Multilateral Development Assistance for the Exploration of Natural Resources

A/RES/34/201View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 55 Development and international economic cooperation, published in 1980.

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3 versions · 1978–1980

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	–

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3 subjects

Financing Natural Resources Resources Exploration

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on multilateral development assistance for the exploration of natural resources;181 2.

Regrets to note paragraph 8 of the report of the Secretary-General, in which it is stated that several developing countries were unable to accept missions to assess their needs in the field of the exploration and development of natural resources owing to lack of financial resources;

Decides to provide the necessary finances to undertake the above-mentioned missions and requests the Secretary-General to utilize resources within the existing regular programme of technical co-operation for this purpose;

Endorses Economic and Social Council resolution 1979/65 of 3 August 1979, in which the Council decided, inter alia, to establish a working group of governmental experts to review and analyse the activities of the United Nations Revolving Fund for Natural Resources Exploration in order to assist the Council in carrying out a comprehensive review of the functions institutional arrangements and repayment system of th~ Fund;

Requests the above-mentioned working group to consider the ways in which the United Nations Revolving Fund for Natural Resources Exploration should include among its activities concrete projects for pro- 181 A/34/532.

m o ting research and development in developing countries, at their request, so that they may enhance their indigenous capacities for the exploration and development of their natural resources;

Notes the recommendations of the Group of Experts on Mineral and Energy Exploration in Developing Countries regarding transfer of technology182 and in this context requests the organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to take urgent steps with a view to assisting the developing countries, at their request, in this area;

Takes note of the action taken by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development at its fifth session regarding transfer of technology;18"

Requests the Secretary-General to request the Director-General for Development and International Economic Co-operation to take the action necessary to co-ordinate the ongoing activities of the United Nations system in the field of assistance in technology transfer,

taking into account the relevant recommendations of the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development, and to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session;

Welcomes the programme to accelerate petroleum production in the developing countries outlined in the study prepared by the World Bank,184 and invites the World Bank to consider expanding its programme of assistance to the developing countries in this field, at their request and within the framework of their national priorities, particularly in respect of exploration, and to submit a report thereon to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session on the implementation of the measures referred to in the present resolution.

J 09th plenary meeting /9 December 1979

part one, sect. A.

182 /bid., para. 12.

1s3 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Fifth Session, vol. I, Report and 1H See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Fifth Session, vol. I, Report and "

186 Official Records of the Trade and Development Board, Sixteenth Session, Second Part, Annexes, document TD/B/628.

187 See Report of the United Nations Conference on Technical Co-operation among Developing Countries, Buenos Aires, 30 1 8 9 Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Fifth Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes

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