United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries

Calls upon ali Governments, intergovernmental and multilateral institutions and others concemed to take appropriate steps to ensure that adequate preparations are made for the Conference and to participate effectively in the two above-mentioned preparatory meetings;

Requests ali concerned organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to submit, before the first preparatory meeting, reports containing a review of the implementation ofthe Substantial New Programme of Action for the 1980s for the Least Developed Countries within their fields of competence and proposals for further action as input to the preparations for the Conference;

Requests the Secretary-General, with the assistance of the Director-General for Development and International Economic Co-operation and the Secretary-General ofthe United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, to ensure the full mobilization and co-ordination of ali organs, organizations and bodies ofthe United Nations system in the preparations for the Conference;

Requests the Secretary-General to obtain, as has been the past practice, extrabudgetary resources to ensure the effective participation of the representatives of the least developed countries through provision of the resources necessary to finance the travel expenses of at least two representatives from each least developed country to attend the preparatory meetings referred to in paragraph 1 above;

Further requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its forty-third session on the state of preparations for the Second U nited N ations Conference on the Least Developed Countries.