United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries

A/RES/36/194View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 69p United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, published in 1982.

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

Least Developed Countries Programmes of Action

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Expresses its appreciation to the Government and the people of France for acting as host to the United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, as well as for their gracious hospitality, excellent arrangements and important contribution to the outcome of the Conference;

Calls upon all Member States as well as intergov 3. ernmental and multilateral institutions, the organs, organi zations and bodis of the United Nations system, and all others concerned to take immediate, concrete and adequate steps to implement the Substantial New Programme of Ac tion as part of the international action for the establishment of a new international economic order;

Emphasizes that, in view of their desperate socio economic plight, the least developed countries need the urgent and special attention and the large-scale and con tinued support of the international community to enable them to progress towards self-reliant development, consis tent with their own plans and programmes;

Strongly urges all donor countries to implement their commitments, as stated in paragraphs 61 to 69 of the Sub stantial New Programme of Action, so as to achieve, in that regard, a substantial increase of assistance for the devel opment of the least developed countries;

Reaffirms that the least developed countries have primary responsibility for their over-all development and that, although international support measures are vitally im portant, the domestic policies those countries pursue will be of critical importance for the success of their development efforts;

Urges all donor countries to make adeqnate special allocation to the Special Measures Fund for the Least De veloped Countries of the United Nations Development Pro gramme and the United Nations Capital Development Fund, or through other suitable channels for the least developed countries, in order to provide the extra resources needed by the Governments of those countries for more intensive plan ing efforts, feasibility studies and project preparation over the first half of the decade of the 1980s and, for that purpose, invites the Administrator of the United Nations Develop ment Programme to take appropriate action to mobilize ad ditional resources for the activities under his administration;

Decides that regular review and monitoring of the progress in the implementation of the Substantial New Pro gramme of Action at the national, regional and global levels should be undertaken, as envisaged in that Programme, to maintain the momentum of commitments made by the in ternational community and to promote the implementation of the plans and programmes of the least developed countries with a view to achieving accelerated 'growth rates and struc tural transformation of their economies;

Decides also that the Intergovernmental Group on the Least Developed Countries of the United Nations Con ference on Trade and Development at its high-level meeting in 1985 shall carry out the mid-term review, consider the possibility of holding a global review at the end of the decade, which might, inter alia, take the form of a United Nations conference on the least developed countries, and readjust, as appropriate. the Substantial New Programme of Action for the second half of the decade in order to ensure its full implementation, and further decides that the results shall be made available to it, so that they may be taken fully into account in the review and appraisal of the implemen tation of the International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade;

Calls upon States, organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system and other relevant agencies to give favourable response to invitations to participate in aid consultative groups or other arrangements to be estab lished at the initiative of the least developed countries in accordance with paragraphs 110 to 116 of the Substantial New Programme of Action as a mechanism for the regular and periodic review and implementation of that Programme and suggests that the first round of review meetings for that purpose at the country level should take place as soon as possible, preferably by 1983;

Invites the governing bodies of appropriate organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to take the necessary and appropriate measures for the effective implementation and follow-up of the Substantial New Pro gramme of Action within their respective spheres of com petence and mandates;

Decides further to ensure that resources that will be made available to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and other appropriate organs, or ganizations and bodies of the United Nations system are adequate for the effective follow-up, review, monitoring and implementation of the Substantial New Programme of Action, including those specified in the report of the Secretary-General on the secretariat services required, 150 as well as in paragraph 8 of the present resolution;

Requests the Secretary-General, in conformity with paragraph 123 of the Substantial New Programme of Action, to entrust the Director-General for Development and Inter national Economic Co-operation, in close collaboration with the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the executive secretaries of the regional commissions and the lead agencies for the aid groups, with the responsibility of ensuring at the Secretariat level the full mobilization and co-ordination of all organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system for the purpose of implementation and follow-up of the Sub stantial New Programme of Action and, for this purpose, to retain and effectively utilize the system of focal points in each United Nations agency. which was used in the prep arations for the United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its thirty-seventh session on the implementation of the present resolution.

146 Resolution 35/56, annex, para. 136.

147 See Proceedings ()f the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Fifth Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.79.11.D.14). part one, sect. A.

14' Report of the United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Coumries, Paris. 1-14 September 1981 (United Nations publication. Sales No. E.82.1.8). pan one, sect. A

V. 149 United Nations publication, Sales No. E.82.1.8. 1'0 A/361660.

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