development Board;

Endorses resolution 114 (V) of 3 June 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development158 on institutional issues and calls for the necessary action for its full implementation;

Also endorses resolution 115 (V) of 3 June 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development158 and decides that the necessary steps should be taken to ensure that Arabic will have full capacity as an official and working language of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development with respect to both interpretation and translation facilities, with effect from 1 January 1980;

Takes note of resolution 125 (V) of 3 June 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development158 concerning a study for the operation of a complementary facility for commodity-related shortfalls in export earnings and requests that it should be cornpleted as soon as possible after the conclusion of the negotiations on the Common Fund;

Takes note of resolution 128 (V) of 3 June 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development1ss on international monetary reform, by which, inter alia, the International Monetary Fund was invited to undertake a number of specific studies and reviews, and takes note, in particular, of the decision contained therein to establish within the Conference an ad hoe intergovernmental high-level group of experts to examine fundamental issues regarding the future evolution of the international monetary system, and requests that its report should be made available, together with the comments and recommendations of the Trade and Development Board thereon, to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session;

Endorses the recommendations contained in resolution 112 (V) of 3 June 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development158 relating to the importance of continuing action at the international, regional, subregional and national levels to strengthen the technological capacity of developing countries and thereby to accelerate their technological transformation;

Notes the requests enumerated in resolution 120

(V) of 3 June 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development15s for the studies and work to be undertaken by the permanent machinery of the Conference relating to participation of developing countries in world shipping and the development of their merchant marines;

24_ Endorses resolution 127 (V) of 3 June 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development15s and emphasizes in particular the importance of the special session of the Committee on Economic Cooperation among Developing Countries to be held early in 1980 to consider, inter alia, proposals of the developing countries for appropriate support in keeping with its mandate with regard to:

The establishment of a global system of trade preferences among developing countries;

Co-operation among state trading organizations of developing countries;

General Aaembly (c)

The establishment of multinational marketing enterprises among developing countries; as well as for the studies and necessary meetings pursuant to resolution 1 (I) of 9 May 1977 of the Committee on Economic Co-operation among Developing Countries;160 25.

Welcomes Trade and Development Board decision 186 (XIX) of 17 October 19791 ~9 on trade relations among countries having different economic and social systems and all trade flows resulting therefrom, and urges all States members of the United ~a!ions Conference on Trade and Development to part1c1pate constructively in the consideration of this question at the twenty-first session of the Board;

Endorses resolution 107 (V) of 1 June 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Developmentm and requests the Trade and Development Board, at its twenty-first session, to recommend the place, date and duration of the sixth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, bearing in mind the offer made in this regard by the Government of Cuba.

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154 Ibid. (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.79.11.D.14).

Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.79.Il.D.14),

part one, sect. A. (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.79.11.D.14), annex VI.

107 See A/34/542, annex, sect. IV.

II, part one, annex I.

(e) 190 See Official Records of the Trade and Development Board, Seventeenth Session, Supplement No. 2 (TD/B/6S2), annex I.

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