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A/RES/41/180 GA

Net transfer of resources from developing to developed countries : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

41
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125
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UN Document A/RES/41/180 ↗

Vote Recorded VoteA/41/PV.100 Dec. 12, 1986

1 surprising vote — country whose ideal point predicts the opposite position.

— Abstain (10)
✗ No (10)
Absent (14)
✓ Yes (125)
Full text of resolution OCR extract — may contain errors
V. Resolutions adopted on the reports of the Second Committee 139 dorsed the conclusions of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination at its twenty-sixth session, concerning the United Nations special responsibility for carrying out research on global and sectoral issues, and their interrela- tionship, in order to assist Member States and the deliber- ations of the competent intergovernmental bodies, Believing in the usefulness of integrating economic and social components in the formulation of policies and pro- grammes at the national and international levels for the benefit of social and economic progress and human well- being, Stressing that the eradication of hunger and malnutri- tion and the solution of other economic and social prob- lems on the basis of industrial, agricultura! and rural de- velopment are among the objectives of the Third United Nations Development Decade, Recalling the United Nations Programme of Action for African Economic Recovery and Development 1986- 1990, adopted b6 the General Assembly at its thirteenth special session, 3 Reaffirming that each State has the sovereign and inali- enable right to choose its economic and social system in accordance with the will of its people and without outside interference, l. Takes note ofthe report ofthe Secretary-General on a unified approach to development analysis and planning, in particular the observations and conclusions contained therein; 31 2. Considers that an integrated approach to develop- ment analysis and planning, which takes into account dif- fering economic, social and political features of national economies, is one of the tools for the attainment of sus- tained social, economic and human development; 3. Invites States to support the efforts of developing countries, if they so request, to strengthen their manage- ment capacity to apply a unified approach to development analysis and comprehensive macro-economic strategies and planning, especially with regard to integrating food and agricultural production in all sectors and supporting industrialization, economic and social infrastructure and human resources development; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to take into account a unified approach to development analysis and planning when preparing economic and social studies, ongoing re- search, projections and reports, including the World Eco- nomic Survey and the Report on the World Social Situation, as well as the appraisal of the implementation of the International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade; 5. Also requests the Secretary-General to continue to make available to States the experience gained in the use of a unified approach to development analysis and planning, taking into account the fact that new ideas relating to the promotion of social and economic development are emerging. 30 Resolution S-13/2, annex. 98th plenary meeting 5 December 1986 11 A/41/323-E/1986/77 and Corr.1 and Add.1 41/175. University for Peace The General Assembly, Reca/ling its resolutions 33/109 of 18 December 1978, 34/111 of 14 December 1979 and 35/55 of 5 December 1980, Taking note of Economic and Social Council resolutions 1985/2 of 24 May 1985 and 1986/6 of 21 May 1986, Endorses Economic and Social Council resolution 1986/6. 98th plenary meeting 5 December 1986 41/180. Net transfer ofresources from developing to de- veloped countries The General Assembly, Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 1986/56 of 22 July 1986, Profoundly concerned at the net transfer of resources from developing to developed countries, which is taking place at alarming levels and accelerating rates and which is adversely affecting the development efforts of develop- ing countries and the living conditions of their people, l. Reaffirms the urgent need to take appropriate and effecti ve meas u res in the fields of money, finan ce, debt, re- source flows, trade and development, in order to halt and reverse the net transfer of resources from developing to de- veloped countries; 2. Requests the Secretary-General, in preparing the re- port called for in Economic and Social Council resolution 1986/56, also to take duly into account the interrelation- ship between the issues of money, finance, debt, resource flows, trade and development. 100th plenary meeting 8 December 1986 41/181. Assistance to the Palestinian people The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 40/170 of 17 December 1985, Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 1986/49 of 22 July 1986, Recalling further the Programme of Action for the Achievement of Palestinian Rights, adopted by the lnter- national Conference on the Question of Palestine,32 Noting that the programme of economic and social assis- tance to the Palestinian people requested in General As- sembly resolution 38/145 of 19 December 1983 has not been prepared, Noting the increasing need to provide economic and so- cial assistance to the Palestinian people, 1. Takes note ofthe report ofthe Secretary-General on assistance to the Palestinian people;33 2. Welcomes the decision of the Secretary-General to send a mission to prepare the programme of economic and social assistance to the Palestinian people requested in General Assembly resolution 38/145; 32 Report of the International Conference on the Question of Palestine, Geneva. 29 August-7 September 1983 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.83.1.21), chap. I, sect. B. 13 A/41/,l<l and C'orr.1 and Add 1 and 2.
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