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

A/RES/39/209View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1985.

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?

7 subjects

Access to the Sea Financial Assistance Landlocked Developing Countries Technical Cooperation Transit Transit Countries Transport Infrastructure

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

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Recalling the provisions of its resolutions 3 I/ 15 7 of 21 December 1976, 32/191 of 19 December 1977, 33/150 of 20 December 1978, 34/ l 98 of 19 December 1979, 35/58 of 5 December 1980 and 36/175 of I 7 December I 98 I and other resolutions of the United Nations relating to the particular needs and problems of land-locked developing countries,

Bearing in mind various other resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, its related organs and the specialized agencies, emphasizing special and urgent measures in favour of land-locked developing countries,

Recalling the relevant provisions of the International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade, 14''

Recalling the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. 141 adopted on 10 December 1982,

Recognizing that the lack of territorial access to the sea, aggravated by remoteness and isolation from world markets, and the prohibitive transit, transport and trans-shipment costs impose serious constraints on the socio-economic development of land-locked developing countries,

/Voting with concern that the measures taken so far m favour of land-locked developing countries and the assistance given fall far short of their needs,

Reaffirms the nght of access of land-locked countries to and from the sea and freedom of transit through the territory of transit States by all means of transport, in accordance with article 125 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea;

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 resolution 63 (III), 98 (IV), 123 (V) and 137

(VI) 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 Countries 142 and in other relevant resolutions of the United Nations:

Urges all concerned countries as well as international organizations to provide land-locked developing countries with the appropriate financial and technical assistance in the form of grants or concessional loans for the construction and improvement of their transpor1 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 all land-locked developing countries to help offset the adverse effects of their disadvantageous geographical situation on their economic development efforts, in keeping with the overall development needs of each land-locked developing country;

Invites transit countries and the land-locked developing countries to co-operate effectively in harmonizing transport planning and promoting other joint ventures in the field of transpor1 at the regional, subregional and bilateral levels;

Further invites the international community to give financial, technical and other support to interested transit and land-locked developing countries in the construction of alternative routes to the sea:

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 landlocked developing countries and invites them to continue to take appropriate and effective measures to respond to the specific needs of those countries;

Recommends continued and intensified activities relating to the conducting of necessary studies and the implementation of special actions and specific measures 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:

Takes note of the report of the Ad Hoe Group of Experts to Study Ways and Means of Improving Transittransport Infrastructures and Services for Land-Locked Developing Countries; 141

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Requests Member States to transmit to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development their views and comments on the repor1 of the Ad Hoe Group of Experts;

Requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to submit to the General Assembly at its fortieth session a report on the geographical disadvantages of land-locked developing countries and their consequences for the development of those countries.

134 See Official Records of the General Assemhly. Thmy-ntnth Session, Suf~lement No. 25 (A/39/25), annex.

5 !bid., Supplement No. 15 (A/39/15). vol. II, secl. IIA resolution 295 (XXIX), para. 6.

136 See Proceedings of the United Natwns 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.

I 37 Ibid., Fourth Session, vol. I, Report and Annexe,· (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.76JI.D.I0 and corrigendum). part one. sec1. A.

I 38 find .. F(/ih Sesswn. vol. I. Rcport and .·111111'.\I'., (l ln,Jed Na11ons pubhcation, Sales No. E.79.11.D.l4). part one. sect. A.

139 f/,,d .. S,xth Session. vol. I Report and Anrw,n (I lnitcd Nations puhhcatmn. Sales No. E.83.11.D.6). part one. ,ert. A 140 See resolution 35/56. annex.

141 Oft,c,a/ R,n,rds of the Thml l 'mted lVatwns Confi·n•nce 011 the LaH of thc Sea. vol. XVII (United Na11on, puhhcat1on. Sales No. F.84.V._1). document •\ '( '( lNF.62 122

142 Report cf the l 1nlled Nat1otVi ( ,infcrctu·c on the Least /)evelop('d 144 See General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Ba.He hnr,1111,c·w, ,u1d Cuuntnes. Pans. 1-14 Scptcmlw N8/ (llmtcd Nauons publicalion. Sales \elected Docwnents, .\~u,,,,/ement l'•/o. ~..,() (Saks No (iATT I il~ 1 I) docu No. E.82.1.8). part one, sect. A.

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