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Distr. GENERAL
17 December 1981
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A/RES/36/182
17 December 1981
Industrial development co-operation
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 3201 (S-VI) and 3202 (S-VI) of 1
May 1974, containing the Declaration and the Programme of Action
on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order, 3281
(XXIX) of 12 December 1974, containing the Charter of Economic
Rights and Duties of States, and 3362 (S-VII) of 16 September
1975 on development and international economic co-operation,
Recalling also its resolution 35/56 of 5 December 1980,
containing the International Development Strategy for the Third
United Nations Development Decade, in which, inter alia, it
stressed the importance of industrialization in the development
of developing countries,
Recalling further the Lima Declaration and Plan of Action
on Industrial Development and Co-operation, adopted at the
Second General Conference of the United Nations Industrial
Development Organization, in which were laid down the main
measures and principles for industrial development and
co-operation within the framework of the establishment of the
new international economic order,
Recalling also the New Delhi Declaration and Plan of Action
on Industrialization of Developing Countries and International
Co-operation for their Industrial Development adopted at the
Third General Conference of the United Nations Industrial
Development Organization, in which a strategy was spelt out for
the further industrialization of developing countries for the
1980s and beyond, as well as a plan of action for the
restructuring of world industry within the framework of the
establishment of the new international economic order,
Endorsing the consensus reached at the fourteenth session
of the Industrial Development Board on the follow-up to the
Third General Conference of the United Nations Industrial
Development Organization,
Reaffirming General Assembly resolution 35/66 of 5 December
1980 and Economic and Social Council resolution 1981/75 of 24
July 1981 on industrial development co-operation as adopted,
Bearing in mind the Lagos Plan of Action for the
Implementation of the Monrovia Strategy for the Economic
Development of Africa,
Conscious of the role of the United Nations Industrial
Development Organization as the central co-ordinating organ
within the United Nations system for the promotion of industrial
development co-operation and for the fulfilment of the agreed
measures and the attainment of the agreed targets in both the
Lima Declaration and Plan of Action and the New Delhi
Declaration and Plan of Action,
Bearing in mind that, within the framework of the new
international economic order, far-reaching changes in the
structure of the world economy involve the restructuring of
world industry, taking fully into account the capacities and
potential of the developing countries,
Reiterating the need for a substantially increased transfer
of financial and technical resources to developing countries for
their accelerated industrialization,
Welcoming the efforts made by the United Nations Industrial
Development Organization in the field of technical assistance
and stressing the need for a further increase in the flow of
such assistance to developing countries,
Having considered the report of the Industrial Development
Board on its fifteenth session,
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Report of the Industrial Development Board at its fifteenth session
1. Takes note of the report of the Industrial Development
Board on its fifteenth session;
2. Reiterates the importance of redeployment of industrial
capacities as described in paragraph 73 of the International
Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development
Decade set forth in the annex to the General Assembly resolution
35/56 of 5 December 1980 and considers that the secretariat of
the United Nations Industrial Development Organization should
undertake to continue studies in this field;
3. Requests the secretariat of the United Nations Industrial
Development Organization to continue to improve and further
develop its programme on industrial redeployment along the lines
approved by the Industrial Development Board at its thirteenth
and fifteenth sessions, as well as by the General Assembly in
resolution 34/98 of 15 December 1979, entitled "Industrial
development co-operation and Third General Conference of the
United Nations Industrial Development Organization", and in
resolutions 35/56, on the International Development Strategy for
the Third United Nations Development Decade and 35/66 of 5
December 1980 on industrial development co-operation;
4. Strongly supports the strengthening of the System of
Consultations, in the light of experience gained and of the
relevant decisions of the Industrial Development Board, giving
particular attention to measures that could increase the
industrial capacities of developing countries, and requests the
Board to consider, at its sixteenth session, the possibility of
including consultation meetings in the biennium 1982-1983 in
addition to those listed in paragraph 171 of the report of the
Board on the work of its fifteenth session;
5. Urges further all States that have not yet done so to
ratify the new Constitution of the United Nations Industrial
Development Organization as soon as possible in order to allow
the conversion of the organization into a new specialized agency
in 1982;
6. Reiterates also the importance of facilitating the
restructuring of world industrial production through, inter
alia, the implementation of its resolution 5/66 and of
resolution 131 (V) of 3 June 1979 of the United Nations
Conference on Trade and
Development;
7. Decides to ensure that adequate resources are made
available to the United Nations Industrial Development
Organization for priority activities on the basis of the
consensus reflected in recent sessions of the Permanent
Committee of the Industrial Development Board and of the Board
itself;
8. Also urges all States, in particular the developed
countries, to contribute to the United Nations Industrial
Development Fund or to raise their contributions, taking into
account the need for maximum flexibility, with a view to
reaching the agreed desirable funding level of $50 million
annually;
9. Requests the Industrial Development Board at its sixteenth
session to continue to consider carefully the proposal of the
Executive Director for an international bank for industrial
development with a view to taking a decision on it, and requests
the Executive Director to continue his efforts on the subject in
accordance with the relevant decision of the Permanent Committee
at its sixteenth session;
10. Requests the Executive Director of the United Nations
Industrial Development Organization, at the request of the
developing countries, to increase technical co-operation and
programmes and projects in energy-related industrial technology
on the basis, inter alia, of agreements reached at the United
Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy, held
at Nairobi from 10 to 21 August 1981;
11. Also requests the Executive Director of the United Nations
Industrial Development Organization to increase technical
co-operation and the programmes and projects for the least
developed countries on the basis of their requests and as
envisaged in the Substantial New Programme of Action for the
1980s for the Least Developed Countries;
12. Decides to ensure that adequate resources shall be made
available to the United Nations Industrial Development
Organization to assist developing countries in the preparation
of the industrial programmes and projects referred to in
paragraphs 10 and 11 above;
13. Requests the Industrial Development Board at its sixteenth
session to be held in May 1982, to begin functioning as the
Preparatory Committee for the Fourth General Conference of the
United Nations Industrial Development Organization, to be
convened in 1984, and accordingly to formulate an agenda and
other proposals and submit recommendations to the General
Assembly at its thirty-seventh session;
14. Welcomes the offer of the Government of Kenya to act as
host to the Fourth General Conference of the United Nations
Industrial Development Organization;
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Industrial Development Decade for Africa
1. Takes note of the note by the Secretary-General dated 5
October 1981 on the implementation of the Industrial Development
Decade for Africa;
2. Declares the Industrial Development Decade for Africa to be
one of the most important programmes of the United Nations
Industrial Development Organization;
3. Requests the Executive Director of the United Nations
Industrial Development Organization to provide adequate
resources, including human resources for the co-ordination unit
for the Industrial Development Decade for Africa;
4. Decides to allocate adequate financial resources to assist
in the rapid industrialization of Africa within the time-frame
and scope of the Lagos Plan of Action for the Implementation of
the Monrovia Strategy for the Economic Development of Africa,
with particular reference to the least developed countries, as
from the 1982-1983 biennium;
5. Also requests the Executive Director of the United Nations
Industrial Development Organization and the Executive Secretary
of the Economic Commission for Africa to continue and intensify
contacts with the organs, organizations and bodies of the United
Nations system in order to contribute to the success of the
Industrial Development Decade for Africa, and to submit a
comprehensive report on the Industrial Development Decade for
Africa to the General Assembly at its thirty-seventh session,
through the Industrial Development Board at its sixteenth
session and the Economic and Social Council at its second
regular session of 1982.