Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African States

A/RES/40/186View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

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

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

East Africa Economic Integration Financial Assistance Indicative Planning Figures International Financial Institutions Southern Africa Technical Cooperation Trade Preferences

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

Invites donor Governments to provide substantial financia) and technical assistance to the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African States to accelerate its development into an economic community;

Invites a/so the United Nations Development Programme to continue to make resources available to the Preferential Trade Area from its regional indicative planning figures on an urgent basis;

Calls upan international financia! institutions, particularly the World Bank, the International Development Association, the International Fund for Agricultura) Development and the African Development Bank, to provide immediate assistance to the Preferential Trade Area;

Invites the organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to take into account in their work programmes co-operation with the Preferential Trade Area;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its forty-first session on the implementation of the present resolution.

Resolutions adoptecl on the reports of tbe Second Committee 45 See General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Basic lnstruments and 47 A/S-11/14, annex l. Se/ected Documents, Twenty-ninth Supplement (Sales No. GATI/1983-1),

48 /bid .. annex 11. document U5424.

46 A/40/596.

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