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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/49/104
30 January 1995
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 88 (c)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/49/728/Add.3)]
49/104.
Commodities
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolutions 45/200 of 21 December 1990, 47/185 of 22
December 1992 and 48/214 of 23 December 1993, and stressing the urgent need of
their full implementation,
Welcoming the importance attached in Agenda 21, 1/ adopted by the
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, to issues related to
commodities in the context of sustainable development,
Recalling the commitments on market access made in the Final Act of the
Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations 2/ and the importance
attached therein to increased export opportunities for developing countries,
Recognizing that in many developing countries, in particular African
countries and least developed countries, the commodity sector remains the
principal source of export revenues, employment, income and savings, an
1/
Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992, (A/CONF.151/26/Rev.1 (Vol. I and
Vol. I/Corr.1, Vol. II, Vol. III and Vol. III/Corr.1)) (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigenda), vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by
the Conference, resolution 1, annex II.
2/
See Legal Instruments Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round of
Multilateral Trade Negotiations, done at Marrakesh on 15 April 1994 (GATT
secretariat publication, Sales No. GATT/1994-7), vol. 1.
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