Special Measures for the Social and Economic Development of Africa in the 1980s

A/RES/36/180View PDF

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

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4 versions · 1980–1984

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/38/199

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1984	A/RES/38/199	Special measures for the social and economic development of Africa in the 1980s	1,442	32%Compare
1983	A/RES/37/139	Special measures for the social and economic development of Africa in the 1980s	765	52%Compare
1982	A/RES/36/180	Special measures for the social and economic development of Africa in the 1980s	628	21%Compare
1980	A/RES/35/64	Special measures for the social and economic development of Africa in the 1980s	342	–

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3 subjects

Africa Economic Development Programmes of Action

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7 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the interim report of the Secretary- General concerning special measures for the social and economic development of Africa in the 1980s, 88 which indicates the contributions by organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations to the implementation of the Lagos Plan of Action for the Implementation of the Monrovia Strategy for the Economic Development of Africa;

Invites, in this context, the organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to examine ways and means of increasing the resources for the execution of the programmes for the development decade for Africa and to apply the special measures in a comprehensive and coordinated manner;

Urges donor countries to provide the necessary resources for tL:! effective implementation of the Lagos Plan of Action;

Invites all international financial institutions, particularly the World Bank and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, to continue actively to consider increasing substantially their development assistance to Africa during the decade;

Renews its invitation to the non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council to submit to the Secretary-General suggestions for the contribution which they intend to make towards the implementation of the Lagos Plan of Action for transmission to the Council at its second regular session of 1982;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to allocate necessary resources to the Economic Commission for Africa, taking into account its role as the main economic and social development centre within the United Nations system for the African region, in accordance with General Assembly resolutions 32/ I 97 of 20 December 1977 and 33/ 202 of 29 January 1979;

Further requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-seventh session, through the Economic and Social Council at its second regular session of 1982, a report on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution.

"' A/36/571. annex " 4 Resolution 35/56. annex. para. 41. 81 A/S-11/14, annex II.

" See Official Record., of 1he General Assembly, Thirty-sixth Session, 82 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council. Sixtv-third Supplement No. 25 (An6/25 and Corr. I). annex I, decision 9/1, sect. II. Session, Supplement No. 7. vol. I (E/5941). part Ill.

'" See Economic and 'ioc,al Council resolution 1981173 of 24 July 1981.

As a result of the above resolution. the lists of Stares eligible for membership in the Industrial Development Board will he as follows: A.

LIST OF STATES INDICATED IN SECTION II, PARAGRAPH 4 (a), OF GENERAi. ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 2 I 52 (XXI) Afghanistan India Algeria Indonesia Angola Iran Bahrain Iraq Bangladesh Israel Benin Ivory Coast Bhutan Jordan Botswana Kenya Burma Kuwait Burundi Lao People's Democratic Republic Cape Verde Lebanon Central African Republic Lesotho Chad Liberia China Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Comoros Madagascar Congo Malawi Democratic Kampuchea Malaysia Democratic People"s Republic of Maldives Korea Mali Democratic Yemen Mauritania Djibouti Mauritius Egypt Mongolia Equatorial Guinea Morocco Ethiopia Mozambique Fiji Nepal Gabon Niger Gambia Nigeria Ghana Oman Guinea Pakistan Guinea-Bissau Papua New Guinea

'" For the other changes in the lists since the adoption of resolution 2152 (XXI). see resolutions 2385 (XXIII) of 19 November 1968, 2510 (XXIV) of 21 November 1969, 2637 (XXV) of 19 November 1970, 2824 (XXVll of 16 December 1971. 2954 (XXVII) of 11 December 1972, 3088 (XXVIII) of 6 December 1973, 3.105 (XXIX) of 14 December 1974, 3401 A (XXXl of 28 November 1975, .1401 B (XXX) of 9 December 1975, 311160 of 2 i 87 A/S-11/14, annex I. Decemher 1976, 321108 of 15 December 1977, 33179 of 15 December 88 A/36/513. 1978. 34/97 of Ll Dtscemher 1979 and .15165 of 5 December 1980.

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