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organizations, multilateral financial institutions and development funds, the
organs, organizations and programmes of the United Nations system and all
other organizations concerned to take concrete measures to implement fully and
effectively the Programme of Action in all areas as a matter of priority;
2.
Stresses that progress in the implementation of the Programme of
Action will require effective implementation of national policies and
priorities by the least developed countries for their economic growth and
development, as well as strong and committed partnership between those
countries and their development partners;
3.
Calls upon the donor countries to fulfil their aid commitments as
contained in the Programme of Action on a priority basis and to adjust them
upwardly to reflect fully the additional resource requirements of the least
developed countries, including those added to the list of least developed
countries following the Second United Nations Conference on the Least
Developed Countries;
4.
Decides:
To convene the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting on the
(a)
Mid-term Global Review of the Implementation of the Programme of Action for
the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s in New York from 26 September to 6
October 1995, to be preceded by a one-day meeting of senior officials on 25
September 1995. In the event that any Member State offers to host this
Meeting, the Trade and Development Board, at its spring session in 1995, would
accordingly consider that offer. The Meeting shall carry out the mid-term
global review, consider new measures as necessary, and report to the General
Assembly on progress made in the implementation of the Programme of Action;
(b)
To convene one session of the Meeting of Governmental Experts of
Donor Countries and Multilateral and Bilateral Financial and Technical
Assistance Institutions with representatives of the least developed countries
in early 1995 in Geneva, for a duration of one week, in order to prepare for
the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting;
(c)
To organize regional follow-up meetings by the relevant United
Nations regional commissions, in close coordination with the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development, to improve and strengthen existing
cooperation arrangements at the regional and subregional levels and provide
appropriate inputs to the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting;
(d)
To invite the organs, organizations and programmes of the United
Nations system to undertake sectoral appraisals in their respective fields on
the implementation of the Programme of Action;
(e)
To request that an inter-agency meeting be convened in early 1995
to ensure the full mobilization and coordination of all organs, organizations
and programmes of the United Nations system as part of the preparations for
the mid-term global review;
5.
Also decides to defray the cost of participation of two
representatives from each least developed country in the High-level
Intergovernmental Meeting by the utilization of unexpended extrabudgetary
funds from the voluntary trust fund established in accordance with General
Assembly resolution 44/228 of 22 December 1989 and through the reallocation of
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