Specific Action Related to the Particular Needs and Problems of Land-Locked Developing Countries

A/RES/36/175View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 69 Development and international economic cooperation, published in 1982.

What other versions does this mandate have?

7 versions · 1980–1990

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/44/214

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1990	A/RES/44/214	Specific action related to the particular needs and problems of land-locked developing countries	—	—
1988	A/RES/42/174	Specific action related to the particular needs and problems of land-locked developing countries	313	16%Compare
1986	A/RES/40/183	Specific action related to the particular needs and problems of land-locked developing countries	844	73%Compare
1985	A/RES/39/209	Specific action related to the particular needs and problems of land-locked developing countries	744	57%Compare
1982	A/RES/36/175	Specific action related to the particular needs and problems of land-locked developing countries	648	33%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

1 subject

Landlocked Developing Countries

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms the right of land-locked developing countries to free access to and from the sea and their right to freedom of transit;

Appeals to all States, international organizations and financial institutions to implement, as a matter of urgency and priority, the specific actions related to the particular needs and problems of land-locked developing countries envisaged in resolutions 63 (III), 98 (IV) and 123 (V) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, in the International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade, in the Substantial New Programme of Action for the 1980s for the least developed countries73 and in other relevant resolutions of the United Nations;

Urges all donor countries, as well as others in a position to do so, and the international organizations concerned, to provide land-locked developing countries with appropriate financial and technical assistance in the form of grants or concessional loans for the construction and improvement of their transport and transit infrastructures and facilities;

Urges also the international community and multilateral and bilateral financial institutions to intensify efforts in raising the net flow of resources to land-locked developing countries to help offset the adverse effects of their disadvantageous geographical situation on their economic development efforts, in keeping with the over-all development needs of each land-locked developing country;

Invites the transit countries to co-operate effectively with the land-locked developing countries in harmonizing transport planning and promoting other joint ventures in the field of transport at the regional, subregional and bilateral levels;

Commends the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and other United Nations agencies for their work and the assistance they have provided to the land-locked developing countries and invites them to continue to take appropriate and effective measures to respond to the specific needs of those countries;

Invites the international community to give financial support to interested transit and land-locked developing countries in the construction of alternative routes to the sea;

Recommends continued and intensified activities relating to the conducting of necessary studies and the implementation of special actions and action programmes for the land-locked developing countries, including those in the area of economic co-operation among developing countries, as well as those that have been envisaged in the programme of work of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the regional commissions and other programmes and activities at the regional and subregional levels.

/03rd plenary meeting

17 December 1981

69 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Third Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.73.11.D.4), annex I.A.

10 Ibid., Fourth Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E. 76.11.D.10 and corrigendum), part one, sect. A.

71 Ibid., Fifth Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.79.11.D.14), part one, sect. A. 68 A/36/648.

72 Resolution 35/56, annex.

13 Report of the United Nations Conference on the Least Developed ' 4 A/S-11114. annex I Countries, Paris, 1-14 September 1981 (United Nations publication. Sale,

·, See Official Rffords of th,· Iiconormc and Social Co1111cil, /979, No. E.82.1.8), part one, sect. A.

.\upplemn11 No 15 (E!l<J79i50). part two. sect I)

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