Special Measures in Favour of the Least Developed Among the Developing Countries

A/RES/34/210View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

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/34/210	Special measures in favour of the least developed among the developing countries	1,137	18%Compare
1979	A/RES/33/149	Special measures in favour of the least developed among the developing countries	508	13%Compare
1978	A/RES/32/190	Special measures in favour of the least developed among the developing countries	470	–

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1 subject

Least Developed Countries

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11 operative paragraphs

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Endorses the Comprehensive New Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries contained in resolution 122 (V) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development;

Calls upon donor countries urgently to implement the commitments relating to official development assist- 217 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Third Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.73.II.D.4), annex I.A.

218 Ibid., Fourth Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.76.II.D.10 and corrigendum), part one, sect. A.

219 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-third Session, Supplement No. 15 (A/33/15 and Corr.I), vol. I, part two, annex I.

220 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.79.11.D.14), ance to the least developed countries undertaken by them in connexion with paragraph 13 of resolution 122

(V) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development;

Calls upon donor countries to consider urgently, as a step towards the implementation of the Immediate Action Programme, how they should best provide assistance bilaterally or through appropriate multilateral channels, such as the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Development Programme Special Measures Fund for the Least Developed Countries and the United Nations Capital Development Fund, in response to requests from the least developed countries for immediate additional financial support, as envisaged in paragraph 3 (c) of resolution 122 (V) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, in order to ensure that sufficient resources shall be provided to supplement the activities undertaken by the least developed countries themselves;

Notes that such additional assistance would be for 1980 and would in no way adversely affect the share of the least developed countries in the indicative planning figures of the United Nations Development Programme to be considered for the third programming cycle;

Requests the Intergovernmental Group on the Least Developed Countries of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, which is to act as the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, 221 to monitor progress under the Immediate Action Programme and, in particular, to invite donors, as well as the least developed countries to the extent of their possibilities, to submit information on the steps they are taking to implement that Programme;

Recommends that official development assistance to the least developed countries should as a general rule be in the form of grants and that loans to those countries, when provided by mutual agreements, should be on highly concessional terms;

Urges those developed countries which have not yet done so to take steps as quickly as possible to apply

fully the conclusions approved under section A of Trade and Development Board resolution 165 (S-IX);

Urges donor countries and multilateral development institutions to allocate increased financial resources and technical assistance in support of activities aimed at transforming the major structural characteristics of the least developed countries;

Invites all international development institutions and specialized agencies, as well as bilateral donor institutions, regional commissions and the relevant governmental and non-governmental organizations, to accord a high priority to special measures for the least developed countries and to give their full support to the Comprehensive New Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries;

Further invites the Preparatory Committee for the New International Development Strategy to take fully in!o acco_unt, in t_he formulation of the strategy for the third Umted Nat10ns development decade, the special a~d pressing problems facing the least developed countnes;

Requests the Secretary-General to include in hi, analytical report to the General Assembly at its special session in 1980 on the implementation of the new international economic order, called for in Assembly resolu-

221 See resolution 34/203 above.

tion 33/198 of 29 January 1979, an assessment of the situation of the least developed countries as well as a review of the implementation of the special measures called for in the present resolution.

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