Preparations for the Special Session of the General Assembly in 1980

Urges the Preparatory Committee for the New International Development Strategy to accelerate its work so as to be able to submit to the General Assembly, through the Economic and Social Council, a draft of the international development strategy for the third United Nations development decade for adoption and proclamation at the special session;

Invites the Committee of the Whole Established under General Assembly Resolution 32/ 174, in its capacity as the preparatory committee for the global negotiations relating to international economic co-operation for development, 210 to organize its work in such a manner as to be able to submit its final report to the Assembly at the special session;

Invites the Governments of Member States to reexamine, bearing in mind the need to establish the new international economic order, their position on the important international economic problems, so as to enable the General Assembly to achieve positive results at the special session;

Requests the Secretary-General to accord the necessary high priority to and to provide the necessary facilities and resources for all preparatory arrangements for the special session;