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Developing Countries and the International Development Strategy for the Fourth
United Nations Development Decade;1
2.
Recognizes the need to strengthen the implementation of the
Declaration and the Strategy in the remaining years of the 1990s so as to
ensure that the Decade will indeed be one of accelerated development, in
particular in the developing countries, and strengthened international
economic cooperation;
3.
Calls upon Member States to identify and take follow-up actions on
those commitments and agreements that are not fully implemented and on the
constraints to implementation;
4.
Recognizes the need to provide particular support to those least
developed countries suffering from a deteriorating economic situation;
5.
Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly
at its fifty-third session a progress report on the implementation of the
Declaration and the Strategy, with particular emphasis on their relationship
with and impact on development trends, and on emerging experiences with and
consensus on development strategies;
6.
Encourages Member States to provide, as and when available,
reports and papers relevant to the implementation of the commitments and
policies agreed upon in the Declaration and the Strategy in order to assist
the Secretary-General in preparing the report called for above;
7.
Calls for the review and appraisal of the Declaration and the
Strategy to be coordinated with the follow-up work on major United Nations
conferences and the ongoing discussion on an agenda for development.
86th plenary meeting
16 December 1996
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