United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries

A/RES/35/205View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 61q United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, published in 1981.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 1980–1988

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/42/177

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1988	A/RES/42/177	United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries	873	18%Compare
1982	A/RES/36/194	United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries	1,587	18%Compare
1981	A/RES/35/205	United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries	2,206	16%Compare
1980	A/RES/34/203	United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries	676	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 subjects

Conferences Least Developed Countries

What’s in this document?

38 operative paragraphs

Urges all developed countries, developing countries in a position to do so, multilateral development institutions and other sources to take urgent steps to implement without any further delay, and in any case before the end of 1981, the commitments undertaken in the Immediate Action Programme ( 1979-1981 ), contained in resolution 122 (V) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development:

Urges donor countries which have not yet done so to provide substantive information on the steps they

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are taking to implement the Immediate Action Programme;

Urges the least developed countries, to the extent of their possibilities, to submit information on the steps they are taking to implement the Immediate Action Programme;

Also urges donor countries to make equitable and all possible efforts with a view to doubling, at the earliest possible time within the first half of the 1980s, the flow of official development assistance to the least developed countries, in accordance with the commitments undertaken in paragraph 13 of resolution 122 (V) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and to give serious consideration to this end to the proposal that such a doubling should be in real terms, taking into account the relative performance of donor countries;

Further urges donor countries, in the context of the over-all increase of official development assistance, to give serious consideration, not later than at the United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, to be held in 1981, to the proposals for further measures to provide an adequate minimum flow of official development assistance, including those proposals for tripling the net disbursement of concessional assistance by 1984 and quadrupling it by 1990, at 1977 prices, on a predictable, continuous and assured basis;

Calls upon all developed countries to provide official development assistance to the least developed countries, as a general rule in the form of grants, which, as a general rule, should be untied;

Expresses satisfaction at the readiness of other developing countries to take concrete measures to assist in meeting the development needs of the least developed countries on a priority basis and to give particular attention to the least developed countries, as an example of economic and technical co-operation among developing countries, and to make special efforts to ensure that all least developed countries can actively participate in and benefit from economic and technical cooperation among developing countries;

Notes with appreciation the concern of developed countries for the alleviation of the critical situation of the least developed countries;

Urges donor countries and multilateral development institutions to allocate increased financial resources and technical assistance in support of activities aimed at major structural transformations of the least developed countries, taking into account the relative over-all performance of the donor countries;

Requests multilateral development agencies, including international, interregional, regional and intergovernmental funds, to accord priority to the least developed countries in the programming and allocation of their resources;

Urges all developed countries, developing countries in a position to do so, multilateral development institutions and other sources to extend substantial assistance to the least developed countries for the development of their energy resources;

Invites all countries, as well as organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, to accord due priority, in the implementation of the International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade, 256 to the provisions relating _to accelerated development of the least developed countries;

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Endorses the conclusions and recommendations put forward by the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries at its second session, 257 taking into account the views expressed by delegations at that session;

Decides that the United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries shall be held from I to 14 September 1981, to be preceded by a two-day consultation among senior officials on 27 and 28 August 1981:

Accepts with appreciation the offer of the Government of France to act as host to the Conference, to be held in Paris;

Requests the Secretary-General to invite:

All States to participate in the Conference;

Representatives of organizations that have (b) received a standing invitation from the General Assembly to participate, in the capacity of observers, in thesessions and the work of all international conferences convened under its auspices to participate in the Conference in that capacity, in accordance with Assembly resolutions 3237 (XXIX) of 22 November 1974 and 31 / I 52 of 20 December 1976;

Representatives of the national liberation movements recognized by the Organization of African Unity in its region to participate in the Conference in the capacity of observers, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 3280 (XXIX) of 10 December 1974;

Namibia, represented by the United Nations Council for Namibia, to participate in the Conference in accordance with paragraph 3 of General Assembly resolution 32/9 E of 4 November 1977;

The specialized agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency, as well as interested organs of the United Nations, to be represented at the Conference;

Intergovernmental bodies in consultative status with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to be represented by observers at the Conference;

Non-governmental organizations in consultative (g) status (general category) with the United Nations Confc:rence on Trade and Development and the Economic and Social Council to be represented by observers at the Conference;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure effective participation of representatives of the le"ast developed countries in the Conference by seeking extrabudgetary funds to finance travel expenses of three representatives from each least developed country;

Decides that the third session of the Preparatory Committee for the Conference shall be held at Geneva from 29 June to 10 July 1981;

Requests the Preparatory Committee to consider and finalize the draft agenda and draft rules of procedure for the Conference during its third session and to submit them to the Conference;

Requests the least developed countries to submit their individual country presentations to the Conferem:e secretariat not later than I March 1981, since they are of crucial importance to the success of the Conference;

Calls upon the internati~rnal commu~ity and_ the organs, organizations and bodies of the United ~at1ons system to take all necessary measures to contribute to the success of the Conference, the primary objective of which will be to finalize, adopt and support the Substantial New Programme of Action for the 1980s, as called for in resolution 122 (V) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development;

Requests the Secretary-General to make the necessary arrangements to ensure the availability of all relevant documents, in all the official languages of the Conference, well in advance for timely consideration by Member States;

Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the necessary arrangements for requisite financial provisions to the maximum extent possible within existing resources are made to ensure the success of tht> Conference, including the arrangements for prP-- Conference consultations, as envisaged in paragraph 2 of the present section;

Decides that the official languages of the Conference and its committees shall be those of the General Assembly and its Main Committees;

Requests the Secretary-General, in pursuance of paragraph 8 of its resolution 34/203, to entrust the Director-General for Development and International Economic Co-operation with the responsibility for

taking necessary steps, with the collaboration of the Secretary-General of the Conference, to ensure the full mobilization and co-ordination of all organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system in the preparations for the Conference;

Also requests the Secretary-General and the organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to provide, using, inter alia, existing resource~ to the extent possible, appropriate assistance, including technical assistance, to the least developed countries, at their request and in accordance with established procedures, in their preparations for the Conference at the national, subregional, regional and global levels;

Invites the Governments in a position to do so to provide similar assistance:

Urges donor countries to provide assistance bilaterally or through appropriate multilateral channels such as the United Nations Development Programme, the Special Measures Fund for the Least Developed Countries of the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Capital Development Fund, in response to requests from the least developed countries for immediate additional financial support for detailed preparations of the country programmes and other preparations for the Substantial New Programme of Action for the 1980s, including identification of obstacles to planning and steps to correct them, a su~- vey of resources, feasibility studies and investment p~oJects, as envisaged in paragraph 3 (c) of resolution 122 (V) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development:

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Requests the Secretary-General of_ the Un_ited Nations the Secretary-General of the United Nations Confere~ce on the Least Developed Countries and the organs, organizations and bodies of the Uni~ed_ Nations system to undertake a programme of pubhc information activities designed to ensure awa:-eness througho_ut the world of the importance of the Conference and its objectives. to the maximum extent possible within existing resources;

Invites Member States actively to promote public awareness of the Conference by disseminating relevant information, inter alia, to their mass communication media networks;

Suggests the exchange of hi~h-level natiof!al delegations in order to generate pubhc awareness with regard to the critical situation of t~e \east developed countries and the importance and obJect1ves of the Conference:

Expresses the view that an international year of the least developed countries could focus the attention of the international community on the situation in those countries, without prejudice to paragraph 10 of the annex to Economic and Social Council resolution 1980 /6 7 of 25 July 1980 on guidelines for future international years. as adopted by the General Assembly in its decision 35/424 of 5 December 1980:

Requests the United Nations Postal Administration to issue special stamps commemorating the Conference;

Invites Member States to consider issuing special national stamps of a commemorative nature on the Conference:

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Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session a report on the outcome of the United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries and on the progress made in the implementation of the Immediate Action Programme (1979-1981).

Nations publication, Sales No. E.79.11.D. 14), part one, sect. A. Supplement No. 45 (A/JS/45).

•, .. Ofjicial Records o( the General Assembly. Thirty-fifth Session. "'See resolution 35/56 above. annex.

Supplement No. 45 (A; 35 /45), part two. annex I.

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