United Nations Financing System for Science and Technology for Development

A/RES/41/183View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12 Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1987.

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3 versions · 1982–1987

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1987	A/RES/41/183	United Nations Financing System for Science and Technology for Development	365	20%Compare
1986	A/RES/40/194	United Nations Financing System for Science and Technology for Development	527	14%Compare
1982	A/RES/36/183	United Nations Financing System for Science and Technology for Development	1,428	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Budget Contributions Dissolution Establishment Inter-Agency Cooperation Science and Technology Financing

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Decides to terminate the United Nations Financing System for Science and Technology for Development as at 31 December 1986 and to transfer its responsibilities and resources to an identifiable facility entitled "United Nations Fund for Science and Technology for Development", to be established as a trust fund within the United Nations Development Programme;

Requests the Intergovemmental Committee on Science and Technology for Development to provide policy guidance and priorities for activities of the Fund within the framework ofthe Vienna Programme of Action on Science and Technology for Development;38 3.

Requests the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, when identifying projects to be financed from the Fund, to take into account the policy guidance and priorities recommended by the Committee and to report to the Committee on their application;

Requests the Director-General for Development and International Economic Co-operation and the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme to establish close working relationships between the Fund and the Centre for Science and Technology for Development on programmatic and substantive matters, and requests the Secretary-General to inform the Committee at its ninth session about the arrangements made;

Requests the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme to inform the Committee at its ninth session on the arrangements made for the Fund;

Invites Governments and the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme to give greater emphasis to science and technology for development;

Urges all Governments and the international community as a whole to provide the Fund with adequate financia! resources to enable it to carry out its functions.

JS Official Records of" thl! General A.,semblv. Forty-Jir.st Ses.,ion, 34 Resolution 35/56. annt'\.

Supp/em('I/( No. 3' (A/41 /37), sed. 11.A •

36 See Official Records of 1he Economic and Social Council, /986. Supp/eme111 No. 9 (E/1986/29), annex l.

38 Report ofthe United Nalions Conference on Science and Techno/ogy for Development,

Vienna,

20-31 August 1979 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.79.1.21 and corrigenda), chap. VII.

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