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

A/RES/40/183View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 84c Trade and development, published in 1986.

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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

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Access to the Sea Development Assistance Economic Cooperation Among Developing Countries Financial Assistance Financial Flows International Financial Institutions International Organizations Joint Ventures Landlocked Developing Countries Programme Implementation Regional Commissions Technical Cooperation Transit Transit Countries Transport Infrastructure Transport Planning

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Reaffirms the right 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 resolutions 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 Countries42 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 appropriate financial and technical assistance in the form of grants or concessional loans for the construction, maintenance 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 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 in promoting other joint ventures in the field of transport 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;

Once again requests Member States to transmit to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development their views and comments on the report of the Ad Hoe Group of Experts to Study Ways and Means of Improving Transit-transport Infrastructures and Services for Land-locked Developing Countries:

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Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General of the Pnited Nations Conference on Trade and Development on progress in the implementation of specific action related to the particular needs and problems of landlocked developing countries,4' submitted pursuant to resol.ution 39 '20Q, and requests him to prepare another such

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V. 32 See Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Reporr u/ the FAO World Conference on Fisheries Mana!(ement and De .. e/opmem. Rome, 27 June-6 July 1984 (Rome, 1984). 33 Official Records of the General Assembly. Forlleth Sesswn. Supplemrnt No. /9(A/40/ I 9). 34 !hid, Supplement No. 52 (A/40/52) 35 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trad,· und Development, Third Session, vol. I, Report and Annnes (United Nations publication. Sales No. E.73.ILD.4). annex IA 36 Ibid., Fourth Session, voL I, Report und Annnes (United Nation, publication. Sales No. E.76.ILD.10 and corrigendum). part one, S<'<·t I\ l_4_5 -17 Jina. Fl/ih Sessum, voL I. Report and Annexes (United Nations puMication, Sab No. E.79.ILD.14). part one. sect. A. 18 /hid. Snth Semon, voL L Report and Annexes (United Naltons puhl1- ca1ton, Sales No. E.83.ILD.6), part one, sect. A. 39 See Olfina/ Records o( the Ucneral Assemhlr. fi>rti,•th Session. Supplement N,, 15 (A.'40-'15). vol. II. se<·t. L 40 Offinal Records of the Third ( 'mted Natwns ( ·onji-ro1et' on th,· 1,aK o( the s,,a, vol. XVII (Umted Nations publication, Sales No. E.84.V.1). document Nt 'ONF.62/ 122. 41 Offinul Records ,fth,, Trad,, und Development Board. '! wentr-nuuh ,\e\·- \/O'I. I nnnn. agenda ,tern 6, dr,rnment TD/B/1002

General As..embly- 1-'ortieth Session 42 Report of the l'rw,,d !liat,ons Confereme on the Leas/ Developed 43 A/40/815. annex Countne.<. Pam. i-14 Seprnnber 1981 (United Nations publication. Sales 44TD/C'ODE TOT14<l. sect. IV. No. E.82.1 81, part, 11e. st'CL A.

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