Measures to Meet the Critical Situation in the Least Developed Countries

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 7 Assessment of the progress made in the establishment of the New International Economic Order and appropriate action for the promotion of the development of developing countries and international economic cooperation, published in 1980.

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Least Developed Countries

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7 operative paragraphs

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III.RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORT OF THE AD HOC COMMITTEE OF THE ELEVENTH SPECIAL SESSION

Also urges donor countries to make equitable and all possible efforts with a view to doubling, at the earliest possible time within the first half of the 1980s, the flow of official development assistance to the least developed countries, in accordance with the commitments undertaken in paragraph 13 of resolution 122 (V) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and to give serious consideration to this end to the proposal that such a doubling should be in real terms, taking into account the relative performance of donor countries;

Further urges donor countries, in the context of the over-all increase of official development assistance, to give serious consideration, not later than at the United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries to be held in 1981, to the proposals for

further measures to provide an adequate minimum flow of official development assistance, including, inter alia, those proposals for tripling the net disbursement of concessional assistance by 1984 and quadrupling it by 1990 at 1977 prices on a predictable, continuous and assured basis;

Urges an developed countries to provide official development assistance to the least developed countries as a general rule in the form of grants, which should normally be untied;

Calls upon the international community and the organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to take all necessary measures to ensure the success of the United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, which will, inter alia, finalize, adopt and launch the Substantial New Programme of Action for the 1980s, as called for in resolution 122 (V) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development;

Requests multilateral development agencies, including international, interregional, regional and intergovernmental funds, to accord priority to the least developed countries in the programming and allocation of their resources;

Urges all developed countries, developing countries in a position to do so, multilateral development institutions and other sources to extend substantial assistance to the least developed countries for the development of their energy resources;

Requests the Secretary-General to monitor implementation of the measures adopted in favour of the least developed countries, including those of the Immediate Action Programme for 1979-1981, and to report thereon to the Economic and Social Council at its second regular session of 1981 and to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session.

5 Ibid., Thirty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 3 (N35/3/Rev .1),

7 Ibid., Fourth Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes ( United Nachap. II, paras. 7-28.

tions publication, Sales No. E.76.II.D.IO and corrigendum), part 6 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade one, sect. A. and Development, Third Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes 8 Ibid., Fifth Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.73.11.D.4), annex I.A.

publication, Sales No. E.79.II.D.14), part one, sect. A.

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III.RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORT OF THE AD HOC COMMITTEE OF THE ELEVENTH SPECIAL SESSION

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