General Assembly

Distr. GENERAL  

8 December 1989

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                                                        A/RES/44/58
                                                        78th plenary meeting
                                                        8 December 1989
 
       National experience in promoting the co-operative movement
 
      The General Assembly,
 
      Recalling its resolutions 2459 (XXIII) of 20 December 1968, 3273 (XXIX)
 of 10 December 1974, 31/37 of 30 November 1976, 33/47 of 14 December 1978 and
 36/18 of 9 November 1981, as well as Economic and Social Council resolutions
 1983/15 of 26 May 1983, 1985/22 of 29 May 1985 and 1987/47 of 28 May 1987,
 
      Aware of the ongoing work to elaborate the international development
 strategy for the fourth United Nations development decade,
 
      Bearing in mind that co-operatives in their different forms are becoming
 an indispensable factor of economic and social development of all countries,
 especially the developing countries,
 
      Noting that co-operatives are called upon to help to ensure the fullest
 possible participation in the development process of all population groups,
 including women, youth, disabled persons and the aging and to contribute to
 the implementation of the Guiding Principles for Developmental Social Welfare
 Policies and Programmes in the Near Future,
 
      Having in mind the recent widespread reassessment by Governments of the
 status of co-operatives and their role in enhancing economic and social
 development,
 
      Convinced that the sharing among countries of national experience
 relating to the active involvement of co-operatives in the development process
 is acquiring increasing importance in the light of new trends in the approach
 to co-operatives,
 
      1.   Commends the report of the Secretary-General on national experience
 in promoting the co-operative movement;
 
      2.   Invites all States, the regional commissions and the specialized
 agencies concerned to make further efforts with a view to promoting the
 co-operative movement as an important instrument of economic and social
 development, thus contributing to the implementation of the Guiding Principles
 for Developmental Social Welfare Policies and Programmes in the Near Future;
 
      3.   Requests the Secretary-General to follow closely national experience
 in promoting co-operatives and to encourage all forms of international
 co-operation, in collaboration with interested Governments, governmental and
 non-governmental organizations, as an important part of the social development
 strategy;
 
      4.   Also requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with Member
 States and relevant organizations of the United Nations system, to prepare a
 report on the status and role of co-operatives in the light of new economic
 and social trends and to submit it, through the Economic and Social Council,
 to the General Assembly at its forty-seventh session;
 
      5.   Decides to consider the question entitled "Co-operatives and new
 trends in socio-economic development" at its forty-seventh session as a
 sub-item of the item entitled "National experience in achieving far-reaching
 social and economic changes for the purpose of social progress".