A/RES/36/145 GA

108 General Assembly-Thirty-sixth Session Believing that the establishment of an orderly and equi- table conduct of trade in textiles and clothing is in the interest of all countries, Noting that negotiations are in progress at Geneva on the revision or modification of the Arrangement, 1. Appeals to all countries participating in the current negotiations on the Arrangement regarding International Trade in Textiles, in particular to developed countries, to show the necessary political will and spirit of mutual ac- commodation, inter alia, to achieve an expansion of trade in textiles and clothing, a reduction of the barriers to such trade and the progressive liberalization of world trade in textile products, while at the same time ensuring the orderly and equitable development of such trade and avoiding dis- ruptive effects in individual markets and on individual lines of production in both importing and exporting countries; 2. Recalls that one of the principal aims of the Arrange- ment is to further the economic and social development of developing countries and to secure a substantial increase in their export earnings from textile trade; 3. Requests the Secretary-General to transmit the text of the present resolution to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade for the information of the Contracting Parties and other countries participating in the negotiations. 100th plenary meeting 16 December 1981 36/145. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 320 I (S-VI) and 3202 (S-Vl) of I May 1974, containing the Declaration and the Programme of Action on the Establishment of a New International Eco- nomic Order, 3281 (XXIX) of 12 December 1974, con- taining the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States, and 3362 (S-Vll) of 16 September 1975 on development and international economic co-operation, Recalling also its resolution 35/56 of 5 December 1980, the annex to which contains the International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade, Deeply concerned about the continuing economic crisis, particularly in the developing countries, and the very limited progress in the areas of c!evelopment and international eco- nomic co-operation, Recalling resolution 127 (V) of 3 June 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development54 on eco- nomic co-operation among developing countries, in partic- ular paragraph 13, and in this context the convening of the meeting to be held in 1982 of governmental experts of developing countries in economic co-operation among de- veloping countries to finalize and approve the rules for the launching of negotiations to establish the global system of trade preferences, I. Takes note of the report of the Trade and Develop- ment Board on its twenty-second and twenty-third sessions;55 2. Takes note of Trade and Development Board reso- lution 238 (XXIII) of 9 October 1981. 56 entitled '' Assistance to national liberation movements recognized by regional intergovernmental organizations: Namibia and South Africa"; 54 See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Fifth Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.79.11.D.14), part one, sect. A. " Official Records of the General Assemhlv. Thirt_v-sixth Sesswn, Si.1,- plement No. 15 (A/36/15 and Corr. 11. "Ibid .. part three, annex I. 3. Also takes note of Trade and Development Board resolution 239 (XXIII) of 9 October 1981, 56 entitled "As- sistance to national liberation movements recognized by regional intergovernmental organizations: Palestine''; 4. Takes note with appreciation of the initiative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in preparing, on an annual basis, a trade and development report to assist the Trade and De- velopment Board in its consideration of the world economic situation and of medium-term and longer-term structural changes; 5. Takes note with interest of the intention of the Sec- retary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to provide an in-depth study of the world inflationary phenomenon in response to General Assembly resolution 34/197 of 19 December 1979 and of the agree- ment that the Trade and Development Board would consider the report at its twenty-fifth session; 6. Welcomes Trade and Development Board resolution 226 (XXII) of 20 March 1981, 57 entitled "Protectionism and structural adjustment", by which the Board decided to establish a sessional committee at its twenty-fourth session, and annually thereafter at its first regular session: (a) To conduct the annual review of the patterns of production and trade in the world economy, as provided for in section A of resolution 131 (V) of 3 June 1979 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development;54 (h) To continue to review, along with the subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Conference on Trade and De- velopment concerned. developments involving restrictions of trade, as provided for in section B of Conference reso- lution 131 (V), with a view to examining and formulating appropriate recommendations concerning the general prob- lem of protectionism. 7. Stresses the need to review developments in inter- national trade, including those arising from the implemen- tation of the results of the multilateral trade negotiations, and, in this context, emphasizes that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has an important role to play in considering multilateral trade in general and in formulating principles and policies relating thereto, and notes that proposals in this context are to be further ex- amined at the twenty-fourth session of the Trade and De- velopment Board; 8. Reaffirms the importance of the generalized, non- reciprocal and non-discriminatory system of preferences for expansion and diversification of the export trade of devel- oping countries and for acceleration of the rates of their economic growth and. to that end, of the preference-giving countries implementing fully the agreement reached at its ninth session by the Special Committee on Preferences of the Trade and Development Board;-'8 9. Recalls its resolution 35/60 of 5 December 1980, notes with concern the delay in convening the second session of the Ad Hoe Intergovernmental High-Level Group of Ex- perts on the Evolution of the International Monetary System, requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations Con- ference on Trade and Development to convene the second session of the Group as early as possible in 1982, urges all States members of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to participate and requests that the report of the Group, together with the comments of the Trade and Development Board thereon, should be made available to the General Assembly at its thirty-seventh session; "/hid., part one, annex I. " See Official Records ,,( the Trade and Development Board, Twentv- first Session, Supplement No. 3 (TDIB/802), annex I. V. Resolutions adopted on the reports of the Second Committee 109 10. Urges developed countries to seek to continue to adopt retroactive adjustment of terms, or equivalent meas- ures, in accordance with Trade and Development Board resolutions 165 (S-IX) of 11 March 197859 and 222 (XXI) of 27 September 198()60 on the debt and development prob- lems of developing countries, and strongly urges donor countries which have not already done so to implement fully and immediately section A of Board resolution 165 (S-IX): 11. Requests the Secretary-General of the United Na- tions Conference on Trade and Development to continue, in accordance with Trade and Development Board resolution 165 (S-IX), to keep under close review the application of the detailed features set out in Board resolution 222 (XXI) for further action relating to the debt problems of the de- veloping countries, and urges the implementation of Board resolution 222 (XXI), bearing in mind, as set out in para- graph 15 of that resolution, the agreement to review, at the twenty-sixth session of the Trade and Development Board, the arrangements agreed to in section B of that resolution; 12. Welcomes Trade and Development Board resolution 243 (XXIII) of 9 October 1981, 56 on trade relations among countries having different economic and social systems and all trade flows resulting therefrom, and invites the Trade and Development Board to continue its efforts with a view to arriving at comprehensive decisions in this area at its twenty-fifth session: 13. Endorses Trade and Development Board resolution 242 (XXIII) of 9 October 1981, 56 by which the Board re- quested the Secretary-General of the United Nations Con- ference on Trade and Development, in consultation with the appropriate bodies, to prepare an action-oriented study on the co-operative exchange of skills, and to submit the study, through the Trade and Development Board, to the High- level Committee on the Review of Technical Co-operation among Developing Countries at its third session: 14. Welcomes Trade and Development Board resolu- tions 230 (XXII) of 20 March 198157 and 241 (XXIII) of 9 October 1981,56 by which the Board decided to convene meetings of governmental experts to identify and examine in-depth problems and issues concerning the transfer, ap- plication and development of technology in the food pro- cessing, capital goods, industrial machinery and energy sectors, and urges all Governments and competent inter- national organizations to participate actively in those meet- ings in co-operation with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and other appropriate United Nations bodies; 15. Recalls resolution 127 (V) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development54 and, in that con- text, requests the secretariat of the United Nations Confer- ence on Trade and Development to intensify and complete its work in the priority areas ;ndicated in resolution I (I) of 9 May 1977 of the Committee on Economic Co-operation among Developing Countries, 61 and especially in the areas of trade information systems regarding the foreign trade of developing countries, state trading organizations of devel- oping countries, multinational production and marketing enterprises, a global system of trade preferences among developing countries and monetary and financial co-oper- ation among developing countries, which will underpin the process of economic co-operation among those countries: ,. See Official Records of the General Assemblv, Thirtv-third Session, Supplement No. 15 (A/33/15 and Corr. I), vol. I, ·part two, annex I. 60 Ibid., Thirty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 15 (A/35/15). vol. II, annex I. 61 Official Records of the Trade and Development Board, Seventi'enlh Session, Supplement No. 2 (TD/8/652). annex I. 16. Calls upon all countries that have not yet done so to consider becoming contracting parties to the United Na- tions Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Confer- ences, adopted on 6 April 1974,62 and to the United Nations Convention on International Multimodal Transport of Goods, adopted on 24 May 1980;63 17. Notes the adoption by the Trade and Development Board of the report of the Committee on Shipping on its third special session,64 which contained a resolution calling for the convening of an intergovernmental preparatory group on conditions of registration of vessels; 18. Takes note of the programme of work of the Com- mittee on Commodities, endorsed by the Trade and Devel- opment Board at its twenty-second session, in pursuance of resolutions 93 (IV) of 30 May 197665 and 124 (V) of 3 June 197954 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, on the Integrated Programme for Commodities; 19. Also takes note of the agreement reached on a series of measures designed to rationalize the permanent machin- ery of the United Nations Conference on Trade and De- velopment, contained in Trade and Development Board resolution 231 (XXII) of 20 March 1981 57 and urges its full implementation. 100th plenary meeting 16 December 1981 36/173. Permanent sovereignty over national resources in the occupied Palestinian and other Arab territories The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 34/136 of 14 December 1979. Bearing in mind the relevant principles of international law and the provisions of the international conventions and regulations, in particular Convention IV of The Hague of 1907. 66 and the fourth Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949, 67 concerning the obligations and responsibilities of the occupying Power. Recalling its previous resolutions on permanent sover- eignty over natural resources. particularly their provisions supporting resolutely the efforts of the developing countries and the peoples of territories under colonial and racial dom- ination and foreign occupation in their struggle to regain effective control over their natural and all other resources. wealth and economic activities, Bearing in mind the pertinent provisions of its resolutions 3201 (S-VI) and 3202 (S-VI) of I May 1974, containing the Declaration and the Programme of Action on the Es- tablishment of a New International Economic Order, and 3281 (XXIX) of 12 December 1974, containing the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States. Recalling further its resolutions 3175 (XXVIII) of 17 December 1973. 3336 (XXIX) of 17 December 1974, 3516 "' United Nations Conferena of Plenipotentiaries on a Code ofConducr _fi,r Liner Conferences, vol II. Final Acr (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.75.11.0.12). part one. annex I. "' United Nations Conjerence on a Con\'elltion on International Mul- rimodal Transpo."t, vol. I. Final Acr (United Nations publication. Sales No. E.81.11.0.7 (Vol.!)), annex ""' Official Records of the Trade and Development Board, Twmt_v-third Session, Supplement No. 3 (TD/8/855). "' See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Fourth Session. vol. I. Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.76.II.D. IO and corrigendum). part one, sect. A. "'' Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Hague Com·entions and Dn-larations of 1899 und /907 (New York. Oxford Universily Press). 1915. p. 100. •·• l'nited Nation,. Trem,· Saw,. vol. 75. No. 973. p. 287.

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