Commodities

A/RES/58/204View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 91g Commodities, published in 2004.

What other versions does this mandate have?

22 versions · 1987–2025

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2025).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/124	Commodities	4,596	—Compare
2023	A/RES/78/138	Commodities	4,462	—Compare
2022	A/RES/76/194	Commodities	3,918	—Compare
2020	A/RES/74/204	Commodities	3,441	—Compare
2018	A/RES/72/205	Commodities	3,586	—Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

6 reports · 2004–2023

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2023	A/78/231	World commodity trends and prospects report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/194
2021	A/76/215	World commodity trends and prospects report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/74/204
2019	A/74/232	World commodity trends and prospects report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/72/205
2017	A/72/254	World commodity trends and prospects report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/70/191
2015	A/70/184	World commodity trends and prospects report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/68/203

What’s in this document?

16 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Meeting of Eminent Persons on Commodity Issues, held at Geneva on 22 and 23 September 2003,¹³ and expresses appreciation for the work of the eminent persons;

¹³A/58/401.

Emphasizes the need for efforts by the developing countries that are heavily dependent on primary commodities to continue to promote a domestic policy and an institutional environment that encourage diversification and liberalization of the trade and export sectors and enhance competitiveness;

Encourages donor Governments and organizations to increase their financial and technical support for activities aimed at addressing commodity issues, in particular the needs and problems of commodity-dependent developing countries;

Stresses the importance of a speedy resumption and successful conclusion of the work programme adopted at the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization,Error: Reference source not found taking into account the needs of the commodity-dependent developing countries;

Invites the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and other relevant bodies and organs of the United Nations system to continue to mainstream and accord high priority to programmes on commodity-related issues within their respective mandates;

Welcomes regular consideration of commodity issues by the Trade and Development Board of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development;

Invites non-governmental organizations, civil society and the private sector to initiate programmes of assistance and other innovative initiatives in support of commodity-dependent developing countries;

Notes the relevance to appropriate governing bodies in the United Nations system and to international commodity bodies of the report of the Meeting of Eminent Persons on Commodity Issues, as well as the summary of discussions in the Trade and Development Board and the Second Committee of the General Assembly, which highlight the importance of finding lasting solutions to the problems faced by commodity-dependent developing countries in their pursuit of the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration;Error: Reference source not found

Urges Governments and invites international financial institutions to continue to assess the effectiveness, including the operationalization and user-friendliness, of the systems for compensatory financing of export-earnings shortfalls, and in this regard stresses the importance of empowering developing-country commodity producers to insure themselves against risk, including natural disasters;

Invites donor countries and development partners to support the efforts of commodity-dependent developing countries to add value to their products, and reiterates the importance of making progress on the Doha work programme to ensure the sustainability of those efforts;

Requests the Secretary-General to undertake further open and transparent discussions with all relevant stakeholders on enhancing the impact of the set of existing instruments to support commodity-dependent developing countries in their efforts to diversify their exports, overcome supply-side constraints, strengthen institutions and build knowledge and technical capacity;

Calls upon the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and invites other relevant bodies and organs of the United Nations system, as well as other relevant international organizations, to strengthen coherently and within their respective mandates their capacity-building and technical cooperation activities in the fields of policy design and implementation, institution-building, management and utilization of commodity revenues, management of price risk and improvement of supply capacities, including the ability to satisfy quality and other requirements for market entry, and to enhance activities aimed at South-South cooperation in the field of commodities, share experiences and identify best practices for dealing with oversupply situations;

Invites the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and all relevant international organizations to continue to analyse trends in commodities and their impact on the development of commodity-dependent developing countries, including on debt sustainability;

Invites the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the Common Fund for Commodities and all other relevant organizations to provide useful, timely, accurate, comprehensive and user-friendly information and analysis on commodities and to enable the use of this information by commodity-dependent developing countries;

Requests the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat to undertake, within existing budgetary resources, initiatives and activities to raise awareness of the commodities issue and keep it a high priority of Governments, the international community, media, academia and all other relevant stakeholders;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, taking into account the provisions of Assembly resolution 57/236.

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