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V. Resolutions adopted on the reports of tbe Second Committee 137 4. Requests the Secretary-General of the United 5. Commends the Governing Council of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, with Nations Development Programme, the United Nations the assistance of experts, if necessary, as envisaged in Conference on Trade and Development and other re- Trade and Development Board decision 144 (XVI), to lated agencies within the United Nations system for the prepare a report on this subject for consideration by the work and assistance they have provided to the land- Trade and Development Board ami subsequently by the locked developing countries; General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session. 6. Invites the United Nations Development Pro- 34/198. 109th plenary meeting 19 Deccmber J 979 Specific action related to the particular needs and problems of land-locked developing countries The General Assembly, Reiterating the specific actions in favour of the land- locked developing countries, particularly those en- visaged in resolutions 63 (III) of 19 May 1972,16' 98 (IV) of 31 May 197616 ·• and 123 ( V) of 3 June 1979'"" of the United Nations Conferencc nn 'frade and Dc- velopment, Bearing in mind various other resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, its related organs and the special- ized agencies emphasizing special and urgent measures in favour of land-locked developing countries, Recognizing that the lack of access to the sea, ag- gravated by great distances to seaports, by remoteness and isolation from world markets, and by the greater difficulties and costs of their international transport services, constitutes a majar and persistent hindrancc to the social and economic development of the land-locked developing countries, Recalling the provisions of its resolutions 31/157 of 21 December 1976, 32/191 of 19 December 1977 and 33/ 150 of 20 December 1978, and other relevant reso- lutions of the United Nations with respect to the exercise of the right of land-locked developing countries to free access to and from the sea as well as their right to free- dom of transit, 1. Reatfzrms the right of land-locked developing countries to free access to and from the sea and their right to freedom of transit; 2. Calls upon ali countries, intemational organiza- tions and financia! institutions urgently to implement the specific actions related to the particular needs and ptob- lems of land-locked developing countries envisaged in resolutions 63 (111), 98 (N) and 123 (V) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and in other relevant resolutions adopted by the United Nations; 3. Notes with regret that the assistance given thus far falls far short of the needs of the land-locked de- veloping countries; 4. Urges all donor countries as well as the interna- tional organizations concerned to provide land-locked developing countries with appropriate financia! aid and assistance in the form of grants or concessional loans for the construction, improvement and maintenance of their transport and transit infrastructures and facilities; 164 See Proceedings o/ the United Nations Co11fere11ce on Trade and Development, Third Session, vol. I, Report a11d Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.73.II.D.4), annex I.A. 165 lbid., Fourth Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.76.II.D.10 and corrigendum), part one, sect. A. 168 lbid., Fifth Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.79.II.D.14), part one, sect. A. gramrne and the financia! institutions of the United Na- tions system to take appropriate and effective measures in order to provide additional resources within their spheres of competence to meet the particular needs of the land-locked developing countries; 7. Invites the Preparatory Committee for the New International Development Strategy to take fully into account, in the formulation of the strategy for the third United Nations development decade, the special prob- lems relating to land-locked developing countries; 8. Further invites the international community to give financia! support to interested transit and land- locked dcveloping countries in the construction of alter- nate routes to the sea; 9. Recommends intensified activities relating to the conducting of necessary studies and the implementation of special actions and action programmes, including those under "economic co-operation among developing countries", as well as those under the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, at the regional and subregional levels, in co-operation with the regional commissions. 109th plenary meeting 19 December 1979 34/ 199. Multilateral trade negotiations The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 3201 (S-VI) and 3202 (S-VI) of 1 May 1974, containing the Declaration and the Pro- gramme of Action on the Establishment of a New Tnternational Economic Order, 3281 (XXIX) of 12 De- cember 197 4, containing the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States, and 3362 (S-VII) of 16 September 1975 on development and intemational economic co-operation, Considering that the Tokyo Declaration of 1973 167 called for the Tokyo round of multilateral trade negotia- tions and set forth the framework, principies and objec- tives to govern the negotiations, especially the objectives and commitments in favour of developing countries, particularly those regarding the principie of non- reciprocity in trade relations between developed and developing countries, the special and differential treat- ment for developing countries and the securing of addi- tional benefits for the international trade of developing countries and the maintaining and improving of the generalized system of preferences, Bearing in mind the modified part four of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade stipulating, inter alia, that the developed countries should not expect recipro- city in their trade relations with developing countries, Recalling also its resolution 33/199 of 29 January 1979, in which it, inter alia, reiterated the need for con- tinued efforts aimed at the reform of the General Agree- ment on Tariffs and Trade and the international trade 167 See General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Basic lnstru- ments and Selected Documents, Twentieth Supplemmt (Sales No. GATI/1974-1), p. 19.

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