A/RES/3035(XXVII) GA

Resolutions adopted on the reports of the Second Committ.-e SI including the structural reforms that may be neces- sary; 3. Invites developed countries to consider ways of enlarging the volume of their concessionary assistance and thus enhance the capacity of developing countries to eradicate mass poverty and unemployment among the poorest sections of their communities; 4. Urges organizations within the United Nations system, in co-operation with the Secretary-General, to give due consideration to the development and im- plementation of measures to assist the developing coun- tries in raising the level of living of their low-income groups; 5. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its twenty-eighth session, through the Economic and Social Council, on the progress of the implementation of the present resolution. 2113th plenary meeting 18 December 1972 3019 (XXVII). United Nations Fund for Population Activities The General Assembly, Recalling its invitation and the requests set forth in its resolution 2815 (XXVI) of 14 December 1971, W elcomin.g the Secretary-General's note82 with in- terim recommendations requiring urgent action to achieve improvements in the administrative machinery of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities aimed at the efficient and expeditious delivery of pop- ulation programmes, Expressing its appreciation to the fifty-two Member States which, to date, have responded to that invitation and have pledged financial support to the United Na- tions Fund for Population Activities, Noting from the information given by the Secretary- General that the administration of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities has been reorganized over the past year in order to make even more effective use of its staff and resources, Noting further that the resources of the United Na- tions Fund for Population Activities and its scope of operations have now grown to a size which makes its supervision by an intergovernmental body desir- able, Expressing further its appreciation to the Adminis- trator of the United Nations Development Programme and to the Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities for their efforts, which have achieved the significant results of the past year, Noting also the recommendation of the Secretary- General to change the character of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities from a trust fund of the Secretary-General into a fund established under the authority of the General Assembly, 1. Decides to place the United Nations Fund for Population Activities under the authority of the Gen- eral Assembly; 2. Decides further, without prejudice to the over- all responsibilities and policy functions of the Economic and Social Council, that the Governing Council of s2 A/8899. the United Nations Development Programme, subject to conditions to be established by the Economic and Social Council, shall be the governing body of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities and invites the Governing Council to concern itself with the financial and administrative policies relating to the work programme, the fund-raising methods and the annual budget of the Fund; 3. Invites the Governing Council to organize itself in such a way that it can exercise effectively these func- tions, taking into account the separate identity of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities and its need to operate under the guidance of the Economic and Social Council, in close relationship with inter- ested Governments and with appropriate international and national bodies, governmental and non-govern- mental, interested in population activities; 4. Authorizes the Governing Council, at its fifteenth session, to apply to the United Nations Fund for Pop- ulation Activities funding principles similar to those of the United Nations Development Programme and to establish the necessary financial rules and regula- tions, subject to consideration by the Governing Coun- cil of a report, prepared by the Executive Director of the Fund in consultation with the Administrator of the Programme, and of the full implications thereof; 5. Requests the Governing Council to consider further steps necessary to achieve improvements in the administrative and operational machinery of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, to inform the Economic and Social Council in its annual report of those further steps taken to implement General As- sembly resolution 2815 (XXVI) and the present resolution and to submit annually a report on the activi- ties of the Fund to the Economic and Social Council; 6. Renews its invitation to interested Governments to make voluntary contributions to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities without prejudice to the agreed level of growth of contributions to the United Nations Development Programme and devel- opment assistance in general. 2113th plenary meeting 18 December 1972 3035 (XXVII). Code of conduct for linn conferences The General Assembly, Welcoming the unanimous agreement reached by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development at its third session, held at Santiago, Chile, from 13 April to 21 May 1972, that there was an urgent need for adopting and implementing a universally acceptable code of conduct to regulate the activities of liner con- ferences, which fully takes into account the special needs and problems of the developing countries, Recalling resolution 66 (III) of 19 May 1972 en- titled "Draft code of conduct for liner conferences" adopted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development/3 83 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Third Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No.: E.73.11.D.4), annex I.A. 52 General Assembly-Twenty-seventh Session ----------------------- 1. Requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations to convene as early as possible in I 973, under the auspices of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, a conference of plenipotentiaries to consider and adopt a convention or any other multi- lateral legally binding instrument on a code of con- duct for liner conferences; 2. Decides to establish, also under the auspices of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Develop- ment, a Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on a Code of Conduct for Liner Con- ferences, consisting of forty-eight members to be ap- pointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Developments4 with the same distribution between the diff crent regional areas as was established for the fourth session of the Working Group on International Shipping Legislation, with the addition of two members from each regional area; 3. Also decides that the Preparatory Committee shall prepare the draft of a convention or any other multilateral legally binding instrument on a code of conduct for liner conferences for submission to the conference of plenipotentiaries referred to in paragraph 1 above; 4. Decides further that the fir,t session of the Pre- paratory Committee should be convened as early as possible and that the final session should be held at least two months before the conference of plenipo- tentiaries; 5. Recommends that the Preparatory Committee should take into consideration, as a basis for its work: (a) The draft code of conduct for liner conferences annexed to resolution 66 (IH) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development: (b) The report of the debates on this subject by the Fourth Committee of the United Nations Con- ference on Trade and Development at its third ses- sion, 85 including an informal exchange of views on the draft code of conduct for liner conferences and a sum- ming-up by the Chairman of that Crn1mittee; ( c) The report of the secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development en- titled Regulation of Liner Conferences/n (d) The report of the Working Group on Interna- tional Shipping Legislation on its third session.~. 2 I 15th plenary meeting 19 December 1972 84 The Preparatory Committee will be composed of the following States: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bul- garia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, c,_echoslovakia, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, German Democratic Re- public, Germ;iny, Federal Republic of, Ghana, Greece, Hun- gary, Indi'.l, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq. Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Madagascar, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines. Poland. Romania, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Thailand. Uganda. Union of Soviet Socialist Repub- lics, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United Republic of Tanzar1ia, United Slates of America, Uru- guay, Venezuela, Yugoslavia w1d Zaire. 8~ See Procecdinrts of tlie U11it<'d Nations Conferenc<' 011 Trade and Dcvelopmc11t, Third Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No.: E.73.IT.D.4). annex VI.D. 86 United Nations publication, Sales N,1.: E.72.ILD. l3 and Corr. I. 87 TD/B/C.4/93. 3036 (XXVII). SpPcial measm·«·s in favour of the least developt•d among the developing countries The General Assembly, Having consiciercci the report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on its third session88 and the report of the Trade and Development Uoard for the period from 22 September 1971 to 25 October 1972, ~~ Bearing in mind the joint statement by eight so- cialist countries at the twrnty-fifth sL"ssinn of the General Assembly concerning the Second United Na- tions Development Decade and social progrcss90 and their declaration at the third session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Dcvelopment,01 Conscious that the production capacity and trade flows of the least developed among the developing countries have been and continue to be extremely low, and that it is urgent for the commercial policy measures which arc applied to all developing countries to be supplemented by liberal and considerably larger con- tributions of financial and technical ;1ssistancc for tit, least developed countries, in order lo eliminate the existing bottle-neck in their economy .1t the production level, Recognizing that the relevant provisions of resolu- tion 62 (lll) of 19 May 1972 adopted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and n~·vclopment9~ and of the International Development Strategy for the Sec- ond United Nations Development Decade"': must be applied in practice as soon as possible, 1. Endorses resolution 62 (III) unanimously adopted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development at its third session; 2. Requests the specialized agencies concerned and other United Nations bodies, as well as the regional economic commissions and the United Nations Eco- nomic and Social Office at Beirut, to initiate and ac- celerate the implementation of their action programmes in favour of the least developed countries in the areas within their competence and to submit periodic reports on the matter to the General Assemblv throu!!,h the Economic and Social Council; • ~ 3. Also requests aL! States members of the United Nations ConfcrencL· on Trade ;111d lkvelopmcnt, espe- cially developed countries, to implement urgently the special measures in favuur nf the kast developed coun- tries contained in Conference resolution 62 (III) and to continue to review the measures they have taken in favour of these countries, as well a, ivavs and means of carrying out those measures, and !,) 1mwide infor- mation to the Senetar_y-General of the l Jnited Nations Conference, on Trade and Development 011 actions taken in connexion with the considcratinn and imple- mentation ot thL' recommendations nf the Conference, SR See Procccdinis of the United !\'a1io11., C,>11{cu·11ce 011 Trade and Dcv,·lopmen/, Third Session. vol. I, J?cport and Annexes !United Nations publication, Sales No.: E.73.Il.D.4). ,n Official Records of the (;,•neml Assembl\', Twc111r-sevn11/i S1·ssio11, SurplcmPnt No. 15 ( A/8715.IRev.1). - !IO Ibid_, Twent,· filth .'ic.,s1<111, A1111ncs. ;igcnda itc1n 42. docu- 11,ent A/8074. 111 See Proceedings of the United Nutions C,mferen,·c on 'frade and Dei·c/opment, Third Session, vol. I, Rf'['or/ and Annexes (United Nations publication, Saks No.: E.73.11.D.4), annex VIII.G. !12 Jhid. 11~ Resolution 2626 (X)(V).

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