Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries

A/RES/64/213View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 56a 3rd United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, published in 2010.

What other versions does this mandate have?

13 versions · 1989–2012

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/66/213

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2012	A/RES/66/213	Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries	1,668	16%Compare
2011	A/RES/65/171	Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries	1,533	25%Compare
2010	A/RES/64/213	Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries	1,119	22%Compare
2008	A/RES/62/203	Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries	1,623	57%Compare
2007	A/RES/61/211	Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries	1,140	22%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

11 reports · 2002–2012

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2012	A/67/262	Ensuring the effective implementation of the functions of the Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States and strengthening its capabilities and its effectiveness, as well as the effectiveness of the United Nations system support provided to least developed countries report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/66/213
2012	A/67/88	Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011-2020 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/66/213
2010	A/65/80	Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/64/213
2008	A/63/77	Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/62/203
2007	A/62/322	Advocacy strategy on the effective and timely implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/61/211

What subjects does this mandate have?

15 subjects

Bretton Woods Institutions Budget Contributions Civil Society Conferences Coordination Within UN System Country Teams Information Dissemination Least Developed Countries Non-Governmental Organizations Private Sector Public Information Reporting Procedures Resident Coordinators Trust Funds Türki̇ye

What’s in this document?

14 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010;⁹

⁹A/64/80-E/2009/79 and Corr.1.

Also takes note of the progress being made in the preparatory process for the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries;

Welcomes and accepts with appreciation the offer of the Government of Turkey to host the Conference;

Decides to convene the Conference in the first half of 2011 for a duration of five days, from within existing resources, at a venue and time to be determined in consultation with the host Government;

Also decides that the meeting of the intergovernmental preparatory committee envisaged in paragraph 5 of resolution 63/227 will be organized in New York in two parts, from 10 to 14 January 2011 and from 18 to 25 April 2011, each of five working days;

Requests the Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, as the focal point for the preparations for the Conference, as requested in resolution 63/227, to ensure effective, efficient and timely preparations for the Conference and to further mobilize and coordinate the active involvement of the organizations of the United Nations system;

Requests the organizations of the United Nations system, including the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the regional commissions, the specialized agencies, and funds and programmes, and invites the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organization and other relevant international and regional organizations, within their respective mandates, to provide necessary support and actively contribute to the preparatory process and to the Conference itself;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure, as appropriate, the full involvement of resident coordinators and country teams in preparations for the Conference, in particular in country- and regional-level preparations;

Invites Governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, major groups and other donors to contribute to the Trust Fund for the participation of representatives of the least developed countries in both the preparatory process and the Conference itself;

Recognizes the importance of the contributions of all relevant stakeholders, including parliaments, civil society, non-governmental organizations and the private sector, to the Conference and its preparatory process, stresses, in this regard, the need for active participation, including from the least developed countries, and invites donors to make appropriate contributions for that purpose;

Requests the Secretary-General, with the assistance of concerned organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, including the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat, in collaboration with the Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, to take the necessary measures to intensify their public information efforts and other appropriate initiatives to enhance public awareness in favour of the Conference, including by highlighting its objectives and its significance;

Emphasizes the importance of country-level preparations as a critical input to the preparatory process for the Conference and the implementation of and follow-up to its outcome, and calls upon the Governments of the least developed countries to submit their reports in a timely manner;

Requests the executive secretaries of the Economic Commission for Africa and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, in close coordination and cooperation with the Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, to provide the necessary substantive and organizational arrangements and to organize the regional-level preparatory review meetings in the context of the annual sessions of 2010 of their respective commissions, as called for by the General Assembly in its resolution 63/227;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session a report on the further implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010 as well as on the implementation of the present resolution, including the state of the substantive, organizational and logistic preparations for the Conference.

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