A/RES/3037(XXVII) GA

Resolutions adoptNI on the reports o_f__'lie Second Comm_ittee_-____________ _ t<) enable him to submit periodic reports to the Trade and Development Board. 2 I I 5th 11/enary meeting 19 December 1972 :\037 ( X'\. VII). Chari Pr of the t•eonomie rights and 1]utiP~ of ~talP!-1 The General Assembly, Havin~ considered the report of the United Nations Confcre~cc on Trade and Development on its third session,94 Decides to enlarge the composition of the Working Group on the Chartc~ of the Economi~ Rights and Duties of States established under resolutrnn 45 (III) of 18 May 1972 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 9 " and authori~es t~e Secr~- tary-Gcncral of the Conference to appomt mne addi- tional members, in consultation with Governments of member States. ] 1 I 5 th plenary meeting 19 December 1972 3038 (XXVII). Dissemination of information and mohilization of public opinion regarding prohl1•1ns of trade and development The General Assembly, Bearing in mind paragraph 84 of the International Devclu11mcnt Strnteg:y for the Second United Nations Development Decade/'; relating to the mobilization of public opinion, Recalling its resolution 2800 ( XXVI) of 14 De- cember 1971, regarding the dissemination of informa- tion and the mobilization of public opinion relative to the review and appraisal of progress in the implementa- tion of the International Development Strategy, Noting with satisfaction resolution 43 (III) of 17 May 1972,97 in which the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development proposed a series of spe- cific measures for the dissemination of information and the mobilization of public opinion relative to problems of trade and development, Noting aha agreed conclusion 89 (XII) of 20 Octo- ber 1972, 98 adopted on the subject by the Trade and Development Board at the first part of its twelfth ses- sion, Convinced that improvement in the dissemination of information and the mobilization of public opinion, particularly among young people, would be an im- portant factor for greater awareness of the general problems of development and would thus promote the increased efforts required in the sphere of interna- ~4 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade "nd Development, Third Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication. Sales No.: E.73.II.D.4). !l5 fbid., annex I.A. HG Resolution 2626 (XXV). !J7 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. !i8 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty- seventh St'ssion, Supplement No. 15 (A/8715/Rev.1), part one, annex I. tional co-operation for development and the success of the International Development Strategy, 1. Decides to institute a World Development In- formation Day with the object of drawing the attention of world public opinion each year to development prob- lems and till'. necessity of ~trcngthcning international co-operation to solve them; 2. Further decides that the date for this day shall coincide in principle with United Nations Day, 24 October, which is also the date on which the Interna- tional Development Strategy for the Second Nations Development Decade was adopted in 1970; 3. Invites the Tracie and Development Board to study at its fifth special session, devoted to the review and appraisal of the Second United Nations Develop- ment Decade, the preliminary report of the Secretary- General of the United Nations, 11" as well as the interim report requested of the Secretary-General of the U nit~d Nations Conference on Trade and Development 111 agreed conclusion 89 (XII); 4. Requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations to prepare, for the fifth special session of the Trade and Development Board, a detailed report elab- oratin~ the elements outlined in his preliminary report; 5. ~Further invites the Secretary-General o( the United Nations to indicate in the detailed report men- tioned in paragraph 4 above what measures he is c~m- sidering, in accordance with paragraph 5 of resolution 43 (II]) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, to strengthen the informatiC?n serv- ices of the Conference and to regroup them, 111 close liaison with the Office of Public Information, in par- ticular the Centre for Economic and Social Informa- tion and other United Nations information sources, in an information unit responsible for giving wider pub- licity to the debates and decisions of the Conference concerning problems of trade and development and to the objectives of the International Development Strategy of concern k• the Conference; 6. Requests the Trade and Development Board at its fifth special session to outline a programme of events for World Development Information Day in 1973 and to make specific proposals to that end; 7. Requests the Economic and Social Council at its fiftv-fifth session, taking into consideration the report of the Trade and Development Board on its fifth spe- cial sc:,sion, to draw up a programme of events for World Development Information Day in 1971. 2 l l 5th plenary meeting 19 nc,emher 1972 :10;19 (XXVII). External debt servtcmg hv the devPloping countriPi;1 The General A ssemf1ly, Mind! ul of the purposes set forth in Article 55 of the Charter of the United Nations, which specifics that the United Nations should promote higher standards of living, full employment. and conditions of economic and social progress and development, Recalfing its resolutions 2170 (XXI) of 6 December 1966, 2415 (XXTJI) of 17 December 1968 and 2807 (XXVI) of 14 December 1971 concerning the need n9 A/8893.

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